T-72 Balkans On Fire
Maybethis has happened to you, too. While playing Battlefield Vietnam orDangerous Waters, you found it necessary to refer to the manual for acertain feature. Manuals have a habit of escaping to a shelf or drawerso a little searching is required. And there amid the dust and cobwebslies your old copy of Steel Beasts or Armored Fist. Ah, the memories ofthe glory days of tanksims, when game companies were releasing newtitles several times a year.
Has it really been nearly six years sinceSteel Beasts and Panzer Elite were new sims? What a dry spell!Fortunately, Battlefront is preparing to unleash a successor that shouldease your pain.T-72 takes place during the Yugoslavian civil warsfrom 1991 to 1995.You, the player, are a Russian volunteer tankcommander, supplied with Russian built tanks; the T-34/85,T-55A and theT-72B.Your opponents include the M50 'Super Sherman', Leopard 1A4,SU-100 assault gun and the BRDM-2 APC, and just for fun, the Mi-8assault Helicopter. During game play I had to navigate and fight inforests, river crossings, hills and valleys plus urban areas. The betaprovided a campaign of 18 linked missions, 5 single missions plus 2training missions which are detailed and informative.Youcan play as the driver, gunner or commander and the AI crew handleswhatever station you are not managing. In any role you can pass onorders and instructions to the other two AI crew. For example, as thegunner you can tell the driver to go to a waypoint, instruct thecommander to scan for targets. If he finds one, he will tell you.
Youcan order the driver to stop and face the target or find a hull-downposition. It makes playing as any one role very easy and fun.Damage modeling is extensive. All types of gear can beknocked out and you can suffer losing a track, immobilizing your tank.Under some conditions, you may be able to repair the track. Trees inforests can be knocked down but recklessly ramming trees can tear upyour tank and have your Russian crew swearing at you.Game engine:The graphics,while not up to Half-Life 2 standards, are sufficient for a tanksim. Theterrain is varied; hilly mountainous regions strewn with rockgorges and rolling open spaces, rolling plains, and moderately denseforests. From the driver's position you can see individual flowers andgrass sway with the breeze. The weather and day and night arerepresented in good detail, complete with rain drops on the visionblocks.The AI is smart, able to adapt to your tactics or lack ofof them.
Your AI crew is good without having to be told what to do. Withall settings maxed out on both my systems I had no visible frame rateloss or stuttering of sounds. After three weeks of play I did not haveone crash to desktop or lock up, although a few times the menu load uptook awhile after extended play.Gameplay:One of the first missions in the campaign is to go from point A to pointB.simple.
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I hit the starter, and after much grinding and whirring theT-34/85 came to life, releasing the brakes and goosing the throttle weproceeded down the road and up the mountain. The T-34/85 shifts nice butsteers like a real lateral system.all over the road till I got used toit. Gauges reflect my speed and RPM's, and the sounds from the tank lullme into pure enjoyment of a nice ride in the country side. Thatis, until I topped the crest and a 'Super Sherman' ended my joyride!Anice feature is when you're KIA, the outside view shows who killedyou.so back to the motor pool and a change of tactics. The next time Itried to climb the hill from a different side which I found was toosteep. While in low gear ants walk faster.
Cutting across the slope Ifind myself looking far down the valley. APC with troops runningaround!! Jumping to the gunners seat I zero in and miss.and a wellhidden RPG team sent me back to get a new tank. After several more triesI finally toasted the M-50, co-ax'd the troops and made a nice bonfireof the APC. Later on I got a rebuilt T-55a. The T-55 is a real monsterto ride in, big and robust but surprisingly fast on the road. Havingbeen in a T-55 I can honestly say it looks like one inside and out, noflashy paint or unnecessary things to look at.Duringthe rest of the missions I played I found if you go too fast down ahill, your crew jumps to safety.
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Big rocks will turn you over. Alwaysremember to turn on all electrical systems and never get tunnel visionwhile engaging the enemy, someone will flank you.
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Tank gunnery is veryrealistic, complete with a great main gun sound with all the clankingand banging of a turret in combat mode. The Russian style sights taketime to get used to but later on in the T-72 you get to really do somepinpoint first shot killing of tanks.if you live long enough to marvelat your handy work.
In the 'Kill the arms dealer' mission, it took a fewhours of rethinking tactics to get to the objective, let alone counterthe tank assault that always seemed to happen right when I knew I hadout maneuvered them. Finally, it's worth commenting that the ingamevoices of your crew are genuine Russian and funny as hell. If your tanktakes a hit, you can hear the driver curse and exclaim, 'I've had itwith this tank!'
Conclusion:Afterthree weeks I'm still playing it and getting ambushed by large caliberAT-guns or forgetting to hang out with my infantry support.
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