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标题：Line of Attack
作者：Bruce Geryk
期刊名称：Games for Windows
印刷版ISSN：1933-6160
出版年度：2005
卷号：November 2005
出版社：Ziff Davis Media Inc.

Line of Attack

Bruce Geryk

Right now, the biggest news for war gamers is the release of Down in Flames. Dan Verssen��s outstanding board game comes to the PC courtesy of Battlefront.com (publisher of the Combat Mission series), complete with online play to supplement the campaign mode. This elegant, stylized game of air combat is playable in 15 to 20 minute sessions, and it��s a tense nail-biter all the way. Look for the full review next issue...and if you want to check out a demo that includes one playable campaign and a four-player Internet mode, point your browser to www.downinflamesonline.com.

The Steel Panthers series has been around for years, and Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles remains the definitive modern tactical-level war game. Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank (or SPMBT for short) started as a mod that added many improvements to that game but ran only on clunky MS-DOS systems. Shrapnel Games has fixed the problem with WinSPMBT, a fully Windows XP�Ccompatible version of Main Battle Tank. It may be a port of a 9-year-old title, but it��s still a respectable game��even with such obvious signs of old age. Fortunately, you can download it for free from www.shrapnelgames.com or purchase a special ��enhanced CD version�� that enables resolutions above 800x600...for the unbelievable price of $39.95. My advice: Just stick with the download. (For more war-gaming geekery, visit Bruce at grognards.1UP.com.)

Old-school war-gaming in every sense of the word.

Verdict: 3.0

PUBLISHER: Shrapnel Games DEVELOPER: Shrapnel Games GENRE: Tank Simulator ESRB RATING: NR