World at War: Stalingrad

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World at War: Stalingrad
PAL: 1995
Genre(s)Computer wargame

World at War: Stalingrad is a 1995 computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Avalon Hill. It is the second game in the World at War series, following Operation Crusader.

Stalingrad was followed by D-Day: America Invades (1995).

Gameplay

World at War: Stalingrad simulates the battle of Stalingrad including several different scenarios up to the entire campaign.

Development

The game was released on Mac computers in November 1994.[1]

Reception

World at War: Stalingrad sold fewer than 50,000 units globally. This was part of a trend for Avalon Hill games during the period; Terry Coleman of Computer Gaming World wrote in late 1998 that "no AH game in the past five years" had reached the mark.[3]

In

PC Gamer US, T. Liam McDonald called Stalingrad "as good as wargaming gets."[2] The magazine's editors later nominated Stalingrad for their 1995 "Best Wargame" award, but ultimately gave the prize to Steel Panthers.[4]

Czech magazine Score rated the game 8 out of 10.[5]

Reviews

References

  1. ^ "Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus".
  2. ^
    PC Gamer US. Archived from the original
    on March 3, 2000.
  3. ^ Coleman, Terry (November 1998). "The Buying Game". Computer Gaming World. No. 172. pp. 54, 55, 370.
  4. PC Gamer US
    . 3 (3): 64, 65, 67, 68, 71, 73–75.
  5. ^ "Stalingrad :: Score 20 page 20". www.oldgames.sk.
  6. ^ "MikroBitti". mbnet.fi (in Finnish). [dead link]

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