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Developer(s) | Strategic Simulations |
Publisher(s) | Strategic Simulations |
Designer(s) | Gary Grigsby |
Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Amiga |
Release | 1990 |
Genre(s) | Computer wargame |
Second Front: Germany Turns East is a 1990 computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI). Designed by Gary Grigsby, it is a spiritual successor to his earlier game War in Russia .
Second Front is a grand strategy wargame that simulates the conflict between German and Soviet Russian forces during World War II, along the Eastern Front. [1]
Production of Second Front began in 1989. The game was designed by Gary Grigsby, and was his first project for the IBM PC format. [2] Second Front draws on the design of Grigsby's earlier War in Russia , updated to a grand strategy structure; [3] [4] Grigsby had at first planned it as a straight remake of War in Russia. [4] It was shown off at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in early 1990, [4] and released around the middle of that year. [5] [6]
Publication | Score |
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Games International | Graphics: 7 Gameplay: 9 [1] |
The Games Machine | 94% [7] |
According to William R. Trotter of Game Players PC Entertainment , Second Front received critical acclaim, and was "generally hailed as the most satisfying WWII Russian Front war game yet released for the PC format." [5]
Reviewing Second Front for Computer Gaming World , M. Evan Brooks wrote that Second Front was "recommended as a mandatory purchase [for] the grognard". However, he argued that its "documentation may be summed up as abysmal", which increased its learning curve. [8] Gary Bolton of Games International called it "a valuable addition to the already large array of East Front computer games." [1]
Grigsby followed Second Front with Western Front , which adapts the Second Front gameplay system to conflicts on World War II's Western Front. [5] Second Front itself was later retooled to create Gary Grigsby's War in Russia , [9] a game that Retro Gamer noted was "regarded by some as Grigsby's finest SSI outing." [2]