World at War: Stalingrad

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World at War: Stalingrad
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Developer Atomic Games
Publisher Avalon Hill
SeriesWorld at War
Platforms DOS, Macintosh
Release
Genre 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 .

Contents

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". Archived from the original on October 25, 2022. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
  2. 1 2 McDonald, T. Liam (May 1995). "Stalingrad". PC Gamer US . Archived from the original on March 3, 2000. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  3. Coleman, Terry (November 1998). "The Buying Game". Computer Gaming World . No. 172. pp. 54, 55, 370.
  4. Editors of PC Gamer (March 1996). "The Year's Best Games". 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). Archived from the original on February 21, 2002.