DESCRIPTION

First-person shooter fans and history buffs return to the "massively multiplayer" battlefields of World War II Online in Battleground Europe. According to many who played it, Cornered Rat's original 2001 U.S. release failed to live up to its ambitious design — rushed to market, according to many critics. With Beyond Blitzkrieg, however, the studio had nearly four years between releases to polish the product into something much closer to the original vision. Almost as much a sequel as an enhancement, Battleground Europe offers a virtual 350,000 square miles of war-era Western European battlefields, populated by thousands of human-controlled soldiers fighting for both the Axis and Allied powers, making use of more than 80 authentically modeled weapons and vehicles, including transports, tanks, and aircraft. As a fresh start for the WWII Online title, Battleground Europe is billed as "Volume One" in the "Virtual Battlefield Series." ~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide