Battleront.com has released “Combat Mission: Fortress Italy” which is available immediately for PC and Mac OS X operating systems for a nice $55 price tag as a digital delivery, mail delivery or both if you are into collecting things. Exclusively available directly on www.battlefront.com. However, if you buy the mail delivery version you get extra items for you to collect.
Within the mail delivery version you will receive a 100 page printed and ring-bound Game Reference Manual, the game istelf and a metal tin case (as long as supplies last) where you can store the game and potentially future games as they state, ‘Tin case holds up to 4 discs for future modules’ so there may be sequels planned already!
The latest installment within the Combat Mission series of tactical ground warfare simulations, takes players to Sicily in the year 1943, around the time of the first Allied invasion of mainland Europe in World War 2. The ‘Soft Underbelly’ of Europe was far from soft with German Veterans fighting the line against US Forces aided by Luftwaffe Field Divisions, Italian Bersaglieri troops, new tanks and weapons with unique steep rocky and arid terrain available withing Combat Mission: Fortress Italy.
In addition to all those new toys to play with (and against), you recieve 5 campaigns, which include 2 tutorial campaigns, with one specifically for beginners and one for more advanced players who just need to fresh up on their tactics and the controls. You also are challenged with over a dozen standalone missions for you to fight your way through 250 Quickbattle maps. Combat Mission: Fortress Italy also has included within it, the v2.0 game engine which has been long awaited and anticipated.
Here is just a very short list of some of the highlights of the
improved game engine within Combat Mission: Fortress Italy:
Moveable Waypoints
Target Armor Arc Command
Expanded Floating Icon Categories
“Fog of War” Floating Icons
2D Editor Map Overlay (so you can create your maps right out of
real-life satellite photos and maps)
Auto-Assemble Road/Wall/Hedge Tool (“paint” a road or wall now!)
Camera Jump to Groups
Target Briefly Command
New Rendering Shaders (check out the new screenshots!)
Bump and Normal Mapping
Improved Framerates
Pausable Realtime TCP/IP Mode
…and more!
So why not go and buy it right now so you can see if you can breach and complete Combat Mission: Fortress Italy
