CRUSADE IN EUROPE C64 TAPE

CRUSADE IN EUROPE C64 TAPE

Design: Sid Meier

Publisher: MicroProse

Genre: Turn-Based Wargame

Difficulty: Easy

Crusade in Europe and Decision in the Desert marked Sid's departure from his more complex designs such as NATO Division Commander. Despite the fact that the manuals are too long (everyone knows that real gamers demand thorough manuals, then don't read them), these two titles are actually beer-and-pretzels games that have aged nicely. Problem is, if you don't have access to a Commodore 64 emulator, you can't play them (assuming you could stomach the ancient, cartoonish graphics).

The games offered World War II conflict on an easily accessible scale, with minimal worries about logistics and other nonentertaining items. Basically, you accepted your role as Eisenhower or Montgomery and cut to the chase. The interfaces wouldn't stand up to the Warcraft IIs of today, but they were fairly clean for the time. The campaigns were interesting, and the computer opponents of both games put up a good fight (especially when you take into account the limitations of coding AI in 64K memory).

Both games sold pretty well, but neither was a breakout hit.

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