Theatre of War: Africa 1943 PC-DVD Street Date: February/March 2010 Price: £29.99 From: 1C Company/battlefront.com Age Rating: 16+ Theatre of War: Africa 1943 covers the events of 1943 in Tunisia, North Africa. Recovering from their losses after the crushing defeat and subsequent retreat after the Second Battle of El-Alamein, the German Afrika Korps - reinforced and now supported by the Italian Army - prepare once more to put steel against steel with the Allies. The Axis forces, under the command of the legendary General Erwin Rommel, have an all too brief opportunity to seize victory from the clutches of their earlier failures.

Players will lead Rommel's Afrika Korps in their last full-scale military campaign and command the English and American armies as they try to push the Axis forces out of Africa once and for all.

The stage is set, it's time again to enter the Theatre of War!

Three Campaigns

There are three campaigns, one for each side of the conflict: Germany, USA and UK. In several missions the German troops are reinforced by Italian forces. In total, there are 15 missions.

Available Campaigns:

Flaming "Torch" (U.S. forces, February 14 to 25, 1943)
Last Step to Victory (British forces, February 20 to March 6, 1943)
Last Offensive (Italo-German forces, February 14 to 25, 1943)

Features

· Real-time Strategy gameplay
· Highly detailed simulation of World War 2 combat
· House to house urban combat
· Animated hand-to-hand fighting
· Anti-air vehicles and stationary anti-aircraft mounts to control
· Smoke screens
· Different types of trenches, sand bags, road blocks and barbed wire emplacements are available (to defending units only) and can be placed by the player before the battle starts
· Advanced unit formations control
· Advanced visual spotting system accounts for observation angles and smoke screens
· Online Game Server Browser
· 15 missions in three campaigns - German, American and British - including famous battles such as Kasserine Pass, Sidi Bou Zid, Sbeitla and Tebessa.
· Mission Editor to create your own scenarios
· Interactive Tactical Battle Map
· Over 50 different vehicle types

Minimum System Requirements

· Windows XP/ Vista;
· Intel Pentium IV, 3,0 GHz;
· 1 GB RAM;
· Video card nVidia GF 6600 or ATI Radeon X800;
· 3.5 GB HDD;
· DirectX 9.0 compatible sound card;
· DirectX 9.0c;
· DVD-ROM;
· Keyboard;
· Mouse.

The game is not guaranteed to run on notebooks.

Recommended System Requirements

· Windows XP/ Vista;
· Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon64 X2;
· 2 GB RAM;
· Video card nVidia GF 8800 or ATI Radeon HD 3850;
· 3.5 GB HDD;
· SoundBlaster Audidgy 2 sound card;
· DirectX 9.0c;
· DVD-ROM;
· Keyboard;
· Mouse.

Does play in Windows 7.

Note: This title requires on-line activation to play. Once the game is activated you do not have to be connected to the Internet to play the single player campaigns.