Review Reprise: WWII Battle Tanks – T-34 vs. Tiger

I’ve written hundreds of reviews, previews, and retrospectives during my twenty-odd years as a games inspector. As many of these appeared in the British version of PC Gamer magazine and nowhere else, now and again something from my archive may appear as one of THC’s daily posts. On reflection, WWII Battle Tanks – T-34 vs. Tiger was a tad unfortunate. It landed on my desk not long after Steel Fury, and got fairly short shrift (49%) as a result. Perhaps I owe it a re-review. In the meantime here’s my one-page 2007 take.

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Bounce the Bogen: Turn 8

The warriors that traverse the rail bridge during Turn 8 are all sprinting Tommy infantrymen. The munitions that whip across its mossy stonework are far more diverse. Speeding 9mm, .303, .50 cal, 20mm, 40mm, and 95mm rounds ensure the south-west corner of the map is a dangerous place to be this sixty.

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There’s more Channel than history in The History Channel: Battle of Britain

Sometime in the early Noughties a bright spark at Activision realised flogging (mostly) mediocre PC games at budget prices would be slightly easier if the boxes the mediocrities came in were emblazoned with ‘The History Channel’. By chance one of the HC range was actually ace. Spoiler alert, the solitary corker wasn’t re-released-this-week The History Channel: Battle of Britain – World War II 1940.

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Friday Foxer #246

Every Friday, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers. All are welcome to participate.

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V2Z

V is for Very well received Fulcrum. It’s not often a new DCS flyable gets a reception as warm as the one the new MiG-29A has received. Perusing the forums, praise of the flight model and framerate impact is particularly easy to find. Evidently, although cheaper faux Fulcrums are available, finer facsimiles are not.

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Q2U

Q is for Quick trade card. The collectible shown below was disgorged by a coin-operated railway station weighing machine some time in the 1950s. Small compared to most cigarette and tea cards, the 24 cards in the British Automatic Company’s ‘Famous Trains of the World’ set measure 28mm x 53mm and came defaced with a somewhat optimistic entreaty.

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L2P

L is for Lacking linesmen. Football Referee Simulator almost earned itself a Police Week article. Until Referee Simulator and Football Referee Simulator 26 arrive, Vladimir Pilashkun’s 2D effort has the ref sim genre pretty much to itself. Because you don’t get assistant referees for your seventy new pence, some of the trickiest decisions in FRS relate to throw-ins and offsides.

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