$14.99Codename: Panzers, Phase Two Desert nights, falling buildings
Command tanks, infantry and aircraft across three World War II campaigns, from the Sahara to the Alps.
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Every mission works with company
Every mission in the game supports cooperative and competitive play, and the remaster rebuilt the online side from the ground up, including NAT traversal, so getting a match running is not a project of its own. That makes for easy sessions: pick a mission, agree who takes the left flank, and go. You can also turn on your friends instead, since the same maps support competitive play. Whether you are coordinating a push through a mountain pass or arguing over who gets the artillery, the structure is the same: join up, divide the units, start the round.
Three sides of the same war
Three campaigns, three very different seats at the table. Play the American Allies, the German-Italian Axis, or the Yugoslav resistance, each with its own story told through staged cutscenes before every mission. The battlegrounds shift with the sides: the sweltering Sahara, the Mediterranean coast, the heights of the Italian Alps and the Balkans. The campaigns are harder than the first game's, and the optional and secret objectives ask for real effort, but the story carries you through. New and familiar faces turn up along the way, and each side gets its own units, tanks and guns.
Night falls, and so does your cover
The day-night cycle is not decoration here. After dark, visibility drops and stealth becomes a weapon: night missions are built around sneaking, searching and destroying before the enemy knows you arrived. Headlights are a real decision. Turn them on and you see farther; turn them off and you are harder to spot, and so is everyone else. You can spend the daylight hours positioning for the upper hand, then use the dark to launch an attack the enemy never saw coming. Sand, smoke and burning wrecks all shape what you can and cannot see.
