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Freedom Force Take On Third Reich

Posted by simoniker on from the damn-you-fuhrer dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for their preview of Irrational's PC RPG sequel, Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich. According to the first look at this previously unannounced title, a follow-up to the popular tactical role-playing game which featured "a stable of superheroes based on classic 1960s Silver Age comics", this sequel boasts an enhanced 3D engine and Nazi tentacle-bots, as "...the Freedom Force team must travel back in time to World War II to battle a new supervillain named Blitzkrieg, who is the defender of the Reich."

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  1. Smash the Kaiser! oh wait, wrong war. by August_zero · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sort of cute really, the first freedom force is a great game that didn't get the sales that the accolades should have predicted. i am glad that a sequel is in the works, good games deserve good sequels.

    I can't help but think though, are they giving it the WW2 spin because they think it might be interesting, or is it because WW2 games are the "in" thing right now?

    Thats a rhetorical question by the way.

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  2. Interesting name... by rekkanoryo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think the villian's name is a rather interesting choice. After all, Blitzkrieg ("lightning war" if memory serves) was the name given to the German air force's battle tactics--fly over, strike fast and hard to eliminate all the targets, and fly out. So is the supervillian supposed to be lightning-fast too?

    1. Re:Interesting name... by Babbster · · Score: 2, Informative

      Actually, it wasn't an air force tactic per se (though it did involve aircraft), but rather a combined force tactic developed by Hans Guderian in order to take advantage of the then newly developed battle tanks. You can find a bit more information here.