''Campaign'' is a
strategy war game developed and published by
Empire Interactive
Empire Interactive was a British video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher based in London. Founded in 1987 by Ian Higgins and Simon Jeffrey, it was acquired by Silverstar Holdings in 2006 and went out of business in 2009.
His ...
. It was released in
1992
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for
MS-DOS
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and in
1993
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for the
Amiga
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and
Atari ST
The Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the Atari 8-bit family. The initial model, the Atari 520ST, had limited release in April–June 1985 and was widely available in July. It was the first pers ...
.
The game is set in
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. The player may play out scenarios like the
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive (military), offensive military campaign, campaign on the Western Front (World War II), Western Front during World War II. The battle lasted fr ...
and
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D ...
. Apart from the strategic map, a battle mode will be opened if two hostile forces venture too near each other.
The military units are rendered well in this game, and it includes a 170-page-long equipment manual which also serves as the Game's copy protection. It also includes a
map editor
In video games, a level (also referred to as a map, stage, or round in some older games) is any space available to the player during the course of completion of an objective. Video game levels generally have progressively-increasing difficulty t ...
to create scenarios or modify parts of the game.
It was followed by a sequel, ''
Campaign II
''Campaign II'' is an action strategy 3D wargame released by Empire Interactive in 1993. It is the sequel to ''Campaign''.
Plot
The game is similar to its predecessor but features campaigns from the postwar era, including Korea, Six-Day War ...
''.
Reception
''
Computer Gaming World
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'' said of ''Campaign'', "the finished product leaves much to be desired". Criticisms included the difficulty of organizing concentrated attacks, the unrealistically high frequency of night combat, the inability to retreat, and the absence of a way to exit the game or even use
Ctrl-Alt-Delete
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.
A 1993 survey in the magazine of wargames gave the game two-plus stars out of five, stating that "it is adequate on the
trategiclevel and almost an arcade rendition of the
actical.
References
External links
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CU Amiga review
1992 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
DOS games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
World War II video games
Empire Interactive games
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