''Rush for Berlin'' is a

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game set in

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. In the contest for the German capital

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, the player must fight with the American, British, French, and Soviet armies. As the players approach Berlin, they must face more and more challenges, as German defense becomes more focused and stubborn. The German campaign must be unlocked by beating either the Soviet campaign or the Anglo-American Alliance (US and UK) campaign. The

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is an unlockable, albeit difficult, faction to play with as their powerful units are small in size and take a long time to replenish. The game uses officers that have special abilities that help the player. All units have special abilities such as faster reload time for snipers or tank barriers for bazooka men and

Panzerfaust The ''Panzerfaust'' (, "armour fist" or "tank fist", plural: ''Panzerfäuste'') was a development family of single-shot man-portable anti-tank systems developed by Nazi Germany during World War II. The weapons were the first single-use light an ...

soldiers.

Reception

The game received "generally favorable reviews" according to the

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Expansion pack

''Rush for Berlin: Rush for the Bomb'' is an

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for ''Rush for Berlin'', and was released in Europe on 24 April 2007. It features over-the-top, comic book-style main characters and an "

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" scenario: the Third Reich invades neutral Spain in 1944 to secure key intelligence data on American A-Bomb research.

References

External links

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