Airborne Troops: Countdown to D-Day
It's 48 hours before the D-day invasion of Normandy. You are John Welsh, an elite paratrooper dropped behind enemy lines to complete missions crucial to the success of the invasion. You must avoid detection…
Airborne Troops: Countdown to D-Day is a shooter developed by Widescreen Games, released 7 January 2005 on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Airborne Troops: Countdown to D-Day is
Airborne Troops: Countdown to D-Day is a shooter game developed by Widescreen Games and released in 2005. It was published by Mud Duck Productions. It is available on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
It's 48 hours before the D-day invasion of Normandy. You are John Welsh, an elite paratrooper dropped behind enemy lines to complete missions crucial to the success of the invasion. You must avoid detection, organize the resistance fighters, and destroy key targets relying only on your wits and elite training. You must succeed at all costs. Failure is not an option. And so begins Airborne Troops, where stealth, intelligence, courage, and deadly aim win the day. Explore historically authentic locations, while using realistic weapons as you draw on your skills with knives, pistols, rifles, machine guns, and even panzerschrecks to dispatch your enemies in almost a dozen levels of World War II…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Airborne Troops: Countdown to D-Day launched on 7 January 2005, within three weeks of Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Gran Turismo 4 and Cave Story.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Gran Turismo 4, Cave Story.
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