Close Combat 4: Battle of the Bulge
Relive the infamous Battle of the Bulge as the Germans or Americans. This entry, fourth in the Close Combat series, introduces a Strategic map, features new units, and includes airstrikes.
Close Combat 4: Battle of the Bulge is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Atomic Games, released 31 December 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Close Combat 4: Battle of the Bulge is
Close Combat 4: Battle of the Bulge is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Atomic Games and released in 1999. It was published by Mindscape, Inc.. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Relive the infamous Battle of the Bulge as the Germans or Americans. This entry, fourth in the Close Combat series, introduces a Strategic map, features new units, and includes airstrikes.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Close Combat 4: Battle of the Bulge holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Close Combat 4: Battle of the Bulge launched on 31 December 1999, within three weeks of Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead and Little Fighter 2. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead, Little Fighter 2.
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