Gaming News - December 2004
Santa Clara, CA (December 7, 2004) - O~3 Entertainment today announced
that D-Day has shipped to retail stores throughout North America.
From O~3:
Produced by Monte Cristo and developed by Digital Reality, D-Day has been
designated by the "Normandie Mémoire" committee as the official game for the
60th anniversary commemoration of the Normandy landings, and contains a
documentary base with the strategic charts of the battles, films from historical
archives as well as veterans' and local inhabitants' testimonies, some of which
has not been available before.
"D-Day is a great game for history buffs and tactical strategy fans alike," said
Bill Gardner, president and CEO of O~3 Entertainment. "The battles are recreated
as accurately as is possible in a computer game, and the extras are really
spectacular."
Offering a wealth of single-player and multiplayer modes, D-Day drops players
into the role of World War II Allied forces in the final drive to liberate
Europe. Throughout three campaigns and 12 missions in single player mode,
players must successfully plan and execute the turning points in the liberation
of Europe: the first hours of the beach landing at Omaha Beach, the paratrooper
attack on Sainte Mère Eglise, the taking of the Cherbourg harbor, operation
Cobra, the battle of the Falaise pocket, and the liberation of Normandy in
August 1944. During the campaigns, players can call in the help of resistant
forces to recon the landing areas, take advantage of the Allies' air power
(bomber, glider, paratroopers), and stop the German forces' counter attacks.
D-Day features over 60 historically accurate units, including rifleman,
paratroopers, artillery, tanks, transports, and air support. The multiplayer
mode uses GameSpy's online Matchmaking network, allowing up to 8 players to play
simultaneously on 12 different maps using 3 different modes. An editor allows
players to create their own multiplayer maps.
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