Panzer General: Allied Assault, Tower Bloxx Deluxe Hitting Xbox Live Arcade This Week

October 19, 2009 11:51 AM

Arriving on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday will be Petroglyph's turn-based strategy-collectible card game hybrid Panzer General: Allied Assault and a port of PC tower-building puzzler Tower Bloxx Deluxe, priced at 800 Microsoft Points ($10) apiece.

Spawn of the classic PC strategy series Panzer General, Allied Assault sports online multiplayer and such WW2 battles as Utah Beach, Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. A board game is also in the works, due to arrive in January 2010.

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Haxim

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October 19, 2009 11:58 AM

I didn't think that this was so much of an update to the Panzer General series as it is a new game, which is also being made in boardgame form.
- jtthe2nd
  
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  October 19, 2009 12:20 PM
  
  There was this ancient squad-level, turn-based WW2 strategy game for the Atari 800 called Squad Leader where you played the game on a board with pieces but calculations(line of sight, firepower, casualties, etc) were handled by the computer. I would buy it in a second if they gave it the same treatment as they did with Panzer General. Just some kind of charm in using board pieces(even virtual ones) instead of having fancy motion-captured animations.
  - Haxim
    
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    October 19, 2009 12:37 PM
    
    You should check out the Squad Leader module for the VASSAL Engine: http://www.vassalengine.org/community/index.php?option=com_vassal_modules&task=display&module_id=21
    - jtthe2nd
      
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      October 19, 2009 9:34 PM
      
      Thanks much!