Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia
2009 video game
Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia is a turn-based strategy computer game and the only release by Binary Evolution Studios, a small independent development team based in Nuremberg, Germany. The game depicts the Eastern Front theatre from 1941–1945.
The gameplay is strongly influenced by Panzer General II and the graphics are displayed in a 3D environment using the OGRE Engine.
It was developed from December 2006 to August 2009 (English version). In February 2010 a German version was released.
Gameplay
Structure and content
In Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia, the player leads divisions of Germany, Romania or Russia through single scenarios or in campaigns, a string of scenarios each representing a specific battle on the Eastern Front.
The campaigns are strictly historical.
The first campaign is a small tutorial campaign of four scenarios length.
The second campaign Operation Barbarossa consists of nine scenarios and takes place from June to December 1941.
The third campaign Great Patriotic War also contains nine scenarios and leads the player through the Russian campaign from the defence of Moscow 1941 to the conquest of Berlin in 1945.
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