Classified: France '44
Command an elite team of allied special operators in Nazi-occupied France wreaking havoc in the run up to D-Day in this ambitious turn-based tactics game. Take on the might of Germany's war machine and launch daring raids in occupied territory. Can you do enough to ensure Allied victory?
Classified: France '44 is a turn-based combat, singleplayer and turn-based tactics game
developed by Absolutely Games
and published by Team17.
Released on March 05th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 591 reviews of which 455 were positive and 136 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.24€ on Steam and has a 45% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7850, 2 GB or Intel Arc A380, 4 GB
- Storage: 35 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Low 1080p @ 30 FPS
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It's a beautiful told WW2 story/game on D-Day. the campaign is quite short, about 20 hours. It has single missions to play alongside that, but the focus is on the campaign. Gameplay has some interesting mechanics (revolving around morale mostly) which i loved. Even with full price I would recommend it, especially for turn-based strategy gamers. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☑ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10
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"It's Dad-Com," I said. "What's that?" "It's X-Com for dads." "What is?" "This game, Classified France '44. Not a great title, I guess. But like, you know how dads are obsessed with World War Two? And they like simpler, slower things? A little less flash, you know? A game where they can take their time, not aggravate their carpal tunnel. Maybe a game that throws WW2 facts and stories at them that they can breathlessly tell their family about at dinner. And it's basically just X-Com. So, Dad-Com." "Who the hell are you? Get away from me." But I'm already gone. Evac'd the second my feet hit the zone.
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Great turn-based tactical combat game. Lots of fun. Lots of weapons. Some silly bonuses from clothing, but the bonuses gotta come from somewhere. Lame, lame, lame DLC and season pass content. Each expansion just adds two missions that have absolutely nothing to do with the campaign. Just two missions completely separate from anything else. Ho hum . . . And a couple weapons added to the campaign that you get right away, no waiting, just here are new weapons to use. Would have been nice if they were integrated into the campaign progression somehow. But no, pay for DLC, get overpowered weapons. Just a disappointing DLC structure altogether. But the main campaign is a lot of fun. At least I think it is.
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As a devoted x-com fan I went into this with low expectations in that endless search to find a game that can scratch that, nearly unattainable, x-com itch. To my surprise, this game drew me in with solid game-play that did not reinvent the wheel but went with tried and true factors to make this a game I actually found myself wanting to come back to more and more. Definitely recommend for a solid turn-based squad tactical game within a realistic setting.
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Alright, this game is.. it's okay. I just finished one playthrough on normal-difficulty ironman. It took me 21 hours, I now have 60% of the achievements, and I won a major campaign victory (but not quite the greatest possible victory, I wonder what that looks like?). Everyone talks about how it's XCOM in WWII but let's ignore all that and talk about how it's not XCOM. First, XCOM2 (like Rimworld) has good random generation figured out and leads you to fill in gaps with your own storytelling. Somewhere along the line I realized this game is very handcrafted in comparison, with focus on replayability. (I don't plan on replaying it myself, but I still appreciate that!) There are 12 named, written, voiced, and modeled/drawn soldiers, of which you can recruit 8 per campaign and deploy 4 per mission. The missions themselves must all be designed by people, not generated, and therefore finite - a few felt very deliberate and I found myself recognizing more and more of the locations shown in loading screens. Soldiers cannot die. If you let them hit 0 HP, you're punished with reduced max HP, and if you let the horror of combat turn them into a frozen huddled mass, they'll break down under pressure more quickly next time. This sort of has this unfortunate side effect where, if a soldier is innately weaker mentally or physically, that's the side of them most likely to give, deepening that same flaw/counter in future missions, snowballing into more injuries or mental breaks... I can't tell if that's intentional game design? These permanent character debuffs stack up and can be fixed by taking a slap on the wrist in the management side of the game (some resources spent and two missions out to heal). The fact I played on ironman at all is a testament to the stability of the game - that beats out XCOM for sure. This thing just came out! No crashes!! Very rarely did I feel cheated by the game: indicators worked nearly flawlessly, and a couple times I was warned and given a chance to abort before breaking stealth (like if I clicked on a space that looked clear, but spotted someone watching that area on the walk over). The only time I felt dumb and wanted to reload because of BS or unclear indicators was because it looks like you can hide behind adjacent bushes, like low cover, but you cannot, you must hide inside. They just look over the bush and start shooting. I like the system of movement and actions, it's unique, just be prepared to do a lot of quick 1-16 arithmetic. In D&D and Fire Emblem, you get to move some as part of your turn, it's free. In XCOM you have to spend one of your two actions to move at all, which always feels bad if you just need to shuffle a little to the side. In this game (F44? Is there an acronym?), everyone can move 12+/-a few spaces, an inch at a time if you want, in any order to swap places easily if you want. Doing other things like reloading, opening doors, or healing friends costs some of that movement. Be sure to save enough to shoot or overwatch, otherwise you feel stupid. There isn't an indicator of when you'll accidentally walk too far to shoot. D&D progression is very horizontal - tiny stat bumps are hard to get but new abilities flow freely. Fire Emblem and RuneScape progression is very vertical - you get the next level or tier of thing and some numbers go up but fundamentals don't change. XCOM has mostly horizontal progression with soldier abilities, but vertical progression with weapons and armor, just in distinctively big chunks - getting laser weapons early isn't an incremental upgrade, that's a pretty big deal! This game feels very incrementally vertical. There are lots of cool abilities in a large tree with 4 different capstones to pursue per class, but that tree is packed with more generic stat-boosting upgrades. 2 max health, 1 damage reduction, 1 more damage with this weapon. Meanwhile, enemies start stacking up armor too, much more than my own guys by the end. The end result was.. mostly, fighting each type of enemy felt about the same throughout the whole game. Was it expertly balanced? Was it tracking my strength and scaling up to match? In both cases, why is this better than just keeping numbers the same? An arms race to the top to reward good management, maybe, but the curve seemed both not harsh and yet impossible to get ahead of. Part of those incremental upgrades come with gear, which uses the lootbox/battle royale color-tier-scheme of rarity and goodness that's become a thing the past several years. It's weird to see here, but I think it helps with keeping so many little numbers digestible at a glance. You find and buy bits soldiers can equip based on nationality and gender, all with minor stat increases that all add up to so eloquently have no net effect after enemies get more buffs, unless some poor soul's still got an early-game gun that can hardly hit through armor now. The music is not enough. I had to mute it eventually and put my own on. It's fine, it fits, I don't think I could hum a single song from it right now, and there needed to be way more variety. The characters are interesting. There's, like, random Fire-Emblem-style support conversations? One happens between a seemingly-random pair of camp members in-between each mission. Keeps characters from becoming too one-note by hearing some banter and learning some random and irrelevant things about their likes, hopes, and fears. Finally, that led me to my last question, which I still have: are these real people? At some point I started googling, "Tom King WW2," seemingly nothing. Some Americans, a book published in 2017. I figured they're just historical fiction characters and pushed it out of mind until I beat the game and it gave me Fire-Emblem-style epilogue cards at the end, including each character's ultimate fate and year of death. They were all weirdly specific: some died in war in like the 50s, some lived til the late 2000s. Are these characterizations and voices an homage to specific people? Was Willard really involved in operation market garden? I would like to know, so, if you do, um, tell me. It's a weird way to be immortalized, to have words and sass put in your mouth, but so many died to have all forgotten besides their name... I think I would like it, at least. But they're probably just characters. Thanks for reading, this took like an hour to write, and for what? If you made it this far, I guess for you. Yeah, you. Have a nice one now.
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Online players
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Developer
Absolutely Games
Publisher
Team17
Release
05 Mar 2024
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