

While strategy heavyweights such as Strategic Command WWII: World at War are not exactly recommended for genre beginners due to their sheer size and complexity, the Panzer Corps series is not a bad choice for newcomers either. Panzer Corps 2: Announcement trailer for the strategy sequel The more than 1,000 units of the game are all animated, the hex maps look incredibly detailed and you can also enjoy the whole thing in a 4K resolution – Panzer Corps 2 is definitely one of the most beautiful genre representatives at the moment. But what immediately stands out: Part 2 has taken a giant step forward graphically. the gameplay innovations are rather marginal, but the proven game mechanics still look well thought out and already is almost addictive – only one more round, we heard ourselves saying far too often late at night. The developers of Panzer Corps 2 are hoping for something similar, because here too, the game seems so familiar to every Panzer General veteran, i.e. Even if the playful differences from the original were hardly noticeable, many genre fans ended up spending several hundred hours with their intellectual successor. Panzer Corps (here is our test) was basically a modernized version of SSI’s Panzer General series, but due to various DLCs it was a lot more popular in terms of scope – for example, we were able to find our way to Egypt in the Africa Corps expansion Fight the Wehrmacht. Alexander Shargin and his team revived one of the most popular strategy series of the nineties almost ten years ago and with remarkable success.
