The gameplay is easy with a right click menu for each unit and suitable stats in dialogue boxes which may be used or not, as the pleasure takes you. You can create your own scenarios. As an aficionado of the old Avalon Games Squad Leader game, I can say that this is a worthy electronic successor. You may not be able to kill a tiger face to face with your 76mm AT piece, but you can kill it by hitting its lightly armoured rear at sufficiently close range. Graphics are superior to CCI and CCII and certainly are detailed enough so that those who enjoy the realism of fighting with units which are historically accurately detailed can appreciate a fine feeling of actuall fighting with a German combat engineer squad or a Soviet T34.
Sound is superb with good simulation of the sounds of weapons used.
The realistic sound of AT shells bouncing off the armour of your tank causes a realistic panic in the player to try and get his tank out of the line of fire. If you have played the previous Close Combat games, you know what to expect, with the exeption of a few new additions. These include a new waypoint feature, whitch I really enjoy, and a different layout on the main screen and on the battle screen. If you have been playing the series for a long time, the game will look alot different, but on closer inspection you will find that most of it is mostly the same. The graphics are alot better than in previous games, but not by much.