Perhaps the most shocking thing about The Great War Western Front, Petroglyph's upcoming historical RTS game, is how fast a platoon of men can simply vanish. Dozens of soldiers can be charging across a French battlefield one moment, and in the seconds it takes for a burst of machine gun fire to ring out or an artillery barrage to land, they're gone.
In a Great War Western Front hands-on preview I joined recently, I had the chance to try out the upcoming PC game's tutorial, experiment a little with its complex campaign layer, and attempt one of the historical battles that recreate some of the clashes that defined the First World War. It's a remarkable step for Petroglyph, a studio whose RTS chops date back to 1992's Dune 2, and this early look grabbed my attention and held it.
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