Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation Announced

2007 August 7 - Blitzkrieg II Liberation comes with a tremendous focus on new strategic opportunities, global war and gritty realism of WWII battles. On the side of Soviet Armed Forces, US Army or German Wehrmacht you plan entire operations and lead your men into fierce action, choose reinforcements and use a wide range of new weapons in three full-blown campaigns that span the globe. A new graphics engine and significant advances over the original game place you in control of the most dramatic and bloody conflict of the past century.

Real Strategy: Decide what missions to fight, accumulate and call in any type of reinforcements, capture train stations or airfields to receive more troops by rail or secure air supremacy during the entire operation. Accomplish tactical objectives and missions to support your war efforts at a strategic level and ensure your combat efficiency in the decisive battles. Promote and assign commanders to combat units to expand your tactical advantage with over 50 unique skills and real-life abilities. Order engineers to plant TNT charges and blast passing enemy units, use linked grenades for extra damage, suppress infantry with flak fire and master other new combat techniques introduced in Blitzkrieg II.

Features:

• Plan your actions strategically, choose what missions to fight, what reinforcements to secure.
• Control of over 250 authentic WWII units and 60 types of infantry.
• Open new tactics and abilities as units grow in experience.
• Use structures and terrain for cover, destroy everything in your path, fight day and night under any climatic conditions on the ground, sea, and in the air!
• Experience intense WWII battles in a stunning full 3D interactive environment, thanks to the advanced Enigma Engine with true Line Of Sight and Line of Fire systems.
• Step, if you dare, into the fury of multiplayer action with match-making and auto-rating support at the special dedicated server.
• Create war the way you want it with the versatile Map and Mod editor

Blitzkreig 2: Liberation goes on sale 28th September 2007, for the PC.

About Ascaron Entertainment From Day One in 1989 Ascaron Entertainment has become one of the leading European "boutique" developers and Publishers of games for the PC, with many successful titles including Patrician, Port Royale, DarkStar One and SACRED.

Ascaron maintains development studios in Berlin, Gutersloh and Aachen (Germany), as well as an international department in Birmingham (UK). Ascaron currently markets its products in more than 40 countries and over 15 languages.

Ascaron Entertainment (UK) is an independent office and is highly regarded on a domestic and global scale. With a professional reputation, full-service product management, and a wealth of experience in the games industry, the UK operation manages the international releases of Ascaron's entire catalogue, whilst also providing a bespoke publishing, sales, PR and marketing function to selected affiliate label partners. Ascaron Entertainment (UK) continues to be responsible for successfully launching titles into the UK market from developers and publishers worldwide. Titles include the popular UFO, Panzers, Cossacks and Blitzkrieg series of games, as well as critically acclaimed hits such as Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle and TrackMania United.

About Nival Interactive Nival Interactive, Inc. is an international game developer of high quality computer, video and mobile games for consumers, and a proven development and asset outsourcing partner that combines U.S.-based creative and management resources with Eastern European-based development talent to deliver superior games in a low-cost, effective manner. Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA USA, Nival is the largest developer in Eastern Europe with more than 300 overseas developers in 5 development studios around the world, including the Targem Studio in Ekaterinburg and its main development studio based in Moscow, Russia.