NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT?An XCOM-like tactics game set in the days leading up to the D-Day landings in 1944
EXPECT TO PAY£35
DEVELOPERAbsolutely Games
PUBLISHERTeam17, Fireshine Games
REVIEWED ONAMD Ryzen 7 5800H, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
MULTIPLAYERNo
LINK team17.com/games/classified-france-44
For me, the best battles in turn-based tactics games are the ones where the momentum can shift on one perfectly executed turn; those pivotal moments when you harness the abilities that you maybe forgot even existed when things were going smoothly, but suddenly justify their existence in one audacious sequence of manoeuvres that imbue the orderly grid-based combat with the cinematic splendour of backs-to-the-wall movies.
Here’s a case in point in Absolutely Games’ World War II -like . My merry band of spec-ops resistance fighter archetypes – the French woman with a beret, the bourbon-loving American, the ‘chin up, cheerio’ Brit, you get the picture – have just planted several demolition charges
