

Close Combat III: The Russian Front 1998
Developed by Atomic Games
- Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Historical
Close Combat III is the third game in the venerable Close Combat series which takes us to the Russian Front in command of either the German Whermacht or Soviet Red Army, in some of the most realistic combat ever seen in a RTS.
Real Time Strategy (RTS)SimulatorStrategyHistoricalworld war ii - ww2militaryrealismPC (Microsoft Windows)
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Earnest, plot-driven, grave and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Developer
- Atomic Games
- Publisher
- Microsoft
- Released
- December 31, 1998
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
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