Classified: France '44

Sadly, I cannot recommend this. I'm not bad by any means at these games, I've played plenty of similar games... But some of the end game missions are beyond impossible, entirely because of RNG. Some missions force you to face upwards of 20 enemies at once, while you have 4. Even if you were more powerful than them, this wouldn't be an easy task... But that's the thing. You aren't. If anything, *they* are more powerful than you. Most of your troop is 2 shot away from getting downed at all times unless you have invested everything you could into armour and health, if there's 20 enemies, they shoot 20 times per turn (often more since some enemies can make others take another turn. Even when behind full cover, it is basically impossible not to take a hit because of the sheer firepower on the enemy side, not to mention grenadiers launch grenades which cannot miss, And snipers are still very likely to hit you. And even if they *do* miss, it doesn't matter, the sheer amount of firepower will supress or break everyone. Meaning you'll either get half of the action points, or none. Every. Single. Turn. And you might be tempted to say, but why not just kill the priority targets? I wish I could. My sniper, fully built for damage, with an amazing rifle, on a crit... Can maybe take half the health of anything that isn't a standard foot soldier. Which doesn't even matter because the enemies have medics which can FULLY HEAL MULTIPLE PEOPLE EVERY 3 TURNS. It takes my entire squad's effort to kill a *single* grenadier, or machine gunner (and forget about officers, since they go down instead of dying), and that's if I'm lucky enough to hit everything. Most of my squad members hit for 2 or 3 damage! I really don't understand where that difficulty spike came from. I went from fighting almost exclusively unarmoured targets which die in one hit to everything, to every single enemy having so much armor and health, a *sticky grenade* to the face doesn't kill... In like two missions! There are strategies to deal with this, I ended up looking at a playthrough of the mission, but the problem is that my situation is wildly different from his simply because of luck. The characters you get are *random*, the weapons you get are *random*, where the gendarmerie decides to be is *random*. And I just so happen to have the gendarmerie on that one mission, which is already incredibly tough (tho it's indicated as standard) The solution to avoid getting overwhelmed is machine gunners, but I only have *one* because the game never gave me the opportunity of getting another. And how many times I can send him on missions without resting is just as RNG since it's only a 50% chance to get tired after a mission. (thanks to the camp discussion mechanic) You cannot ask the player to have specific tools available at all times, if you're making it completely RNG whether or not they have them. You just can't.

Grabbed this game on sale to finally try it out. After having to restart the tutorial mission due to a movement bug, the game was not up to a good start. After several restarts due to mission breaking bugs, I immediately refunded the game again. Last update was in 2024, so I reckon the game will not be playable in any future anymore. I do not recommend!

If you're new to the genre, go play XCOM 2 instead. OK for a few hours, then becomes unecessary tedious. RNG and enemy spawns work against you. UX / UI is clunky and hard to read.

[h1]Classified: France '44 — невдала спроба в тактику[/h1] Гра з самого початку справляє негативне враження: графіка так собі й виглядає бюджетно та застаріло, анімації якісь рвані, а інтерфейс перевантажений і незручний. Нудно стає вже під час навчання, але коли відкриваються реальні місії, відчуття не змінюються. Здається, ніби тут буде багато стелс-завдань, але насправді такий тип лише один, а все інше — звичайні перестрілки. Навіть штурм тут якийсь дивний: можна нейтралізувати безшумно тільки певну кількість супротивників, після чого все одно починається стрілянина. Загалом я очікував на щось на кшталт XCOM у сетінгу Другої світової війни, але отримав скоріше пародію, ніж якісний продукт. Гра не зовсім безнадійна і комусь може зайти, тільки от мені з самого початку стало зрозуміло, що це буде лише марна трата часу. Жодних позитивних емоцій цей проєкт не приніс.

Loved this game, Don't listen to the whiny negative reviews from people who played for an hour, If u want xcom in a ww2 setting this is for you.

This is one of those Turn Based tactical games with a nice little board game style strategic campaign overlaid on top of it. It isn't the best, it isn't even great, but it is a pretty good WWII turn based strategy game. It is a fictional macro story of people inside a very real event. (The resistance preparing for Allied invasion of WWII) Although the resistance was throughout Europe, this focuses on France. The use of the setting is well done, it feels like a good WWII game. The atmosphere is well done, the graphics, animation, and music all lend a good job in that department. Even the macro story and dialog between your people in between missions adds to it. The game is fun, but it is one that takes a bit of time to complete, and your actions matter all the way to the finish line. The strategic layer with the campaign map is unique, and fun to operate once you get a hang of it, and it is pretty intuitive. The combat layer (in missions) are well done for this game. The enemy will actually try some tactics, and more-so the further you get, and the higher the difficulty goes. The weapons, and movement is all pretty typical for this type of game, and this setting. Features like over-watch are a must and do a great job stopping opponents in their tracks. The moral system is actually implemented quite well. Not sure the gripe others have had with it, but it seemed to work great for me, but I did not play this at launch. The only real gripes I have is some audio. People voice are real low. Seagulls are extremely loud, because audio goes by camera proximation, and the perspective of the game has the birds fly right by the camera. Also, there is no in game brightness adjustment. It goes by desktop brightness. For the graphics level, which are not bad at all, it seemed slightly unoptimized at times. Those are kind of minor gripes for a turn based game, cause the game is a rather fun ride. Most levels are unique you don't really feel there is a lot of copy & paste with them. Different choices lead to different missions, some missions are either/or. It has a decent amount of replay value as well if that is your thing. If you like turn based tactical/strategy games, and WWII games, I recommend grabbing it if you can find it on sale. It can take you anywhere from 30-50 hours to actually complete it a campaign, so it isn't exactly a short game. Mine was a 50 hour campaign, but I like to take my time, enjoy things, think about my moves, and even save & reload if I need.

Loved this game at first but half way through it gets stupidly hard, I put 4 grenades and a sniper shot to put an enemy down. But for atmosphere it is great. Stop making games unnecessarily hard to make the game tedious and boring. This is the first bad review I've given.

[h3] Overall, I enjoyed my 30-hour playthrough of Classified: France '44. [/h3] I liked the WWII resistance theme and enjoyed the background, environments, progression, items, story and characters. It reminded me a bit of [i] Operation Darkness [/i] on Xbox 360: Very rough, but worth playing for those that love the WW2 theme or hardcore fans of Turn-based tactics games. I thought the stealth and morale mechanics, mission and enemy variety, customizable skill trees (similar to Gears Tactics), and spray/line-of-fire system added a good amount of depth and strategy to gameplay. I beat the game on regular/normal difficulty and used my Xbox 1 controller. It took a few missions to learn its systems and address its limitations. There are several minor/annoying bugs, clunky mechanics, and missed opportunities, but plenty of good things that make this game absolutely worth picking up on sale. For $9.99, I highly recommend it. [b] Strong 8/10. [/b]

Es muy buen juego. Entretenido y que te hace pasar las horas muertas frente a él. Es además muy realista. Os lo recomiendo, chicos!.

its good