Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead and I'm your host Rob Zackney.

Join me tonight is Three Moves Head founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Good evening, everyone.

So tonight we are going to be talking about the return in three dimensions of the close

combat series via Slytherines's Close Combat the Bloody First.

For those of you haven't followed along, this marks kind of a reboot of the long-running close

combat franchise that began with Atomic Games many, many years ago under Microsoft.

Slytherine acquired the rights a number of years ago and continue to make

new close combat games that were very similar to the old ones that we know and love.

Very top-down, sprite-based war games focused on individual squads and weapons teams and

individual vehicles that tried to cover just about any

military action that happened in continental Europe during World War II.

Now we have the Bloody First, which breaks from that old presentation and introduces a new

3D engine, 3D terrain, 3D model units and characters,

and also strings it all together in a really ambitious macro campaign that lets you take part

in the military operations of the first infantry division all the way from

North Africa to Sicily to France following D-Day.

And Troy, I am curious how you think they did with bringing close combat into the modern era.

It's hard.

It's really hard.

Do you know how to evaluate this game in so many ways?

I mean, 3D tactical games are quite a few out there.

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