Īccording to Wargamer, The Ardennes Offensive "gained a rabid following" in the years following its release as freeware. As a result, Strategic Studies Group (SSG) chose to recycle the work it had done on the sequel in an updated re-release of The Ardennes Offensive, which was launched online as freeware in December 1999. However, poor sales of The Ardennes Offensive led Strategic Simulations to abandon plans to publish the sequel. Plans for a Korsun Pocket title had existed as early as 1996, when The Ardennes Offensive was known as The Last Blitzkrieg. The Ardennes Offensive was initially planned as the first game in a new Decisive Battles of WWII series, and was set to be followed by a game about the Korsun Pocket. The Ardennes Offensive was released on June 9, 1997. Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote that the members of SSG "were already development veterans with dozens of strategy releases behind them." The Last Blitzkrieg was officially announced as The Ardennes Offensive in March 1997, as the start of a new deal between developer Strategic Studies Group (SSG) and publisher Strategic Simulations, Inc. According to Tim Carter of Computer Gaming World, "The battle has been done so many times in both cardboard and digital format that the publishers had a real problem finding a decent name that had not already been copyrighted." In November 1996, Computer Games Strategy Plus described The Last Blitzkrieg as "long awaited" the game had experienced an extended development period by that time, which the team attributed to its artificial intelligence code. The Ardennes Offensive was initially developed under the name The Last Blitzkrieg, but the title was changed during development for copyright reasons. The Ardennes Offensive is a computer wargame that recreates the Battle of the Bulge. It became the first installment in the Decisive Battles of WWII series, spawning the sequels Decisive Battles of WWII: Korsun Pocket (2003) and Battles in Normandy (2004). The Ardennes Offensive failed commercially, but was critically acclaimed. 1997 video game Decisive Battles of WWII: The Ardennes Offensiveĭecisive Battles of WWII: The Ardennes Offensive is a 1997 computer wargame developed by Strategic Studies Group (SSG) and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc.
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