Combat★Elite: WWII Paratroopers
About the Game
Combat★Elite: WWII Paratroopers is primarily a top-down close-combat shooter with some RPG features. It can be played in single-player or two-player coop mode. The game lets players take part as a paratrooper in the allied campaign in Europe during the second world war, starting out as a private soldier from either the US 101st Airborne, the US 82nd Airborne, or the British 1st Airborne regiment. There are 40 missions strung together with a narrative, depicting the Operation Overlord (D-Day), Bastogne, Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge and beyond - ending in an fictional effort to stop the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb.
Story & Setting
A mission takes place on a series of relatively small maps, separated into 'levels', and at the level transition points players can save the game, and is also awarded skill points, new ranks and medals.
Gameplay & Core Systems
During a mission, you find medical packs, ammunition (weapon specific), and new weapons as pickups lying around, or dropped by enemies killed - the drops disappear if not picked up in time. The RPG aspect includes the initial character specialization, and between missions levels players get skill points, which can be saved for later or allocated between missions to improve various combat skills:Hand-to-Hand, Pistol, SMG, Rifle, Heavy SMG, Stealth, Medic, Grenade and 'Combat Sense'. In single-player has classic run-and-gun gameplay. You use a player-centered bird's-eye view, and you must turn the character to spin the view as you can only shoot at enemies at the top of the screen, as opposed to the sniper mode, when you use a 1st person scoped view. players are kept in the center of the screen and the view window automatically slides over the battlefield as your character moves.
Standout Features
- Combat★Elite: WWII Paratroopers is primarily a top-down close-combat shooter with some RPG features.
- It can be played in single-player or two-player coop mode.
- There are 40 missions strung together with a narrative, depicting the Operation Overlord (D-Day), Bastogne, Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge and beyond - ending in an fictional effort to stop the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb.
- During a mission, you find medical packs, ammunition (weapon specific), and new weapons as pickups lying around, or dropped by enemies killed - the drops disappear if not picked up in time.
- A mission takes place on a series of relatively small maps, separated into 'levels', and at the level transition points players can save the game, and is also awarded skill points, new ranks and medals.
- Hand-to-Hand: The RPG aspect includes the initial character specialization, and between missions levels players get skill points, which can be saved for later or allocated between missions to improve various combat skills:Hand-to-Hand, Pistol, SMG, Rifle, Heavy SMG, Stealth, Medic, Grenade and 'Combat Sense'.
- You use a player-centered bird's-eye view, and you must turn the character to spin the view as you can only shoot at enemies at the top of the screen, as opposed to the sniper mode, when you use a 1st person scoped view.
- In two-player coop mode, each player can shoot in the direction their character is facing, and do not need to rotate the view to hit the enemy.
Modes & Ways to Play
You use a player-centered bird's-eye view, and you must turn the character to spin the view as you can only shoot at enemies at the top of the screen, as opposed to the sniper mode, when you use a 1st person scoped view. In two-player coop mode, each player can shoot in the direction their character is facing, and do not need to rotate the view to hit the enemy. The screen is centered between players characters in this mode.
Player support includes Same/Split-Screen and Co-Op.
More game data: releases, identifiers & technical details
Regional release records and identifiers for Combat★Elite: WWII Paratroopers | Xbox.
Release and technical facts
| Fact | Value | Release / platform | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published by | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | United States | MobyGames |
| Developed by | BattleBorne Entertainment, Inc. | United States | MobyGames |
| Game Engine by | Snowblind Studios, Inc. | United States | MobyGames |
| Media Type | DVD-ROM | Xbox | MobyGames |
| Multiplayer Options | Same/Split-Screen | Xbox | MobyGames |
| Multiplayer Game Modes | Co-Op | Xbox | MobyGames |
| Number of Offline Players | 1-2 Players | Xbox | MobyGames |
| Miscellaneous Attributes | Xbox 360 Compatible | Xbox | MobyGames |
| Original game disc count | 1 | North America | MobyGames |
Regional releases
| Release date | Region / edition | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2005-11-21 | United States | MobyGames |
Catalog identifiers by release
| Identifier | Code | Region / edition | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| eBay Product ID | 30578252 | United States | MobyGames |
| UPC-A | 612561300019 | United States | MobyGames |
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