Battleground Europe - WWII Online

World War II Online: Battleground Europe, also referred to as WWIIOL:BE, WW2OL or BE is a massively multi-player online first-person shooter computer game (MMOFPS) first released June 06, 2001. The game is set in 1940 through 1943 World War II Europe. It is a combined arms war simulation otherwise known as a virtual battlefield. A player can command or crew a variety of accurately modeled aircraft, armored fighting vehicles, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft artillery, and naval vessels, or fight as a foot-soldier with a variety of infantry weapons. The game is played in real time along-side or against other players as German, British (UK) and French forces in a persistent world. Command structures and missions provide strategic and tactical layers while ranks provide a RPG layer by demonstrating leadership roles. WWIIOL online uses a 1/2 scale map of Western Europe with 30,000 km² of accurate terrain (800 m resolution satellite data). It is commonly recognized as the first MMOFPS.

WWIIOL was re-packaged and re-released in 2006 under the new name of World War II Online: Battleground Europe, and the name Battleground Europe is sometimes used to refer to the game.

Environment

• First Person Point of View in all units
• Advanced Combat Simulation with Combined arms action (Air, Sea, Ground)
• Over 600 Cities and Towns to fight for, in block by block combat through over 29,000 Buildings
• Huge zoneless map of Europe covering over 350,000 kilometers with over 4,000,000 3D trees
• Over 200 Bridges that can be destroyed and repaired
• Line of Sight over 6km
• Thousands of players fighting 24/7

Weapons

• Over 80 different vehicles and weapons available (including land air and sea types)
• Multicrew feature allows more than one player to play in the same vehicle
• Realistic Ballistics for all weapons

Strategy

• Factory production sets spawnable units in the field
• Airfields host deployed fighter or bomber units
• Deep Water Ports host deployed naval flotillas
• Supply management
• Production Management
• Technologies Research Management
• Brigade Deployment
• Attack Objectives
• Defense Objectives
• Re-supply
• Cut enemy supply
• Blow and Repair Bridges
• Strategic Map
• Early Warning Air Attack System

Communications

• Area Chat (Whisper, Normal, Shout)
• Enemy communications delivered as garbled translations
• Community Chat (French/Spanish/German etc...)
• High Command Chat
• Brigade Chat
• Private Messaging
• Squad Chat (Talk with your buddies)

RPG

• Multiple careers in 3 Different Armies(Air/Sea/Ground)
• Personal combat stats and records(Kills/Ratio/Death/Best Units and personal diary)
• Rank promotion with gameplay success
• Promotion to Command positions possible with tactical success
• Gazette Online newspaper(English Only)
• Campaign Stats
• Global Stats
• Join a virtual unit with your personal
• Get Missions and Orders by the High Command
• Lead your men and become an officer

Communities

• Weekly newsletter
• Dev News/Log
• Development screenshots
• Replies to Players questions
• Polls
• Community sites "HQ" (French, German, Italian, Spanish etc...)
• Technical Support Forum(French/English)
• Customer Support Forum (French/English)
• HQ Managers forum
• Dev team interaction via the HQs or Forum(French/English)

MORE

• Intermission between campaigns with Free Events
• Frequent updates adding gameplay enhancements and new content to the game
• Paid subscription required ($14.99/mo as low as $8.33/mo with prepay)
• Multiple payment methods(Credit Card, check, wire etc...)
• 1/3/6/12 Months subscriptions available

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System Requirements

Minimum

PC

• Windows XP
• 1.2 GHz CPU
• 512 MB of RAM
• 128 MB 3d Video Card
• 56K Modem or with Internet connection (broadband internet connection recommended)
• 1GB free hard disc space
• DirectX 9.0 or higher

Mac

• OS X (version 10.4.5 minimum) or higher
• Apple Macintosh G4 processor 1.2 GHz or higher version.
• 512MB RAM
• 128 MB video card
• 56k modem with internet connection (broadband internet connection recommended)
• 1GB free hard drive space