CM Battles for Normandy : édition collector, screenshots et date de sortie

Battlefront annonce le début des précommandes pour Combat Mission Battles for Normandy. On connait donc enfin la date de sortie du jeu, qui est fixée à fin avril, sur PC et sur Mac. Battlefront présente aussi l’édition limitée du jeu, dont le joli coffret métallique Steelbook permettra de ranger quatre CD (un emplacement pour le jeu, trois autres pour les modules à venir) et un manuel de 200 pages. Par la même occasion voici huit nouvelles images et en prime vous trouverez aussi sur le site officiel cinq fonds d’écrans (représentant simplement des véhicules et leurs caractéristiques).

Notez que vous trouverez ces prochains mois de plus amples informations sur ce jeu très attendu sur notre site Combat Mission, site dédié qui vient d’ailleurs de bénéficier d’un petit lifting pour améliorer la présentation générale, entre autre chose.

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Thursday, 10 March 2011

History is being made today! Battlefront.com is thrilled to announce that pre-orders are now open for our new flagship wargame Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy. What started 11 years ago with the release of multiple Wargame of the Year « Combat Mission Beyond Overlord » (still on PC Gamer’s list of Best Games of All Time) is now coming full circle, and finally returning to the beaches and bocage fields of Normandy, France, 1944.

ImageCombat Mission: Battle for Normandy (CM:BN) faithfully recreates the experience of tactical land warfare in Western France during World War Two. Using the unique Turn-Based (WeGo)/Real-Time hybrid game system of our proprietary CMx2 battle engine, the first installment in this new series covers the three months after the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944, from Operation Overlord in June through the Cobra Breakout in August.

Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy is now available for pre-order in a special SteelBook(TM) Limited Collector Edition! The metal SteelBook(TM) is a high-quality retail-style package, fitting up to 4 discs inside (the game disc as well as up to three future modules) as well as the full printed 200(!) page manual. If you want to find out more about this exclusive box, check out  the Interactive Online Viewer (*Windows only, Internet Explorer required) courtesy of Scanavo, or the SteelBox(TM) YouTube video.

This SteelBook(TM) edition is limited, and only available as long as supplies last. Orders will be fulfilled in the order they are placed.

If you pre-order now for only $60 plus S&H, you secure your SteelBook(TM) Limited Collector Edition copy today!

But wait, there is more:

* you will be able to also download the game immediately on release day. So you get both the digital download right away AND the collector’s box by mail.
* unbelievably, you even save $5 on this pre-order deal in comparison to purchasing a Download&Mail Delivery for $65 + S&H after release.

Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy is scheduled for release around the end of April, 2011. Once released, it will be available as a digital download ($55), via mail ($55 + S&H) and both download & mail package ($65 + S&H).

Mac users! The game will be available for both the PC platform as well as Mac OS X. Today, we are launching pre-orders for the PC version only! If you are interested in purchasing the Mac OS X version, please wait until we open pre-orders separately for it in the next weeks. The Mac OS X version is currently scheduled to be released not too long after the PC version.

And in order to shorten the wait for R(elease)-Day, here’s something to oogle at: in the CM:BN media section, you’ll find 5 sets of desktop wallpapers and a new in-game gallery with 8 brand new screenshots! Enjoy!