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Based on Atomic Games’ award-winning Close Combat series, Close Combat: The Longest Day brings together the classic top-down tactical gameplay from the original series and plenty of new features, expansions, and improvements! The Longest Day remake comes with a brand new Grand Campaign that covers all the airborne and beach landings, expanded map sizes, new hand-drawn historical maps, illumination during night battles and much more!
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I once owned a game called "Squad Assault: Second Wave" which had a CC approach to gameplay as well as similar scenarios to what's now described in CC5.

If anyone is familiar w/SASW, and if so, are these games similar in scope and gameplay?
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Eric 'Mad Bunny' Young designed CC5 and SA:SW.
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Joe,

Close Combat: The Longest Day has nothing to do with Squad Assault, though it's true that Eric Young was involved in both the original CC5 and Squad Assault. This release is done by a different team and whereas Squad Assault tried to do Close Combat in 3D, this sticks to the original 2D Close Combat style.

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Then can I assume these two are very different games w/different scenarios, gameplay, etc?
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Not all that different. Similar in scope and scenarios. Gameplay similar in design, differing in look (3D v 2.5D) and feel.
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One other similarity: Both .EXE's state "This program can not be run in DOS mode". [:D]
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