France and then the invasion of the USSR, with the final campaign mission at Stalingrad. The Soviet campaign begins with the turn at Stalingrad and ends with the Battle of Berlin and the capture of the Reichstag. The Western Allied campaign begins with Operation Overlord and the Normandy landings, and includes battles such as Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. The game features realistic representations of tanks, artillery units, air forces, and infantry from Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France and Poland. It also features Yugoslav partisans fought in the German campaign when the player moves through a rebellious area of Nedić's Serbia. Reception The game received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Sales In the German market, CDV expected the game to succeed. The company planned an opening shipment of 90,000 units to retailers, and ran an advertising campaign on television with the stated goal of reaching "beyond the usual hardcore-gamer confines". The game debuted as the region's top-selling full-price computer game of June 2004, according to Media Control. It sold 66,000 units in the German market in just under two weeks, and 70,000 units after 15 days. CDV reported that the "start of sales could not have gone better". The game remained in first place on Media Control's charts for July, and claimed second place for August. In September, the game received a "Gold" certification from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD), indicating sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Ultimately, it was the German market's tenth-best-selling full-price computer game of 2004. By mid-2005, sales of the game in the region had topped 150,000 units. CDV had begun to release the game across Europe by September 2004, following the game's early success in the German market. Initial sales in Poland and France were strong; it topped the charts in both countries. This led MCV GamesMarkt to declare the game an "international hit". References External links Codename: Panzers Phase Three Community Official mod of Codename: Panzers Fans subsilvers private codename panzers forum 2004 video games CDV Software Entertainment games Embracer Group franchises Multiplayer and single-player video games Real-time tactics video games StormRegion games Video games developed in Hungary Video games set in France Video games set in Germany Video games set in Hungary Video games set in Poland Video games set in the Soviet Union Windows