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action game
The Train: Escape to Normandy
By Artech Digital Entertainment, released 1 Jan 1988
- Microsoft Windows
- ZX Spectrum
- Commodore 64
- DOS
- Amstrad CPC
What it is
The Train: Escape to Normandy is an action game from Artech Digital Entertainment, released in 1988 and available on Windows, DOS, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. Set in August 1944, it casts you as a French Resistance leader trying to capture an armored German train carrying looted art and get it through enemy lines to an Allied rendezvous in Normandy. The journey involves operating a WWII locomotive and fighting enemy forces on land, in the air and at sea. Stations, bridges and crossings may bring traps, ambushes or sabotage, while pursuing planes and gunboats threaten the train. Steam lists Action and Simulation genres, as well as single-player and Family Sharing. The Steam release date is August 7, 2020, and its listed Steam platform is Windows. The game’s objective centers on commandeering the train and preventing its cargo from reaching Berlin.
What players like, and what they don't
- Resistance mission to capture an armored train
- Combat spans land, air and sea
- Available across five listed platforms
- Single-player mode
- Steam lists Windows only
- Single-player only
Who it suits
It suits players interested in action built around a wartime train journey and a Resistance mission. Its listed single-player mode fits those playing alone.
The Train: Escape to Normandy puts a train and its cargo at the center of a WWII action mission. Its route includes enemy attacks and hazards at crossings, bridges and stations.
