Dr Who has a Police call box, Marty McFly had a DeLorean and it would seem with the help of DAS Entertainment I have my own time machine in the shape of an Optical Disc.

At its heart Squad Assault is (yet another) WW2 RTS game. However (and maybe this is just me) once the game was up and running I had a feeling of being here and doing it all before – you see this game seems to look and feel as if it’s just combined the Close Combat games (from the end of the 1990s) and the Combat Mission games (which I reviewed going back 12 months or so) – and therein lies the problem.

It’s not that Squad Assault is a terrible game, but the WW2 RTS genre is already overfull and Squad Assault really does seem to other nothing new. For the graphics whores out there you will probably not even get as far as selecting the first batch of units. The visuals are nothing more than serviceable and not even as good as the last Combat Mission game. The strategy purists may be yelling at this point that the graphics don’t matter and they are correct, but only if the rest of the game works.