Reception
Eastern Front received critical praise from contemporary magazines. Jerry White gave it a rating of 9.3 out of 10 in A.N.A.L.O.G. magazine, calling it "truly magnificent". InfoWorld rated it "Excellent" overall in December 1981, and later referred to it as one of "... the deepest computer games around." Creative Computing stated it was "one of the very best war games available", and awarded it Game-of-the-Year in 1981. Later reviews often use terms like "groundbreaking", "seminal" and "brilliant".
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