Much like the last game I have reviewed ( The Summer of the Boxers ), La Libération de Paris describes an asymmetric urban conflict. It is also a solo wargame from within the pages of a French gaming magazine— in this case, issue No.82 of Casus Belli . However, whereas The Summer of the Boxers was an entertaining, suspenseful game, La Libération de Paris was quite a bore. Yet I think it could have been a great game. I'll call it “a great failed game”. Let us see why. The game components are as follows: 6 pages of rules & tables (within the magazine) a zone-based A4 map of Paris in August 1944, with all the necessary tables and tracks counters (that you must cut and paste yourself): Free French, German, US forces, and many markers having ‘fun’ with the counters the map is quite large the finished counters & markers The solo player plays the French Forces of the Interior at the time of the Liberation of Paris . The ‘system’ plays the German forces a