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Summary Of The GameIt's hard to believe that in 2005, someone somewhere had the audacity to make a real-time strategy game stuffed with live action cutscenes. It's even harder to believe that it works. Yet with Act of War: Direct Action, Atari and developer Eugen Systems have managed to turn convention on its head. Here's a real-time strategy game with the soul of a sleek techno-thriller, stitched together with live action footage that, despite the acting and budgetary limitations, will remind you of the riveting television drama 24 at times. And if that weren't enough, it's also a visually splendid, exciting, and well-paced game, to boot.
Yes, Act of War has live action cutscenes, but don't hold that against it. In fact, these live action scenes actually work.
The last time anyone attempted anything quite like Act of War was 2000's Command & Conquer Red Alert 2. But where Red Alert 2 played entirely for camp, Act of War goes for grit. The game feels very much like a Tom Clancy-penned techno-thriller. Or, to be more exact, a Dale Brown techno-thriller, as Brown, a best-selling author, worked with the French team at Eugen to create a story about a looming energy crisis (Americans pay $7 for a gallon of gas) and how an international criminal conspiracy is perpetuating it. Act of War's opening introductory movie, cleverly placed so you watch it during the lengthy installation process, lays the groundwork, but the fun starts in the game's opening missions, where you'll discover that you're in for something more than the usual real-time strategy experience.
In Act of War, you assume the role of Major Jason Richter, the commander of Task Force Talon, an elite direct action force equipped with state-of-art weaponry.
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Posted by joyfun on 8:26 PM
Platform: PC
Category: Action
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Release: 2010/02/25
Size: 1,138.0 MB
Want to find yourself in the very center of Kharkov Defence Operation as an army commander? You?ll have everything the officers had back then ? tanks, gunnery and fearless soldiers. The success of each opposing force is hanging in the balance every day. Your decisions determine who wins the Battle for Kharkov.
Great replayability and flexible AI behaviour: ?smart? AI analyses tactical movements of player and chooses the best strategy based on opponents? behaviour rather than follows scripts. It allows to play the same scenarios using different tactics as though playing with human player.
Features:
* Painstaking landscape reconstruction of Kharkov region in scope and size
* Thorough recreation of weapons, artillery and vehicles: all battle characteristics including missile trajectories or number of crew were modeled according to military archive materials and WW2 chronicles.
* Dynamic change of day & night and weather effects, affecting combat ? terrain traversal, visibility on the battlefield, disguise abilities of all forces etc.
* Destructible environment: blast and destroy almost everything, from ground terrain to houses and enemy defences. All traces of previous battles (shell-holes, broken vehicles, corpses, etc.) are left on the battlefield till the end of the scenario.
* Real ballistics: bullets and projectiles follow authentic trajectories. Proper shot longitude, number of frags and their range are calculated.
Minimum System Requirements:
Windows XP SP2 / Vista
AMD Athlon x2 4200 / Intel Pentium D 3GHz or Better
1 GB Available System Memory
2.6 GB Available Hard Drive Space
ATI Radeon x1600 256MB / Vidia GeForce 7600 256 MB video card or better
DirectX 8 compatible sound card
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Genre: Adventure
