Many of the maps take place inside cities (London, San Francisco, and Washington DC to be exact), and the visuals are unprecedented for a strategy game. Nothing stings like having your own units turned against you. They’re also a great way to aggravate and demoralize your opponent. Since derricks and banks are finite cash producers, POWs are pretty much required for late game financial planning. More interestingly, you can also earn an unlimited supply of loot for capturing POWs. You can gather money by building oil derricks or having infantry units commandeer the bank buildings scattered throughout the game’s many urban maps. The game uses a clean and simple unified resource model.
However, they have to switch to “Revealed” mode to gain access to more advanced equipment, at the expense of an across-the-board increase in infrastructure costs. The Consortium can pump out a ton of cheap units quickly at the beginning of a match, when in “Undercover” mode. Talon’s units are generally fast and slightly fragile, while the Army is powerful but slower and less flexible. The villainous Consortium is only available in skirmish and multiplayer modes. The campaign missions guide you through two of the game’s three factions: Task Force Talon and the US Army. The story is told via frequent cutscenes and triggered events.Įveryone else can simply ignore the mixture of live-action and pre-rendered videos, since the somewhat short but well-done single-player campaign lets you skip them, and they’re not required to figure out where to go and what to do next. administration has pulled its far-flung forces back from distant theaters to defend the homeland… which is exactly what a certain evil alliance known only as The Consortium wants. For a game that hasn’t stirred up much buzz, Act of War’s approach is surprisingly canny and harsh: it seems that San Francisco has been laid waste by a terrorist attack, and a freaked-out U.S. Platforms:Įssentially Tom Clancy’s Command & Conquer.Īct of War is a real-time strategy game involving a mix of Tom Clancy-ish depictions of terrorist attacks, United States military ops, shadowy corporations and giant conspiracies. As commander of a newly formed anti-terror military unit known as the Talon Task Force, players will need to recruit combat units, develop technologies, manage finite resources, and deploy their forces against a cunning and ruthless terror network. Through this techno-thriller story constructed by military expert and author Dale Brown, this real-time strategy experience puts players squarely in control of counterterrorist forces to defend cities of the world. and the world are experiencing unprecedented disorder. Fallout from this collapse has been devastating. Terrorist factions have taken advantage of this severe instability, striking the nation regularly without warning. A crippling energy crisis has forced gas prices past $7 a gallon and sent the American economy into a frightening tailspin.
Rated 'T' About Genre Strategy Rating Rated 'T' for Blood, Language, Violence Summary The world has changed.
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