Time travel has enabled a scientist to travel back into earth's history, and eliminate Hitler from the history books. As a result of this, the power balance has toppled over in Russia's favour. So instead of the allies (this time includes Germany) fighting the non-existent Nazi's , they must now deal with the new evil power, Russia.
This game comes with 2 CDs, one where you choose to play the allies and the other where you play Russia. At the start of each solo mission, you get a video clip explaining to you what you should do, and depending whether you chose to be the allies or Russia, your missions have different objectives. The 2 CD set allows two people to play against one another over a network without the need to buy a second game. Multi-player games are, however, not only limited to two players, and can also be played over a direct modem connection or over the internet.
This game requires a lot of patience and quite a bit of saving, and unless you have a lot of time on your hands, it is unlikely you would ever finish the whole game in one go. The game play remains addictive and holds your attention in such a manner that you will almost always go back to see if you can finish that level, even though you have tried and tried and tried again.
As your missions progress, so do the amount, and increasing power, of available weapons and options at your disposal.
The strongest point, as is the case with most games of this genre, is the multi-player option. To play against a real person always seems to be more fun in the long run.
Graphics are pretty good in high resolution, and most people should be familiar with the layout for these types of games by now. It is a top view of the world, with the user interface on the right, and a radar map on the top right which becomes active once you have built a radar (Unexplored areas remain darkened, the same as the fog of war in Warcraft 2).
The sound is good and fits with the gameplay. The background music is also varied and so does not become annoying, even though it would not get any grammy awards. The game interface is easy to use and only takes a few minutes to learn (I didn't even need to look at the book for this).
Even with all these positive aspects, I still found something missing, it just does not have that impact that games like Warcraft 2 had when it was released.
Another no-no is the way the video scenes have been compacted, it spoils the entire video footage when there are lines missing in the picture. Why don't they try MPEG or something similar to that. I'm glad the new DVD video CDs will clear this problem in the future.
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