Act of War: Direct Action - PC

Not so far into the future, the world’s energy resources have begun to be depleted. As oil prices soar, demonstrations by anti-globalists, environmentalists and general malcontents start to break out all over the world. In the confusion, the door has been left open for those with evil intentions to exploit the chaos.

Act of War: Direct Action is set in this depressing future, and shadowy organisations whose aims are unclear emerge from the woodwork to terrorise the people of the world’s major cities. The situation calls for a hero, and that hero is US Army Major Jason Richter, a veteran maverick commander whose loose cannon nature has seen him fall out of favour with genteel modern White House politics. For now, though, he is just what's needed the most and is put in charge of the newly formed Task Force Talon.

AoW is a real time strategy game. The player will have access to modern military technology and stuff that hasn’t quite been invented yet. On board for the project was Dale Brown, 14 times New York Times bestselling author and expert on modern military equipment and research. Highly detailed and destructible maps of London, Moscow, Washington and San Francisco are the battlefields, as you try to take terrorists alive to get to the bottom of the conspiracy, and save your wounded soldiers from certain death by evacuating them. You’ll need to do this too, because in AoW you can’t generate infinite pilots and soldiers – you have to look after them or you’ll run out. The game features very sophisticated graphics, animations and lighting. There are over 30 single player missions, 15 skirmish maps, three playable sides and 100 different units. As you’d expect from a PC RTS, there’s a multiplayer mode and a skirmish mode to practice on when you’re on your own. Act of War: Direct Action looks like another fine and imaginative RTS to us. more