Finally a good RTS with action and hi-tech armies of our days.
times with empires like rome and greek.
It's not common for pc games companies to make games about our times and the conflicts that sorruond us. They keep staying with the winning formula of ww2 when starting to develop new game. Don't take it the wrong way, I love RTS games on ww2 and many more are welcome but I too want to play in various battlefields and diffrent times with diffrent weapons and technology.
It's nice for a change to take an abrams tank and support him with F-18 and go to the battle against modern armies (although it's mostly terrorist).
Act of War: Direct action, bring us an improved or very improved version of C&C generlas with real weapons and tech with a very good story line with many movies.
The creator of this game didn't let down the plot which can improve the gameplay in many levels. For this job they recruit real actors (not samuel jacksn but still) to play in the in game movies shown during the levels and between. I have to say they did a good job and made the game richer and more fun to play with intresting story.
The story line didn't take too much intention from the developers and they put much invensment in the gameplay as wel.
AoW is a old fashion RTS game like C&C were you can build bases and lead the attack. In AoW you will be given most of the levels a base were you can build tanks and other armourd viechels train elite soldiers and improve your technolgy even more. In order to collect money you need to build a oil factory in stratigicly positions to bring money to your base.
The oil is a important factor in this game and the foundation of the story, and you will have to reach it to gain victory.
The units are similiar to our modern units and look and act as well. But there are also couple of hi-tech units that you maybe saw on matrix film.
Units AI is ok but not as good as games like Soldiers and rome.
The enemy is powerful with advanced weapons but not as difficult to beat.
Graphics in game is from the best there is in RTS and the game looks great a lot thanks to the explosions. The units are detaild and the enviormant is another plus to this game.
In sound department this game will not let you down. Although there isn't much of music during the game, the explosions are nice and the actors did a good job in viocing there characters.
I will recomanded this game to every RTS fun that still play C&C in his parents basement. This game can spend you many hours with it's domastic singlplayler multiplayer and skirmish maps.