Wargame: European Escalation

Description

Wargame: European Escalation is a real-time strategy game set in an alternate history in which World War III was triggered in 1975. The campaign consists of loosely linked missions which tell the course of war. The player controlled war party changes multiple times during the campaign.

The game inherits the zooming technology from Eugen System's previous R.U.S.E.: The Art of Deception which allows to zoom steplessly from a near viewpoint to a bird's eye view for a better overview. However, the battles focus on small conflicts with less units than in R.U.S.E. and (the already downsized) base building was removed. As usually, the player commands a variety of different units (no airplanes) which have certain advantages and disadvantages against other unit types. Other things to keep in mind are supply lines, line of sight or morale.

While playing, the player will receive two kinds of points: command stars and deployment points. Command stars are earned by solving mission objectives and are used to unlock new units (those unlocks apply not only to single-player, but also to skirmishes and multiplayer). Deployment points are the reward for controlling control zones and can be used to call reinforcements into certain sectors. Additionally every unit earns experience which, over time, improves its statistic values.

In multiplayer mode, each team gets the same amount of initial command points which then is evenly distributed to each team member. Those points are then used to buy the initial units. This has two effects: there can be matches between uneven teams (because the whole amount of victory points is still the same) and tam members can divide the work, e.g. one player controls all the tanks and another one the helicopters. To determine the winner team, the game uses a victory points approach: every killed enemy unit gives points; the amount depends on how powerful the unit was. Players can set to winning conditions: the game either ends after a certain amount of time or when a team reaches a certain amount of points.

Part of the Following Group

• World War III games

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The Press Says

PC PowerPlay Australia	Windows	Aug 03, 2012	9 out of 10	90
GameSpot	Windows	Mar 06, 2012	8.5 out of 10	85
XGN	Windows	Mar 11, 2012	8.5 out of 10	85
Destructoid	Windows	Mar 01, 2012	8.5 out of 10	85
Strategy Informer	Windows	Feb 29, 2012	8.5 out of 10	85
ComputerGames.ro	Windows	Apr 16, 2012	84 out of 100	84
Hooked Gamers	Windows	Mar 02, 2012	8 out of 10	80
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Windows	Mar 13, 2012	79 out of 100	79
Eurogamer.cz	Windows	Mar 19, 2012	7 out of 10	70
4Players.de	Windows	Feb 24, 2012	65 out of 100	65

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