Luckily, Act of War provides a solid enough game experience to offset this, and even make you care about the story.
The villain has a permanent scowl etched onto his face, while the protagonists are uniformly selfless and heroic. It's a shame the cutscenes aren't better - they come across as unintentionally amusing, with actors hamming it up like crazy, coming off as one-dimensional caricatures. New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown served as a story consultant for the game, and state of the world that Act of War posits is frighteningly familiar, with events that drive the game hitting close to home. The story is always "there," for the most part, and when combined with other elements of the game's design, helps to keep the action relevant to the narrative and the pace brisk.
Lengthy cutscenes bookend each mission, and even during missions a picture-in-picture display plays out events happening outside of your view. The game's story plays an extremely prominent role in the single-player campaign. It's not unlike Command & Conquer: Generals in this regard, but with more of a Tom Clancy than a G.I. The CD-ROM-era might have left us with a certain measure of disdain for this sort of presentation, but that shouldn't let that stop you from checking out Act of War - it also happens to be a solid and enjoyable one real-time strategy game as well. But it's retroactive in the manner that it presents this story: by means of live-action, TV mini-series quality cutscenes. Its timeliness is found in its story - it's a hard-hitting, earnestly told tale of petrol-paranoia, very reflective of the times we're living in, and in that context, quite believable.
to Moscow.Īct of War is simultaneously very timely and unflinchingly retroactive. Players take the role of Brown's recurring hero, Jason Richter, who leads "Task Force Talon" to follow a twisting, techno-thriller plotline, wound around terrorism and conspiracy, that leads from Washington, D.C. The game is designed to add depth to its story with nearly an hour's worth of original, live-action video, which is interspersed with the gameplay. Act of War: Direct Action is a modern-day shooter, based on the novel of the same name by best-selling military fiction author Dale Brown.
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