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real-time strategy
Act of War: Direct Action
By Eugen Systems, released 1 Jan 2005
- Microsoft Windows
What it is
Act of War: Direct Action is a real-time strategy game from Eugen Systems, set around a fictional energy crisis, terrorist attacks and global instability. Players command Task Force TALON, a counterterrorist force tasked with responding to military assaults, rescuing hostages, carrying out spy missions, taking prisoners and stopping a shadowy organization called the Consortium. The game features modern military units, urban combat, prisoner captures and destructible landscapes. Its campaign story is described as a geopolitical conflict, and the store description also highlights cinema, video effects and live action. Multiplayer operations are listed for up to eight players, alongside single-player. Steam features include Family Sharing. The game is listed for Microsoft Windows, and the Steam platform listing is Windows. Its genres include real-time strategy, with Action as its Steam genre. Eugen Systems developed the game, and THQ Nordic is listed as its publisher. The listed Steam release date is March 12, 2008.
What players like, and what they don't
- Single-player and multiplayer modes
- Multiplayer supports up to eight players
- Modern military units
- Urban combat includes prisoner captures and landscape destruction
- Family Sharing
- Windows is the listed platform
- Multiplayer is capped at eight players
Who it suits
Act of War: Direct Action suits players interested in modern military real-time strategy and a campaign about counterterrorist operations. Its listed multiplayer mode may also suit groups looking for matches for up to eight players.
Act of War: Direct Action pairs a modern military setting with single-player and multiplayer operations. Windows is its listed platform, and multiplayer supports up to eight players.
