Act of War: Direct Action Review
Innovation in the kind of real-time strategy was slightly smaller in recent years. Although some titles have tread new ground in presentation and graphics, most were simply clones of some of the most popular franchises. Act of War: Direct Action does not innovate this kind of thing, but how it is presented will allow players on the edge of their seats until they see the conclusion credits roll. What makes this game like that? Read on to find out.
Unlike most games real time strategy, where players load the story mode of this game, they will not play as all three fractions, but not play with the U.S. Army and Task Force Talon. The storyline is very exciting and seems like it might be held on a novel by Tom Clancy. Players will try to stop a group of terrorists trying to cause turmoil in the world. If players fail in their mission the world will be a different place and horrible to live. Failure is not an option.
Act of War: Direct Action is something I have not seen a real-time strategy before to successfully build and is real live action cutscenes throughout the game. What’s even better is that in this game is very decent integrated and makes the game more realistic feel and fun to play. The sequences are scattered throughout the game to make him feel like players in an interactive movie. This will make the players try to finish each mission is to discover what else lies ahead. Another thing that makes it more realistic is an ongoing mission, there will be a small box that appears and the interior is “real time” images of news of what is happening. These are small things like that that make the pace of the game very well together.
The only thing that kills kinematics is that the acting is very poor, almost laughable sometimes. The expressions on the faces of the actor and false accents kill the mood, but I really welcome the attempt. Even if she could get on the crazy side, he is still actually incorporated into the game well, and players must keep pushing to see what happens.
After players finish the story mode exciting, they will have the opportunity to play in skirmish or multiplayer. As readers of these modes have the opportunity to play as all three factions of the game: the U.S. Army, Task Force Talon or the Consortium. Like all RTS games before it, each faction has its strengths and weaknesses final, but that is what makes the big game, because they each have their checks and balances so that no faction is central.
The U.S. military defines all units under the control of the Pentagon, where Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. They can handle anything at any given time. The biggest weakness it has is that it will take longer to get the units reaching consequences because you have to do some upgrades to first base. Task Force Talon is an elite military faction which is composed of the best in all branches of the U.S. military. They are very quick at what they do, but the problem with this faction is that all they need is very expensive. The Consortium has control in many terrorist organizations around the world. They can create units of low quickly, but in order to create huge forces, they must rely on the help of prisoners of war captured.
A staple of every RTS game is resource management and this title has a unique way to do so. For the traditionalist there you’ll be able to build a rig for oil and crude oil crop in exchange for some serious money. There is another interesting way to generate money and that’s when you’re in combat, you can capture enemies and get a reward for them. This is a big plus, because when you’re in a battle is when you tend to spend more money to recover the loss of soldiers, so now it is a way to get money.
Another thing that makes Act of War: Direct Action stand out is the foundation of all battles. Unlike many strategy games in real time, this game will take players around the world fighting missions. Players will travel to London and Washington, DC, and to top it all, the world has teamed up with life. In one mission launch, players will travel to Buckingham Palace to protect certain important people, but they must go through a huge protest in which multitudes of people. While the people will not prevent you from getting to your location it does offer players a more realistic approach.
The graphics of this game are simply wonderful. Everything is very detailed and just oozing from their pores eye candy pure. The only thing that really stands out is how detailed of all backgrounds are. Skip buildings with smoke them screaming and rubble littering the ground nearby. When things explode is a magnificent spectacle that you want to see more and more because it seems that good. What will really give you is that developers have made the environments are teeming with life when you really feel like you are competing in a local neighborhood.
The sound of this game is a mixed bag. First the sound effects are really well made explosions that you hear at all firing automatic weapons on your enemies. Everything sounds realistic and gives players the feeling they are really in the middle of a war. What a killer is the voice acting for cutscenens and some units. In many RTS games, you should click on the unit several times just to hear all the things he will say. The lines that have units are decent, but they are not as good as it could be. The accents are really lame cutscenes and a bit laughable.
Act of War: Direct Action is rated T for Teen for blood, violence and language.
The system requirements are:
AMD/Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
256 MB of RAM
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
2X DVD-ROM
DirectX 9.0
64 MB of VRAM
6 GB of Hard Drive Space
Keyboard and Mouse.
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