Ok World War III published by Jowood is awesome.
Why you might ask? Is it the detailed but untimatly frustrating units? The unit maker? The cool Terrain?
No it is the story. Feast your mind on this shit
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The political crisis has been growing for months. A wave of demonstrations has broken out around the world. The pieces of information released through the mass media hardly reveals half of the seriousness of the situation. And its all because of...
In a secret session of the Central Geological UN Commission it is revealed that worldwide oil stocks have plummeted to dangerously low levels. If consumption remains at current levels, oil reserves will run out within 10-15 years. This proves too short for even the most highly industrialized countries to switch their economies over to alternative energy sources. Lack of oil leads to a total crash of the world economy, transportation systems, international banking system and, finally, ushers in a period of anarchy and chaos.
In October 2001, the UN General Assembly drafted a resolution calling for the takeover of all world oil reserves and placed their control firmly in UN hands. The stated goal was to bring mankind out of the oil crisis with a minimum of pain.
The OPEC countries response was to call for a Jihad, or holy war and quickly began building up their arms supplies.
The UN then passed another resolution calling for the forcible capture of all oil reserves, starting with those in the Middle East. In November 2001 the first NATO fleet hit the shores of the Persian Gulf...
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before 9/11 but still.... did the austrians know? Do the austrians know how to make this game fun?
Why you might ask? Is it the detailed but untimatly frustrating units? The unit maker? The cool Terrain?
No it is the story. Feast your mind on this shit
"
The political crisis has been growing for months. A wave of demonstrations has broken out around the world. The pieces of information released through the mass media hardly reveals half of the seriousness of the situation. And its all because of...
In a secret session of the Central Geological UN Commission it is revealed that worldwide oil stocks have plummeted to dangerously low levels. If consumption remains at current levels, oil reserves will run out within 10-15 years. This proves too short for even the most highly industrialized countries to switch their economies over to alternative energy sources. Lack of oil leads to a total crash of the world economy, transportation systems, international banking system and, finally, ushers in a period of anarchy and chaos.
In October 2001, the UN General Assembly drafted a resolution calling for the takeover of all world oil reserves and placed their control firmly in UN hands. The stated goal was to bring mankind out of the oil crisis with a minimum of pain.
The OPEC countries response was to call for a Jihad, or holy war and quickly began building up their arms supplies.
The UN then passed another resolution calling for the forcible capture of all oil reserves, starting with those in the Middle East. In November 2001 the first NATO fleet hit the shores of the Persian Gulf...
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before 9/11 but still.... did the austrians know? Do the austrians know how to make this game fun?
And yeah, that game manual hits a little close to home there.