Movie review score
5
Act Of War High Treason
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
The good news is that many of the cool features of Act of War return in High Treason. Infantry are very useful in High Treason, since they can storm buildings, expel any defenders, and then barricade themselves inside. The neat resource system that relies less on gathering resources and more on capturing and holding prisoners is back. And you’ll once again have the cool mix of familiar high-tech and experimental weapons that you saw in Act of War. These include Abrams tanks, Stryker assault vehicles, Black Hawk helicopters, and infantry power armor. You also have access to some new types of units in High Treason. One of the easiest ways to boost your force is to hire mercenaries, which are specialized, powerful units that cost a fair amount of money to purchase and maintain, but whose presence could turn the tide of battle. For instance, you can hire a team of medics to heal your troops, or summon air defenses to help deflect enemy air raids. The other new addition is naval warfare, which now gives you carriers, destroyers, and submarines to control, though their presence is limited to water maps. Still, that opens up a whole new dimension of warfare. Multiplayer has been enhanced a bit in the expansion, mainly with the addition of more configuration options at the beginning of a match. You can adjust unit lethality, toggle prisoners, tweak game speed, and more. Otherwise, the fast-paced multiplayer remains the same.
Game Features:
* New campaign featuring the characters from the original game plus a new cast of characters who interact to create another classic techno-thriller.
* New naval combat provides a fully-fledged modern naval RTS within the game itself.
* Nine “units for hire” that range from close assault troops with Benelli shotguns to Roland SAM systems, SU-25 Froogfoot CAS aircraft, and even F-117 stealth bombers that can be called into any part of the map.
* Each faction receives new units and upgrades such as Stinger infantry and Kiowa recon helicopters for the U.S. Army, Tu-126 Bombers and Hind AT-6 missiles for the Consortium, and GUOS mine upgrades.
* A dramatic increase in multiplayer options including: map wealth, resource sharing, super-weapons on/off, resource harvesting speed settings, and unit lethality toggling as well as new game modes such as “Marine One Down” and “SCUD Launcher”.
Game Features:
* New campaign featuring the characters from the original game plus a new cast of characters who interact to create another classic techno-thriller.
* New naval combat provides a fully-fledged modern naval RTS within the game itself.
* Nine “units for hire” that range from close assault troops with Benelli shotguns to Roland SAM systems, SU-25 Froogfoot CAS aircraft, and even F-117 stealth bombers that can be called into any part of the map.
* Each faction receives new units and upgrades such as Stinger infantry and Kiowa recon helicopters for the U.S. Army, Tu-126 Bombers and Hind AT-6 missiles for the Consortium, and GUOS mine upgrades.
* A dramatic increase in multiplayer options including: map wealth, resource sharing, super-weapons on/off, resource harvesting speed settings, and unit lethality toggling as well as new game modes such as “Marine One Down” and “SCUD Launcher”.
