Platform: PC
Genre: Real-time Strategy
Developer: G5 Software
Publisher: 1C Company
ETA: Q4 2004

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Cuban Missile Crisis

What if the infamous Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 actually resulted in a full-bore nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union? That’s the question the real-time strategy title Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC) lays before gamers. Taking its cue from sci-fi styled war-related RTS’ in the mold of the Command & Conquer series, you’ll pick one of two alliances (USSR, French and German alliance, China, American and British alliance) and attempt to lead your nation to recovery from the devastating aftermath of global nuclear destruction.

Here’s the official game info:

Cuban Missile Crisis is a Real-Time Strategy game combined with a turn-based global tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between USA and USSR in 1962. Cuban Missile Crisis offers gamers an alternative interpretation of the events that followed the famous global standoff on the small island nation. After the crisis broke out, two superpowers unleashed their nuclear arsenal on the world, leveling Cuba and turning it, along with the majority of the world’s metropolitan expanses into scorched radioactive deserts.

The ones that managed to survive the disaster realized that the most precious resources are clean earth and water. The remaining world citizens find themselves in a war fighting for their very survival.

Features:
Cuban Missile Crisis provides an interesting mix of real-time battles and a turn-based global strategy mode, forcing players to use tactical troop movements while managing resources and armies.

Dozens of missions, through four sides of the conflict (USSR, French and German alliance, China, American and British alliance).

New types of weapons and equipment – helicopters, rockets, reconnaissance troops, etc.

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Radioactive contamination zones that have an influence upon military equipment and troops.

CMC is being published by 1C Company, a Russian-based publisher, so CMC may sneak in under the radar of all the big PC titles coming from the heavyweights like Electronic Arts, Activision, id, and Ubisoft. But RTS fans with a penchant for C&C gaming may want to give CMC a look.

CMC has a solid “what if?” storyline to start with, and gameplay that should be familiar to veterans of the genre. Visually, CMC reminds me of another RTS from the last few years, the Tropico series (that coincidentally or not, 1C Company had a hand in distributing in Russia). Although it won’t compare to the top-notch, high-end PC graphics you’ll see in many games released throughout this year, that shouldn’t dissuade hardcore RTS gamers from picking up Cuban Missile Crisis as long as the game’s A.I. is up to the task of providing a solidly challenging RTS undertaking.

- Lee Cieniawa
lcieniawa@armchairempire.com

(June 24, 2004)