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{{quote|''[[Sarcasm Mode|This delightful and cheery war]] started in July 1914. It is now February 1964, and [[Lampshade Hanging|believe it or not]]... [[Forever War|it's still being waged]]...'' |'''[[The Hero|Lieutenant Anderson's]] [[Opening Narration]]'''}}
''Iron Storm'' is a 2002 [[First
In the game's [[Backstory]], [[World War One]] never ended in 1918 and dragged well into the 1960s. The reason behind this was a charismatic White Russian general, a certain Baron Ugenberg. He managed to unite lots of former Tsarist soldiers and warriors from Siberian and Mongolian tribes under his banner during the Russian Civil War. With the help of their constantly growing numbers, he succeded in crushing the Bolshevik Revolution and reuniting former [[Tsarist Russia]], [[Large Ham|grandiously renaming it]] "[[Awesome McCoolname|the Russo-Mongolian Empire]]". But his conquest didn't end there, as he decided to build a mighty pan-Eurasian empire, having delussions of being a modern day successor of Genghis Khan. He succeded in claiming the entire eastern half of Europe. The frontlines between his newly founded empire and the remaining western democracies came to a halt in the late 1920s, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|cutting Germany in half]]. The game starts in early 1964, when the [[The Federation|United States of Western Europe]] manage to discover information about a secret [[Doomsday Device]] being built by the baron's scientists. Enter you, lieutenant James Anderson, an aging [[Shell
Sounds like a fairly straight-forward action and espionage story ? Well then : Expect a few interesting twists on your way...
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** [[Nintendo Hard|Hard]]
** [[Harder Than Hard|Realistic]]
* [[
* [[Just a Stupid Accent]] / [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Nicely averted. The Russian and German soldiers are all voiced by genuine native speakers and their [[Enemy Chatter|chatter]] [[Bilingual Bonus|can often give away important information about what they're plotting against you]].
* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: Especially if you're the one who's carrying them.
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* [[Rule of Cool]]: It isn't a surreal dieselpunk dystopia for nothing...
* [[Scenery Gorn]]: So much of it goes [[Serial Escalation]]. Eerie [[Ghost Town|Ghost Towns]] bombed backed to the Stone Age and abandoned for decades ? [[Mordor]]-esque frontlines ? Creepy run-down industrial laboratories ? You name it...
* [[Shell
* [[Silent Protagonist]]: Besides the trailer and a few cutscenes, lieutenant Anderson apparently hasn't got much to say. But hey, [[War Is Hell|can't blame him]]...
* [[Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility]] : A little mushy, especially considering the lenghth of the war (Europe was already very exhausted by the conflict in 1918). [[Alternate History Wank|The success of Ugenberg's early continent-spanning conquests]] is exaggerated [[Rule of Drama|for obvious dramatic reasons]]. Everything in the [[Backstory]] is definitely done on purpose to evoke an Orwellian-like atmosphere of a neverending industrial conflict. Other than that, the setting is quite realistic and features no alien or supernatural intervention. So, it's more or less a Type II.
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* [[War Is Hell]]: It doesn't get more hellish and crapsacky (at least visually) than in this game.
* [[World War One]]: painted by a team-up of George Orwell and Hieronymus Bosch, apparently...
* [[X Meets Y]]: Seriously, it's as if ''[[All Quiet On the Western Front (Literature)|All Quiet On the Western Front]]'', ''[[Nineteen Eighty
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