Act of War: Difference between revisions

There are three factions in the game, [[Yanks With Tanks|United States Army]], [[Badass Army|Task Force Talon]] and the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Consortium]].

 

 

Along with the plot another highlight of the game is the realism of the combat mechanics, instead of more classic RTS where units are relatively cheap, have a wide range of sight even behind structures they are in front, keep fighting until having 0 hitpoints Act of War brings a delicate combat balance were units range of sight depends on the terrain and usually deal heavy damage and can be combat crippled, on this sense the long term economy of the game centers around prisoners of war, a result of critically injured enemy troops or non-combat personal from destroyed vehicles and buildings being captured and sent to detention camps where they produce additional income.

As you may imagine there are many tropes applied to this game, so it's ordered in 5 folders, one for the game itself, three for the factions and one for the Mercenaries.

 

 

== Act of War ==

* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Jefferson is a lot more prominent in the first quarter of the game than he is in the rest of it. The expansion downright blurs him with Richter at times.

* [[Death From Above]]: You may expect a lot of this from this game.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: The U.S. Army and Consortium have the Delta Force and Optical Camo Soldier, respectively. TFT is stuck with Task Force Commandos as their only basic infantry type until High Treason when they get access to Future Force Warriors.

* [[Friendly Sniper]]: Oz from the expansion.

* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: In campaign mode, Sgt. Major Jefferson. He has a ridiculously high health bar and a very, very fast HP regeneration rate. Additionally, whenever his HP goes below a fifth (where any other infantry would slowly die a painful death) Jefferson keeps regenerating and gets back up soon thereafter, making him very hard to capture. The downside? If you lose him, it's game over.

** Oz can also be considered this in High Treason.

* [[Ridiculously-Fast Construction]]: while on the practice this is basically what is going on, the developers added the visual animation of the vehicles coming in containers carried by helicopters from outside the map, it's interesting to notice the helicopters are untargetable.

* [[Shoot the Medic First]]: This is particularly important because they can actually bribe your chance to make some [[PO Ws]].

* [[Units Not to Scale]]: Mostly subverted, while the soldiers are a bit out of scale with some of the vehicles most of the things keep a very realistic proportion, this is well noticed in urban combat, where the infantry can be seen inside the structure and and fire through the windows.

* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: Every faction has one of this, ''and their counter system''.

** It does receive a brief [[Hand Wave]] about the Egyptian oil fields being the most potent ones discovered yet, but that is it

** Also, we hear that the Consortium took over Cuba in the expansion, but that plot goes nowhere once the the TFT leaves the country.

* [[X Meets Y]]: According to Atari's official UK website for ''Act of War: Direct Action'', PC Zone's exact words for Act of War are "''[[Command and Conquer]]'' goes to [[Hollywood]]".

 

== United States Army ==

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