Yahoo games have posted a first look at the new standalone expansion High Treason.Read a section from the review: The new single-player campaign wends its way through political intrigue, assassination, and biological warfare, all to the backdrop of a good variety of maps built specifically for th...
The Act of War: High Treason Q&A on Shacknews discusses the upcoming sequel to Direct Action. "It's always tricky to limit the feature set of an expansion when there's so much you want to do, but in our case we had three pretty much given areas -- extend the replayability by deepening the multiplaye...
With all of this emphasis on the storyline and the video used to convey it, it can be easy to forget that there is indeed a game here. Act of War plays pretty true to the genre, with its primary departure from the mainstream taking the form of a simplified resource system. Act of War dispenses with...
Act of War's story is essentially a string of missions focusing around the battles of a particular soldier. Every mission, the player makes sure that he does not die, so he is very much a "hero" character with "hero" stats. The game takes place in the near future, so expect familiar military names f...