Yes, some are distinctly ropey - though no more than most in-game cut-scenes - but others left me hungry and, ahem, pumped for action. While this is far from Oscar-winning stuff, it works in a straight-to-video action fashion. The second traditional problem - that the video features wooden sets and acting of a similar quality - is avoided by actually doing it in a decent fashion. In the years since footage became officially Unclean in the gaming public's eyes, the graphical power of engines has advanced to reduce the dissonance between the pair to far more reasonable levels. The traditional arguments against live footage in games is that it breaks atmosphere by cutting between these perfect images of people and the pixelated people in game. The last is, absolutely shockingly, a revelation. As well as rendered sequences and in-engine cut-scenes, we have window-in-window effects which open a monitor to show what's happening elsewhere and even real-life footage while you're on a mission. And, since the LAN and Skirmish play are an effective and brutal take on the form, that'd be a terrible thing to do.Īrranged into thirty-three chapters, the campaign unfolds with a more cinematic bent than most recent games. okay, only the campaign comes with its own highly distinctive twists, but it sounds like I'm demeaning the game if I say "The campaign comes with its own highly distinctive twists and everything's the same as usual". The game's structured around the familiar campaign, skirmish and online play, but each comes with their own, highly distinctive twists. at least until another C&C trundles along anyway. So while everyone else gets a little closer to the action and try to ape Warcraft III, this leaves Act of War doing the near-future war thing virtually all by its lonesome. If the entire world is changing around you, a way to secure your identity is to just stay in the departed niche. It's in Real Time! It's a game! It has Strategy and it's in Real Time and it's a game! It's a Real Time Strategy Game! If you brought someone forward in time from those crazy salad days of the mid-nineties, and put a line-up of games before them, they'd identify Act of War with a cheery "Yes - that's the RTS". While every other game seems to be integrating elements of everything from role-playing games to platform games (at least in the case of the widely anticipated Command & Conquer: Its-a Me! Yuri!), Act of War keeps things familiar.
This, if nothing else, makes Act of War: Extraneous Subtitle something of a rarity in the busy gaming world of 2005.
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