![]() On the tactical level, it wouldn’t be too far off the mark to think of Shattered Union as a better-looking, hex-based homage to Advance Wars. An extremely unlikely fractioning of the Union into independent military/industrial regions rapidly follows, and players are charged with cobbling Uncle Humpty Sam back together again the old-fashioned way: by force. is laid to waste by a low yield nuke, effectively decapitating the incumbent administration. Shattered Union resides in the more respectable end of this “Red, White and Doom” spectrum, even with its reign-bow of error, its axis of evil flaws.Īmerica, 2013: An increasingly unpopular prez is voted back into office, domestic unrest is on the rise, and the geopolitical levee breaks when Washington, D.C. ![]() One’s limited entertainment options here run from relatively high art (some of the better ‘alternate history’ sci-fi) to the unapologetically campy (the Red Alert computer game series) to the truly crappy ( Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze, not to be confused with the even crappier Steel Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze). What – besides such mental pathology, I mean – could possibly account for a normally flag-waving, Red, White and Blue, Yankee-Doodle-Dingus like me taking so much guilty pleasure in the (fictional) downfall of the United States? It may take all kinds to make the world go ’round, but the number of “all kinds” increases radically once you start factoring split personalities into the equation. ![]()
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