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ICBM: Escalation by developers SoftWarWare and published by Slitherine, the sequel to the well-received 2020 ICBM, is an interesting take on the RTS genre. Similar in some ways to the travesty that was Super Power 3 which I lambasted two years ago in my maiden review for Roundtable Co-Op. Unlike Superpower 3 thankfully, ICBM has a rock-solid foundation that *works* and is already in an enjoyable state despite its early preview build. It has room to improve in some areas, particularly around the interface which I’ll get into, but for what it sets out to do it does well. REPACKLAB.COM SEXY GAMES

The core gameplay revolves around combat, research and production with no real economy to speak of – other than that, damage to your cities reduces your research and production output while conquering new territories increases it. The combat changes substantially as the eras progress from early cold war to modern day as the arms race of stealth vs detection, and range and lethality vs defensive systems fluctuates based on the research focuses you and your enemies made. The game can feel very hectic at times and while flawed in some ways, it is a lot of fun in its own unique way.

Diverse Campaign Modes: From Blitz to Grand Strategy Gameplay

There are multiple campaign types revolving around how fast the game plays and complex the research tree is. Blitz is a fast 15-minute game mode with minimal research and no peace timers, great for some fast-paced fun like a game of your typical RTS. Standoff is the standard game mode with 1–2-hour duration, conquest is a much more epic 3–6-hour grand strategy game mode and the final mode is Campaigns, based on specific scenarios. Catering for RTS through to Grand Strategy playstyles within the same game is impressive. Digimon World: Next Order

As the game covers post WW2 to the near future, the gameplay and tools available changes quite a bit. Sensors will improve over time giving you more warning, but missiles and planes will get faster, stealth will improve, satellites will come into play, and so on. You will need to balance your detection, defences, conventional and nuclear forces which cover the triad of air, sea and ground launched missiles. Ground combat is basic with two units – armies and special forces. Special forces are much weaker but fast, stealthy and can act outside of war. Most combat revolves around air bases and naval task forces however and thankfully air bases and carriers have both auto-engage and auto sortie options to lighten up on the micro required.

Managing Chaos: Strategic Planning in Fast-Paced Multiplayer Modes

The game can be very hectic with a large area that you need to pay attention to with land and sea forces being slow to move (although ground forces can be air transported) and production of structures and units taking enough time to make the ability to produce a hard counter difficult to impossible – you need to be prepared. I can see this hectic nature being a lot of fun in multiplayer especially in the fast-paced blitz mode. Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition

Research and production share the same resource in this game, and you split this resource with a percentage slider which starts at 50/50. Do you want to tech up fast or spam structures and units? When do you change this plan? Do you research during the 10-minute peace timer on Standard, or do you mass an army to attack a neighbor? Can you maintain your defences in a war with what you have, or do you need to stop researching and focus solely on production? Or do you urgently need a technology to counter an enemy strategy? Production can vary from a couple of seconds for a plane to a dozen minutes to build a large facility, and research can vary from 20 seconds to half an hour or more, but there are research and buildings that can reduce these times.

What ICBM: Escalation Is—and What It Isn’t

My problems with ICBM: Escalation boil down to interface and control but none are deal breakers. I think command groups would really help the game, be it for your carrier strike groups, army brigades or airbases, faster and “standard” control over your forces would be much more pleasant. Similarly, the “escort” system for ships could be improved, a system similar to Sins of a Solar Empires fleet system would be ideal where you could hotkey the fleet, set their engagement radius, unit cohesion and so forth, and have the fleet appear on the side of the screen so you can keep track of it. Lastly there are a number of general interface improvements that could be made to improve the game but they’re and individually not worth mentioning in a preview like this. The game is remarkably bug free; I did not notice a single bug in my time playing. The graphics and sound are nothing amazing but they’re all adequate and fit the game and its theme. The performance even late game with a lot going on is impressive, I didn’t notice any frame drops.

It’s important to be clear on what ICBM: Escalation isn’t: it doesn’t have an economy to speak of, you don’t control a nation so much as a geographic union, there is no deep diplomacy that you’d get from a 4x, and it’s not an APM heavy RTS. What it *is*, is a unique combination of RTS and Grand Strategy in an almost RISK style format. In its current state the game is already a lot of fun. It could use some refinement – some of which it’s already received over the pre-release access period – but is definitely worth keeping an eye on for its unique gameplay even in the state its currently in. Dealer Simulator

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