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Act of War: Direct Action

by Eugen Systems

  • Released Mar 15, 2005
  • $2.99
  • 1 h to beat
  • PC (Microsoft Windows)

91%positive reviews

574 positive59 negative

What players say

Pros

  • Brilliant, damage-by-reality RTS

  • Good weapons and resource play

Cons

  • Generic music and cutscenes

  • Hard to run on modern hardware

Mixed

  • Some call it a brilliant overlooked RTS, others say it runs badly now

Media

Trailer (YouTube)

System requirements

Minimum:

Supported OS:Windows 2000/XP

Processor: Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or equivalent (3.0 GHz recommended)

Memory: 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended)

Graphics: 64 MB Hardware T&L-compatible video card (256 MB recommended)

Sound: DirectX® version Windows 2000/XP-compatible sound card

Hard Drive: 3 GB free HD space

* Broadband connection required for online multiplayer play

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Act of War: Direct Action is a highly realistic, near future real-time strategy game, set against the backdrop of a conflict that threatens to permanently change the face of our world. Created in conjunction with US Air Force captain (ret.) Dale Brown, author of 14 New York Times best-sellers, this…

Ratings

  • 70IGDB players17 ratings
  • 80Critics3 reviews
  • 75Overall20 scores

Time to beat

  • 1.2 hStory onlyto the credits
  • 1.1 hStory and extraswith side content
  • 1.3 hCompletionist100%

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LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish (Spain)

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