Act of War: Direct Action
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…
Act of War: Direct Action is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Eugen Systems, released 15 March 2005 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 1.1 hrs to finish.
What Act of War: Direct Action is
Act of War: Direct Action is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Eugen Systems and released in 2005. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Act of War: Direct Action is a real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems and published by Atari. The game was released in March 2005 and features a detailed story written by Dale Brown, a retired captain of the United States Air Force and a bestselling author. An expansion pack called Act of War: High Treason was released in March 2006 in Europe and Australia, and in May 2006 in North America. The original game and expansion were later released as Act of War: Gold Edition, on 28 September 2007 in Europe. In September 2015 Eugen Systems released Act of Aggression which is considered a spiritual successor to Act of War.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Act of War: Direct Action holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1.1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or equivalent (3.0 GHz recommended), 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended) and 64 MB Hardware T&L-compatible video card (256 MB recommended). At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB.
What it launched against
Act of War: Direct Action launched on 15 March 2005, within three weeks of God of War, God of War I, Tekken 5 and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: God of War, God of War I, Tekken 5, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Act of War: Direct Action yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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