Game: The Cold War Era

LongBlade · May 13, 2013, 11:07:48 AM

This game looks vaguely like the old Mac game, Balance of Power, but has more direct military confrontation.

Looks interesting. http://www.thecoldwarera.com/

Jarhead0331 · May 13, 2013, 12:31:42 PM

Hmmm...ok, who is going to take the plunge?

Grim.Reaper · May 13, 2013, 12:40:58 PM

Is it out?

GJK · May 13, 2013, 12:41:40 PM

It's Twilight Struggle as an RTS vs turn based, card driven game, "Space Race" track included.

LongBlade · May 13, 2013, 01:46:59 PM

Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 13, 2013, 12:31:42 PM
Hmmm...ok, who is going to take the plunge?

I can get you a review copy.

Tamas · May 13, 2013, 01:53:53 PM

I was quite interested. They linked a review on their facebook page.

It wrote that it is quite rough at the edges and some of the stuff which happened was obscure, in other words it seemed to be suffering from the "small team did it" interface problems, but that is almost like a given in our hobby, so I wouldn't care.

The review also mentioned that a single game is timed to last for... an hour. I am afraid I'll pass.

Bismarck · May 13, 2013, 02:20:50 PM

Clumsey. Can't read the info on-scree. Too fast..

Jarhead0331 · May 13, 2013, 04:37:35 PM

Quote from: LongBlade on May 13, 2013, 01:46:59 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 13, 2013, 12:31:42 PM
Hmmm...ok, who is going to take the plunge?

I can get you a review copy.

I'll take it. May take some time before I can get to the review though. I'm working on StarDrive presently...

LongBlade · May 13, 2013, 05:02:02 PM

Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 13, 2013, 04:37:35 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on May 13, 2013, 01:46:59 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 13, 2013, 12:31:42 PM
Hmmm...ok, who is going to take the plunge?

I can get you a review copy.

I'll take it. May take some time before I can get to the review though. I'm working on StarDrive presently...

Request sent.

tgb · May 13, 2013, 07:18:46 PM

There's no demo, is there?

jomni · May 13, 2013, 07:39:17 PM

I will watch this.

Grim.Reaper · May 13, 2013, 08:03:18 PM

Seems like it is a server based game, even for single player. No offense to the company, but I would be afraid of their long term existence if it doesn't sell well...then you wouldn't be able to play your game.

GJK · May 13, 2013, 10:17:05 PM

I'm betting that Twilight Struggle is a much more polished, playtested and refined game and I'm anxiously awaiting the PC version of it to be released. I'd faint if the designer's of this game told me that they never heard of Twilight Struggle because from the short video with Ms. Pierced Eyebrow, it appears to be a very blatant rip-off to me.

Nefaro · May 13, 2013, 11:10:55 PM

I checked the vid for it out on Greenlight sometime in the past week.

Looked way too simple for my tastes. Maybe they didn't show everything but all I saw was a handful of the same few resource sliders available for each nation on a world map. Perhaps it's deeper than that but I didn't see it.

Rekim · May 13, 2013, 11:14:44 PM

I can't wait for computer Twilight Struggle either. I need the practice. The only people I know who play it are super freaking good at it. In recent times I've witnessed two games that ended by turn #3 (I was the victim in one match). Fun game though.

Expect it must be very close to release.