Act of Aggression

Gameplay

Gameplay is based on classic RTS genre rules. Before an attack, you have to build a base, gather resources, and generate an army. There are three natural resources, including oil, which immediately transforms itself into money. You need it to build infrastructure, create units, and upgrade the technology, including building superweapons, like nuclear ballistic missiles. It is vital to protect your supply lines, as extracted resources have to be transported to the base before they can be used. Moreover, it is beneficial to take over banks and catch hostages – this really increases the budget.

Buildings can be placed in particular places around the main base, but there is no limit on the number of constructions within one base. The player can have a few bases at the same time so as to extract as much resources as possible or to gather bigger armies. Act of Aggression offers 70 military units types of different uses – starting with infantry, through a variety of vehicles, ending with choppers and fighters. Having enough resources, they can be attributed with additional specialisations – e.g. anti-aircraft, anti-tank, anti-infantry – and special abilities. The topography plays an important role in tactics. Soldiers can hide behind a hill or in a building, but you need to keep in mind that every building is destructible. You fight both during the day and night. Some campaign missions focus only on action – there is no base management, which is known from e.g. the Command & Conquer series.

Game modes

Naturally, such a game should feature multiplayer and it does - it is for up to 8 users. Act of Aggression for PC offers team matches in various configurations.