The game Faces of War is devoted to the final period of World War II in Europe: the summer of 1944 - the spring of 1945. During this period mighty battles were held in France, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary and Germany. The German war machine was making every possible effort to defend the territory of Third Reich from the Soviet and Allied troops. However, during 11 months the German resistance was crushed at all the front lines and the war ended where it had begun - in Berlin.
The German military machine strained its every nerve to defend the territory of the Third Reich against the soviet and allied armies. But during 11 months the German resistance was crushed at all the fronts and the war came to the end there, where it had started – in Berlin.
A player is given an opportunity of choosing one of the three belligerents – the USSR, Germany and the Allies. Each part has two sets of missions – in some one has to play for ordinary soldiers, in others – for elite forces.
The main acting unit in the game is a detachment. The detachment commander is marked with yellow, his privates – with green. One may draft other soldiers, including allies into his detachment. Every soldier, every materiel unit has its own inventory in the game; and that is one more peculiarity of the game-play in 'Faces of War'. Soldiers' specialization is various: riflemen, tommy-gunners, machine gunners, officers, snipers, flamethrower men, antitank forces, field medical men, tank men, sailors, rangers, engineers.
The realistic system of damages is another peculiarity of the game. Not only thickness of materiel armor plates is taken into consideration but the number of hits at the same place, as well. At that the dynamics of damages is seen by the naked eye: from cracks to a large shell-hole and complete destruction by an explosion. In addition, there is realized ballistic calculation of bullets and shells trajectories.
A player is granted a vast choice of means of enemy destruction: tommy-guns, machine-guns, grenade-guns, cannons, jeeps, tanks, antiaircraft emplacements, armoured cars and many others. All these models are made according to the detail drawings of real military equipment.
The outward world is remarkable for its high interactivity, there are complex hierarchical multicomponent objects of the game world with an opportunity of consecutive destruction of any objects. There was developed a high-precision system of visibility, which takes into account windows, wall breaks, bushes and others. All these and also dynamic landscape modification with explosion holes and breaking ice allow using efficiently the environment for conducting military operations. A powerful system of shelters determination allows to calculate the tactics on many steps forward.
The game scenario was made up with participation of a science fiction writer Alexander Zorich.
Features:
- Command American, Soviet and German troops during world-renowned battles that include D-Day, new winter missions and the storming of Berlin.
- Complex team AI for new tactical opportunities: AI controlled soldiers don't simply execute any order given by a player, they think how to do it in the most efficient and safe way.
- Realistic physics: anything can be destroyed or manipulated and used to player's advantage.
- Powerful shelter identification system.
- Hi-precision visibility system, which accounts for windows, wall cracks, bushes, etc.
- Complex ordnance and buildings damage system, ballistic calculation of trajectory of bullets and shells.
- Direct control of every unit.
- Dynamic modification of landscape with explosion funnels.
- Wide selection of firearms, ground, naval and aerial materiel, including amphibians.
- Latest visual 3D technologies.
- Up To 8 players via LAN / Internet, co-op play with up to 4 players, 8 or more multiplayer modes, including free-for-all and team-based matches.
Minimum system requirements:
Pentium III/Athlon 1.4 GHz
512 RAM
64 Mb VRAM
4 Gb HDD free space
Recommended system requirements:
Pentium 4/Athlon XP 2.4 GHz
1 Gb RAM
128 Mb VRAM
4 Gb HDD free space
Multiplayer: LAN, Internet