What follows is a somewhat short if otherwise typical series of missions in which you are only given a small subset of units to accomplish your goals. A combination of cheesy (and not good cheesy) breaking news graphics, stock footage, and high school acting class level voicework and writing tell a mangled Tom Clancy-esque story of, I’m not even sure what – terrorists and some clandestine UN security force with a breadcrumb trail littered with spies and multinational corporations. You can tell right away, as soon as the first cutscene starts, that this is not a AAA title. Think of AoA as a AA title punching a little ways above its weight class.
It’s hampered by a terrible single player campaign, almost no tutorial to speak of while having about fifty different units and variants, and believe me no one is going to mistake it for a AAA RTS title (the same couldn’t be said of Grey Goo, which felt very AAA), but the multiplayer experience is pretty solid. And yet, God bless the hopeful fools, Eugen, who brought us Act of War and Ruse, two RTS games that kind of reside at different edges of the RTS envelope, goes and creates Act of Aggression, a game that offers elements of the classic RTS formula with some new elements mixed in. I probably play more RTS games than anything else and I almost never play Starcraft 2 – but what’s the market? What little real estate Starcraft 2 leaves behind is likely mostly claimed by Company of Heroes and there was the pretty excellent though terribly named Grey Goo earlier this year. With Starcraft 2 sucking all the oxygen out of the room, it kind of amazes me that RTS games continue to be made. Unnecessarily hard to get units to do what you want them to.
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