Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm Review (PC)
Hot Cold War, tank clashes, SOP, and the burden of command
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Hot Cold War, tank clashes, SOP, and the burden of command
Martynas writes about his most anticipated PC games of 2022, which, unsurprisingly, are mostly made up of real-time strategy games.
The computer game Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm simulates a hypothetical Warsaw Pact invasion of West Germany in 1989.
Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm focuses on the practice of command. Here's What You Need To Remember: Like a real commander, the player can only place his troops in the most advantageous position and hope for the best. Forget politics. Forget history. Who knows why the Soviets invaded West Germany in 1989? Perhaps it was a bad grain harvest in the Ukraine. Perhaps they feared the U.S. would strike first. Or, maybe the Soviets simply decided—like many an empire or perhaps even a certain North American republic—that the only way to demonstrate they were not a declining superpower was by go...