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By letting you jump in and drive dozens of futuristic vehicles in a real-time-strategy setting, Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising creates innovative and white-knuckled gameplay that will strain both your reflexes and your wits, not to mention your cool head.
Cabal Together Now
Its 2032 and the world is at peace, but a cabal of aging militarists threatens to rekindle humanitys warlike nature. Working from a hi-tech supercarrierthe Antaeus, which uses nanotechnology to build helicopters, tanks, hovercraft, and moreyou fight your way through an island chain to stop the cabal and whatever other threats pop up.
Though it requires sound strategy to beat the 21 missions and theres resource collecting and unit building, Hostile Waters is more action than RTS. You give orders from a map screen, but its always paused, so the strategy isnt really in real-time though it feels like it is. Most of your time is spent driving or piloting vehiclesloads more fun than strategizing, anyway. You can hop into any vehicle at any time, which is usually the best way to make sure the job is done right. Although giving orders is sometimes harder than it should be, driving and flying the vehicles is a snap.
Waves and Chaos
The 3D islands are incredibly detailed, especially the enemy compounds lined with loads of working equipment. Navigation lights blink, radar dishes swivel, and everything can be destroyed, including the little peopleha! To add to the flavor, each of your handful of pilots and drivers has a distinct voice and responds to your orders in colorful fashion, including remarks that justify its M rating. If the usual game categories leave you unscathed, get bloodied in these Hostile Waters.-- 0 / GamePro
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