Cuban Missile Crisis: the Aftermath

by Strategy First

Product Features

• Real-time strategy game combined with turn-based global strategy mode
• Timeline assumes Cuban Missile Crisis provoked a nuclear disaster in 1962
• Maximum usage of Blitzkrieg engine potential; special bonus missions
• Dozens of missions; use maps to position forces for a strategic attack
• Field post-WWII armaments and weapons of mass destruction

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BVP35A
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 7, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,095 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath thrusts players into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962. The game offers a different interpretation of the events that followed the famous global standoff over the small island nation. In Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath, the two cold-war powerhouse nations unleash their nuclear arsenal on the world, leveling Cuba and turning it, along with the majority of the world, into a radioactive desert. The remaining world citizens thus find themselves in a war fighting for their very survival...

Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath is a real-time strategy game combined with a turn-based global strategy mode, forcing players to use tactical troop movements while managing their resources and armies. With all the gameplay one has come to expect from the Blitzkrieg engine, gamers that enjoyed such games as Sudden Strike and Blitzkrieg are going to jump right into this title. In Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath, not only will players be able to enjoy all their familiar tactics, they will be introduced to way more metal as they field post-WWII armaments and weapons of mass destruction!

Features:

• Varied types of weapons and equipment--helicopters, rockets, reconnaissance troops, etc.
• Radioactive contamination zones that have an influence upon military equipment and troops.
• Alternative history timeline which assumes that the actual Cuban Missile Crisis provoked a nuclear disaster in 1962.
• Combines both turn-based strategy mode and Blitzkrieg's real-time strategy mode.
• Dozens of missions, through four sides of the conflict (USSR, French and German Alliance, China, American and British Alliance).
• Maximum usage of Blitzkrieg engine potential.
• Use maps to place, group, and position your forces for a strategic attack.
• In the turn-based strategy mode, every single turn is limited, adding realism to the whole experience of the game.
• Non-critical additions, such as optional missions, add depth to the gameplay.
• Radioactive contamination zones that have an influence upon military equipment and troops.

Product Description

Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath thrusts players into a world ravaged by the confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962. In this game the famous Cold War standoff ended in the worst possible way: Nuclear missiles are fired turning the world into a radioactive desert. The remaining world citizens thus find themselves in a war fighting for their very survival.Features:Combines turn-based strategy with Blitzkrieg's real-time strategy modeDozens of missions through four sides of the conflict (USSR French and German Alliance China American and British Alliance)Use maps to place group and position your forces for a strategic attackManage the influence of radioactive contamination zones on your equipment and troopsSpecial bonus missions add depth to the gameplayFormat: WIN 98ME2000XP Genre: ENTERTAINMENT UPC: 627006902284 Manufacturer No: 6-27006-90228-4

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ho-hum, September 27, 2006

By 

Andrew McMichael "amcmicha" (Bowling Green, Ky) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cuban Missile Crisis: the Aftermath (CD-ROM)

This game is only so-so. It assumes that the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 led to a nuclear war and WW3. But really those incidents have nothing to do with the progress of the game. It could easily have been a game called WW3 and set in the 1960s for all that the CMC had to do with it.

Game play is slow and the weapons are limited. Battles can be fought on autocombat or "by hand." It's more fun by hand, but gets a bit stale after a bit.

Strategy First publishes other great software like "Dangerous Waters." If you want a good battle sim, go elsewhere.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not much of anything worth while, March 6, 2009

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Kevin Meade (CT USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Cuban Missile Crisis: the Aftermath (CD-ROM)

I did not bother to finish it. The game had little to offer that was new or innovative or exiting. It did not even have anything to do with the cuban missile crisis as the title suggests.

Hail Flavius!