Conflict Zone: Modern War Strategy

by Acclaim

Product Features

• As a commander of peacekeeping armies, build a campaign, using both strategy against terrorists and spin control with the media
• Gain public support from the media to upgrade your units, harm innocents to weaken your power and popularity
• Test your strategy skills against the same AI engine used among today's defense forces
• Features variable gameplay within repeated missions, offering a unique gaming experience every time you play

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000067DPP
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,470 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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Enter the world of real modern warfare, where the manipulation of media and civilians leads to military victory. As the commander of peacekeepers against terrorist armies, you must build a campaign using strategic brilliance and spin control. Rescue hostages with news cameras rolling and gain public support to upgrade your units. Harm innocents and your popularity and power will plummet. Take control of terrorist factions and resort to vicious techniques such as brainwashing, media manipulation, and human shields to further your cause. Test your strategic mettle against the direct AI engine used by today's defense forces.

Product Description
Conflict Zone The sole purpose of the International Corp for Peace (ICP) is to keep warring nations in line. You take the role of either a rogue dictator or the ICP as you try to dominate the world in CONFLICT ZONE. Throughout the game you'll have to gather resources and build units to destroy your enemies with brute force. Or if you prefer something more peaceful, you can win the political war with media and propaganda. See if you can gain control of the world in CONFLICT ZONE.

Customer Reviews

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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST BUY!, November 9, 2002

By	Game Master (United States) - See all my reviews

This game is my best PS2 game. I love military games. I orderd it the very day it was released. And I have played it for ten days.

There are 17 missions with two campaigns. The two campaigns let you play as either the ICP or the bad guys GHOST. You get to use a wide range of weapons such as tanks, fighters,bomber,paratroopers, mobile artillery, anti-tank helicopters and much, much more! Choose from five climates to play in and with about 20 differet maps!

But be careful not to kill innocents.
Every unit (but one time use units) has a human like learning abilities. Defend your base with Anti-Aircraft, Artillery, and machine gun bunkers! If your want to, you can order commanders to attack or defend anything!
Grapics: 10/10 Great detail!
Sound: 10/10 Very real!
Gameplay:10/10 There is a little guide on the screen that you can turn on or off.

But be warned, this game may take a long time to play. You need
to be ready to sit down and play from five minutes to four hours.
The only time it takes four hours is in the Skirmish mode (just an arcade mode).

Hint: defend your base enough to block any force of foes, then build a huge army of tanks and ani-aircraft and attack. With a huge army I rarely lose.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fine if you get it at a bargain price, October 11, 2003

By	Lisa Shea "LisaShea.com" - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

In Conflict Zone, it's the year 2010 and the forces of peace (the ICP) are fighting against the forces of chaos (GHOST). Both manipulate the media to tell their story.

On one hand this is your traditional strategy combat game. You control troops, you build barracks and weapons factories, you crank out marines, grenadiers, tanks and jeeps.

On the other hand, the media is always watching. So it's important to build refugee camps, show just how much work you're doing to maintain peace, and get key shots of the enemy and the atrocities they are committing. That media attention - and your subsequent popularity - are just as key to winning the war as actual units and troops are.

The graphics are resonably good, rolling across the meadows and mountains of the Ukraine and other hot-spots. You can zoom in and out and rotate at whim, getting a super-close-up of your units or a far-off view of the field. The AI is also reasonable, with units coordinating attacks on the most important targets first.

What really was annoying, though, was the interface. I've played hundreds of strategy games - it's my favorite type of game to play - and even with the tutorial the unit control in this game was pretty awful. I've heard this from many, many other people, and some simply refused to play after the first few attempts. I don't know I would give up on it quite that quickly, but it definitely makes the game far more frustrating than it should be.

Also, the various cut scenes of talking heads telling you to "save the civilians" or "kill the enemy base" never line up properly with the mouths moving. The mouths sit there yapping for a good 5-10 seconds after the speech is done. There are various little things like that that, while not major when it happens once, get really annoying when they are happening continuously.

It's a very nice attempt at something "different" with the media angle, but it ends up being a not-great strategy game with a PC bent to it. You should be able to find this for half price or less, so it might be a good "in between" game to play while waiting for one of your must-haves to come out.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you Like Command & Conqeur!!!, June 29, 2004

By	SBRavens (MD) - See all my reviews

This game is exactly like the Westwood famous Command and Conquer series and can be likened to the Playstation games, retaliation and Command & Conquer except with better graphics. The tanks are good graphics, while the people look like little tips of twigs. The buildings appear exactly like C&C Generals and it reminds me alot about it. The Commanders mouths do keep talking after the voice stops but its not bad. The plotline is good enough and it certainly is a great game to entertain you until the new games you have been waiting for come out.