Back in the present, New Yorker Chris Stone starts his day as a plumber and ends it as a rebel freedom fighter railing against a Soviet invasion. From there, the Reds marched across all of Europe, Asia, and South America. The title is set in an alternate past where the Soviets beat the rest of the world to the nuclear punch and ended World War II by blasting Berlin back to the Stone Age. IO Interactive - the makers of last year's Hitman 2 - seem to remember those times, and have made good use of them as a backdrop for its new third-person shooter, Freedom Fighters. There was a time in world events when the threat du jour wasn't terrorism, but communism - the Soviet Union in particular. Up to eight players can battle it out over the Internet or a LAN. Battles take place within evolving environments marked by rain, snow, billowing smoke, and explosions. Yet as players send fighters into battle and experience casualties, their charisma rating will diminish. Once on the streets, the action takes place in real-time as players fight using such weapons as machine guns, grenades, and Molotov Cocktails.Īs players capture key military installations and rescue prisoners, their character's charisma rating will increase, thereby helping the recruiting process. From an underground base in the sewers, players plan out their missions using a turn-based system.
cities.Ĭast in the role of a New Yorker whose brother was kidnapped by the Red Army, players must solicit and then lead a group of ragtag freedom fighters to accomplish various objectives.
Soldiers then started flooding across Canadian and Mexican borders to establish control in each of the largest U.S. After winning the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched a nuclear missile at Washington, D.C., killing the President. Freedom Fighters offers a blend of strategy and action as players fight to reclaim New York City from Soviet invaders.
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