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Fly the entire globe from the sands of Iwo Jima tothe snow-covered peaks of RussiaProduct InformationIL-2 STURMOVIK: 1946 is a wide-ranging new offering with 32 new flyableaircraft hundreds of new missions in nine campaigns spread across the entireglobe nearly 1000 new paintschemes as well as many exclusive features. Pilotscan fly the skies and fight enemies over the Russian front German occupiedEurope the Far East and the Pacific. STURMOVIK: 1946 also includes all ofprevious Il-2 series content in a single simple installation thus bringing themost respected anthology flight simulator to an unmatched 229 flyable aircraftand over 300 total aircraft on one DVD!Product Features New Aircraft – 32 new flyable fighters and bombers including the Il-10 Sturmovik the MiG-9 Jet fighter the Arado Ar-234 Blitz jet bomber or the N1K2 George fighter; plus four new AI aircraft. New Maps – Large new historical maps of the Kiev region a Manchuria region map focusing on the border between the USSR China and Japanese-occupied Korea a large bonus Burma map and an online Khalkin Gol / Nomonhan map. New campaigns - With nearly 200 missions unparalleled realism and attention to detail the nine new campaigns will thrust players into detailed fighter and bomber pilots missions for the German Soviet and Japanese air forces. Alternate history - Three of the nine campaigns are a departure into alternate history focusing on hypothetical battles between the Soviet Union and Germany in the year 1946 where WWII still rages on. Both the VVS and Luftwaffe now have access to advanced jet and rocket fighters. Unparallel Historical Accuracy – All of the historical campaigns and aircraft are created with the same ceaseless attention to detail that made the Il-2 series so popular; and even the what-if planes and missions are made as realistic as possible with final results often rewriting the monly-held opinion on

R.U.S.E is a Real-time Strategy (RTS) game utilizing a revolutionary deception gameplay mechanic that adds a whole new dimension to its classic faction and resource collection based battlefield action. This mechanic allows and encourages players to engage in elaborate tactics of misdirection, which are as important as any other battlefield tactic to overall success in-game. Additional important features include six historically accurate Allied and Axis nation factions from the conflict, each with specific units, huge maps magnifying the importance of strategy and multiplayer support up to eight players. .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } table.callout { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1. 3em; } td.vgoverview { height: 125px; background: #9DC4D8 url(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 250px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; } Tactical deception system. View larger. Easy targeting functionality. View larger. WWII specific weaponry. View larger. Total unit and strategic control. View larger. 6 playable factions. View larger. Rebirth of the RTS Genre Through Deception Developed by Eugen Systems, R.U.S.E is a WWII based Real-time Strategy (RTS) game that is set to refresh the genre through the introduction of battlefield deception on a major scale. Of course the existence of deception as a tactic is as old as the RTS genre itself, but the approach to this taken by R.U.S.E is far beyond anything that has come before it. Instead of the one-off ploys and minor misdirections enacted at players' discretion seen in other games, R.U.S.E. raises deception to the level of an integral battlefield tactic. Deceptive tactics, known as "Ruses," allow players to do things like bluff enemies in order to lead your nation's army to victory, camouflage your troops, lure your opponent with decoy units, sabotage his logistics and more. Ruses are built into the game's mechanics in the form of "cards" that can be played at particular times. There are many of these to choose from and use in accordance with particular scenarios and unit abilities. Just a few of these include: Radio Silence - A way to hides all units in a sector from an enemy intelligence system. Spy Plan - Reveals all unidentified units in the sector and keeps spy units hidden from the enemy detection system as long as they do not leave the affected area. Decryption - Reveals all enemy orders in a chosen sector. Decoy Offensive - Creates 5 decoy units to simulate an actual attack, drawing enemy forces out. Camouflage Net - Hides buildings and production facilities from enemy intelligence resulting in possible flanking scenarios by unexpected forces and unseen resources. Dimension is another fundamental aspect of R.U.S.E. that highlights the importance of deception. The IRISZOOM Engine, utilized by R.U.S.E. displays maps a hundred times larger than in traditional RTS games, which raises strategy to an unprecedented scale and gives deception a lot more depth. With the zoom, you are able to both command your units as a chief-in-command and manage your troops at a tactical level as a ground officer; for example by deploying a fake offensive on your opponent’s HQ while carefully hiding your infantry in villages to ambush the surrounding tanks. Playable Factions and Multiplayer Because R.U.S.E. is set during the WWII era, playable factions seen within the game are reflected in the combatants of that conflict. Centered around the European theater, players can expect see nations including: US, UK, Germany, USSR, Italy and France. Each have specific units, strengths, tendencies and tactical deceptive leanings. Also, since fooling a human player is very different than doing the same against AI, in addition to a deep 23-mission single player campaign, multiplayer options play a major role in R.U.S.E., to the tune of up to 8 players getting together and battling it out online across huge battlefields. In fact, multiplayer is the dominant mode available in R.U.S.E. and players will be able to set up games with their own preferences thanks to several parameters (number of available ruses, conditions of victory, game time, 1939, 1942 or 1945 mode, etc.). Key Game Features RTS action that includes becoming a master of deception on the battlefield using tactics like decoys, camouflage, radio silence, deciphering to mislead enemies. Experience war as a strategist commanding a huge spectrum of mechanized and infantry units. Choose between six Axis or Allied powers with specific units and abilities and tactical leanings. Test your strategic skills with fast-paced, addictive adversarial skirmishes, up to 8 players. R.U.S.E. Displays maps a hundred times larger than in traditional RTS games, which makes raises strategy to an unprecedented scale and gives deception a lot more depth. System Requirements: Minimum Specifications: Recommended Specifications: OS: Windows XP (Service Pack 3) / Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) / Windows 7 Processor: 2.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 3000+ or higher 3.5GHz Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or higher RAM: 1GB for XP / 2GB for Vista and Win7 2GB (XP / Vista / Win7) Disc Drive: DVD-ROM drive Hard Drive: 4GB or more Video Card: 128MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant video card (ATI Radeon X1000/GeForce 6 series or better) 256MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant video card (ATI Radeon X1900 series / GeForce 7800 or better) Sound Card: DirectX9-compatible Input Device: Mouse and keyboard

Developed by Eugen Systems, R.U.S.E is set to refresh the strategy genre, introducing deception techniques that will let you bluff your enemy in order to lead your nation's army to victory. Camouflage your troops, lure your opponent with decoy units, sabotage his logistics: strategy is intuitive and carefully thought out at the same time. R.U.S.E. features cutting edge graphics and effects, the outstanding IRISZOOM Engine, immersive combat and a simplified interface that allows you to determine your nation's strategy to defeat your enemies. Dogfight over realistic modern landscapes that have endured years of post-war trauma

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"Now the trumpet summons us again, not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle" - John F. Kennedy In 1945, unlikely allies toppled Hitler's war machine, while humanity's most devastating weapons forced the Japanese Empire to its knees in a storm of fire. Where once there stood many great powers, there then stood only two. The world had scant months to sigh its collective relief before a new conflict threatened. Unlike the titanic struggles of the preceding decades, this conflict would be waged not primarily by soldiers and tanks, but by spies and politicians, scientists and intellectuals, artists and traitors. Twilight Struggle is a two-player game simulating the forty-fiveyear dance of intrigue, prestige, and occasional flares of warfare between the Soviet Union and the United States. The entire world is the stage on which these two titans fight to make the world safe for their own ideologies and ways of life. The game begins amidst the ruins of Europe as the two new "superpowers" scramble over the wreckage of the Second World War, and ends in 1989, when only the United States remained standing. Twilight Struggle inherits its fundamental systems from the carddriven classics We the People and Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage. It is a quick-playing, low-complexity game in that tradition. The game map is a world map of the period, whereon players move units and exert influence in attempts to gain allies and control for their superpower. As with GMT's other card-driven games, decision-making is a challenge; how to best use one's cards and units given consistently limited resources? Twilight Struggle's Event cards add detail and flavor to the game. They cover a vast array of historical happenings, from the Arab- Israeli conflicts of 1948 and 1967, to Vietnam and the U.S. peace movement, to the Cuban Missile Crisis and other such incidents that brought th

Freedom: The Battle for Liberty Island is set in a world where the Soviet Union won the Cold War. Now a fierce conflict is beginning to unfold in the streets of America. Red Army troops are pouring across the borders of Mexico and Canada shortly after a nuclear missile is unleashed on Washington D.C. Chaos sets in when breaking news informs Americans that their President has been killed and the Russians have invaded the country. Players take on the role of a blue-collar worker who evolves into a charismatic and fearless freedom fighter obsessed with finding and freeing his brother, who has been taken hostage along with other New Yorkers by the Soviets. You must recruit and lead an army of urban guerillas to take on the Soviet threat in the streets of New York City. Freedom: The Battle for Liberty Island provides two layers of gameplay: A strategic turn-based mode that centers on base operations in an underground sewer system and an action mode that unfolds in the streets where fierce battles are won or lost and resources are captured.

Freedom Fighters: Battle for Liberty Island turns you into an unlikely hero, as you fight to be free in a world where the Russians won the Cold War!

Panzer Corps Wehrmacht is a brand new turn-based strategy game that reinvents a classic genre. Produced and developed by a team of experts and brought to perfection by a community of hundreds of fans, the game has evolved over 2 years to become what can be defined as a modern classic! Set in World War II, Panzer Corps Wehrmacht puts the player in charge of Axis armies, taking their core force with them through the entire war. The use of combined-arms tactics requires each general to make use of the strengths and exploit the weaknesses of their opponents. Its multiplayer mode, an improved version of Slitherine's award winning PBEM++ system, allows players to easily find opponents anywhere in the world enjoy playing them with none of the hassle. Panzer Corps Wehrmacht is designed to replicate the feeling of a classic wargame, but brings it up to 21st century standards and to a whole new generation of gamers. All of our game boxes are manufactured on demand and personalised with your details. If you are sending the item as a gift you need to modify the delivery address information to use their name. It is ok to use your address but you must the name of the person entered in the delivery address field is what will be printed on the game disk, so if you want it to have their name you must enter their name here.

A World War II game experience unlike any other!Product InformationThe first game in the Making History series The Calm and the Storm representsan innovative new direction for multiplayer strategy games and unveils strategyfor bringing compelling customizable interactive content to the classroom. Likeother upcoming games in the Making History series The Calm and the Storm usesMuzzy Lane's multiplayer gaming system software which provide teachers withreporting and assignment tools the ability to customize content to matchcurriculum needs and more.The Calm and the Storm covers the causes and consequences of World War II.The game puts you in the role of a head of state leading a struggling nationthrough challenges based on real historic events using accurate historicaldata.  Everything flows from your decisions as a leader. Each action youtake has historically valid consequences and the game's sophisticated ArtificialIntelligence (AI) and dynamic world models react accurately to events anddecisions in the game.  In-game advisors are based on actual historicfigures and give you intelligent advice about your military diplomaticdomestic and economic options. You negotiate with other players prepare yourplans make choices and take action.Scenarios in The Calm and the Storm each focus on a specific historic periodand include distinct playable countries. Scenarios focus on the key questionsand challenges that nations faced at those times. The Calm and the Stormincludes both global and focused scenarios. Global scenarios include the majorcountries involved in the Pacific and European theatres.Making History: The Calm & The Storm is a true grand strategy game thatputs players in control of global conflict combining a highly sophisticated AIwith rich historical detail. The game is unique among World War II games in theway it challenges gamers to achieve economic and diplomatic victory not justmilitary success. 

In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the language of cybernetics as a language of objectivity and truth. With this new objectivity, they challenged the existing order of things in economics and politics as well as in science.The history of Soviet cybernetics followed a curious arc. In the 1950s it was labeled a reactionary pseudoscience and a weapon of imperialist ideology. With the arrival of Khrushchev's political "thaw," however, it was seen as an innocent victim of political oppression, and it evolved into a movement for radical reform of the Stalinist system of science. In the early 1960s it was hailed as "science in the service of communism," but by the end of the decade it had turned into a shallow fashionable trend. Using extensive new archival materials, Gerovitch argues that these fluctuating attitudes reflected profound changes in scientific language and research methodology across disciplines, in power relations within the scientific community, and in the political role of scientists and engineers in Soviet society. His detailed analysis of scientific discourse shows how the Newspeak of the late Stalinist period and the Cyberspeak that challenged it eventually blended into "CyberNewspeak."

Peter Kenez's History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End examines not only political change, but also social and cultural developments. The book identifies the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in the government of Russia, beginning at the turn of the century and culminating in the revolution of 1917. Kenez envisions that revolution as a crisis of authority that posed the question, "Who shall govern Russia?" This question was resolved with the creation of the Soviet Union. Kenez traces the development of the Soviet Union from the Revolution, through the 1920s, the years of the New Economic Policies--which he sees as crucial to any interpretation of the history of the Soviet Union--and into the Stalinist order. He shows how post-Stalin Soviet leaders struggled to find ways to rule the country without using Stalin's methods but also without openly repudiating the past, and to negotiate a peaceful but antipathetic coexistence with the capitalist West.