With the help of 10’s Glacier Engine, Freedom has a simple but appealing graphical tone that favours broad urban spaces over level of detail, and already appear quite stunning. Also included is a selection of drivable vehicles, both military and civilian. Molotov cocktails and your sinewy working man’s fists. The usual assortment of real-world and semi-fictional weapons will also be on offer, including machine guns, rocket propelled grenades. supply dumps, airfields - and as head firebrand it’s up to you to decide whether to destroy them, commandeer or simply avoid them. If you poke around enough you’ll find all manner of strategically important bits and pieces - bndges. The development team wants the missions to be interlocking in this way, with rewards for exploration and taking the initiative. For example, you might be tasked with destroying a Soviet HQ in one mission, but unless you also blow up the nearby airfield you’ll find yourself facing devastating helicopter attacks on your next incursion. The missions themselves promise to be pleasantly varied, often boasting multiple objectives and multiple levels of success. with teams growing in size as you recruit more and more irate Americans to your cause, although direct control over teammates will be kept to a minimum. The strategic phases take place in New York’s sewer systems, now the centre of resistance operations, where your job is to direct movements around the city, deciding where to strike and liberating the city sector by sector.Īction missions are mostly teambased. In fact, the gameplay promises to be far more interesting and diverse than that, with a mixture of first-person guerrilla warfare and turn-based strategy. and despite lessons learned in Chechnya, the Russkies have underestimated the power of the little man.ĭon’t get the wrong idea though, this is no ordinary action shooter. Thousands of citizens have been rounded up and imprisoned, including your own brother. A nuclear missile has taken out the US capital, offing the President in the process, and giving the commies free reign to send in the troops.
Ok, who remembers Red Dawn then? The mid-’80s Cold War paranoia flick starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen? You know, the one where a bunch of plucky teenagers have to save the USA from an invading Soviet army hell-bent on enslaving the decadent capitalist pig-dog and replacing every MacDonald’s sign in sight with a hammer and sickle? It’s had videogame potential written all over it for years, and it’s bordenng on criminal that it’s taken until now for someone to recognise this.įreedom: The Battle For Liberty Island (working title) may not be formally related to the big-screen classic, but it does take Soviet invasion as its basic premise, and does put you in the shoes of a Swayze-esque everyman leading a team of motley freedom fighters against an occupying force on Uncle Sam’s soil.
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