MAKING HISTORY: The Calm & the Storm

Publisher: Strategy First

Developer: Muzzy Lane Software

Category: Strategy

Release Dates

N Amer - 03/13/2007

Digital Download - 03/13/2007

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GameZone's Review

8.0

GZ Rating

Gameplay8
Graphics8.5
Sound8
DifficultyHard
Concept7
Multiplayer7
Overall8.0

Reviewer: Anise Hollingshead

Review Date: 04/04/2007


Making History, or rewriting it?

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News

Strategy First Inc. and Muzzy Lane Release Patch v 2.0.1 for Making History: The Calm and the Storm
The Making History Patch version 2.0.1 not only includes many bug fixes and changes, but also a list of updates and new features

Strategy First Releases a New Vodcast
Former Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos pitcher Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee, two top Strategy First titles “Great Invasions” and “Making History: The Calm and the Storm,” and an original soundtrack by “Modeen”

Strategy First Releases a New VodCast
Strategy First VodCast Presents: Muzzy Lane’s President Dave McCool talking about ‘Making History: The Calm and the Storm’ and Ghost Rider Illustrator Clayton Crain

Strategy First Releases MAKING HISTORY®: The Calm & The Storm
MAKING HISTORY is an unparalleled contest of economics, warfare and diplomacy, challenging players to maneuver through the largest mine field ever created:  World War II.

Strategy First Releases a New Vodcast
Strategy First Vodcast Presents: Two Time Eisner Award Winner Eric Shanower, MAKING HISTORY: The Calm & The Storm, and Music by Sindication.

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Description

“MAKING HISTORY” puts players in control of global conflict, combining a highly sophisticated AI with rich historical detail. The game is unique among World War II games in the way it challenges gamers to achieve economic and diplomatic victory, not just military success.

Features

  • Lush 3-D Game Space: A giant step beyond the typical grid and hex maps of strategy games. Maps, military forces and cities are realistically modeled and textured, and they animate to show action.
  • Effortless navigation: Player’s console provides one-click access to all critical information and action areas: economic status; natural resources and production capacity; military units; diplomatic agreements; game score summary; comparison to real history; and more.
  • Deep Regional Detail: Every country is richly detailed with its major industrial, civilian and military resources. Regional terrain and geopolitical features are rendered in true-to-life form and they change shape based on actions in the game. In total, “MAKING HISTORY: The Calm & the Storm” provides over 800 land and sea regions.
  • Extensive Economic Models: Extremely detailed and dynamic economic models, more than any other video game. “MAKING HISTORY: The Calm & the Storm” is a true challenge of global leadership, not just a test of military might.
  • ‘What if’ Scenarios: Tremendous historical detail and sophisticated AI that lets you take your shot at fame (or infamy). “MAKING HISTORY: The Calm & the Storm” lets you plan – and replay – historic moments of WWII as the leader of France, England, Germany, Italy, USSR, Japan or the United States.
  • Multi-Turn Combat: Innovative combat system allows many approaches to engagements from massive assaults to holding actions. Supplies, reinforcements and geography all play into your battle plan.
  • Flexible Victory Conditions: Players determine what victory is for each game, selecting from: Win as an individual country, as an Alliance, or as an Ideological group.
  • Simultaneous Turns: Allows all players to make their turns without waiting for anyone else. It’s always your turn!
  • Harness the Unique “Personality” of your country: Each of the playable nations is designed with the individual capabilities and physical assets it possessed in World War II. Unlike other war games, players do not play the Axis or the Allies; they play a specific country and write their own history of the war based on how they lead that nation.

Hardware Requirements

  • CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz
  • Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.8
  • Memory: 512 MB
  • Video Memory (VRam): 64
  • Supported Video cards:
  • NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, 6600, 6800, 7300, 7800 NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
    ATI Radeon 9000, 9200, 9550, 9600, 9650, 9800, X600, X1900
    INTEL GMA 950
  • NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may
    conflict with some disk and virtual disk drives.



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Everyone
Mild Violence

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