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ICBM: Escalation is a real time strategy game of global warfare and nuclear mass destruction. Issue orders to entire armies and wield the most powerful weapons to ever exist to eradicate your enemies and secure global supremacy. Crush your foes by invading and conquering their territories or annihilating their cities with weapons of mass destruction. Use a vast array of vehicles and weapons to control and eliminate other factions and save your own citizens from certain doom.
CONVENTIONAL & NUCLEAR WARFARE
Take charge of a faction spanning a whole continent, build up a nuclear stockpile, research new technology and command a combination of nuclear-capable submarines, planes and ballistic missiles to strike at enemies’ key assets and cities. But nuclear warfare isn’t the only option, ICBM: Escalation has new alternative win conditions that let players seek different, less destructive ways to achieve victory. An increased focus on conventional warfare allows players to annex enemy territory, providing both points and additional strategic benefits, as well as a means to cripple the enemy and force them to surrender.
RESEARCH & DIPLOMACY
Research a vast range of technologies spanning multiple generations with a revamped progression system. Start from the very beginning of the cold war, with first-generation jets and WWII-era weapons, and build up your technological capabilities until you have state-of-the-art equipment, ranging from stealth warships to weaponized satellites. Plenty of new features have been added: a new player profile system, updated diplomacy with new research agreements, ceasefires, the ability to trade and negotiate captured territories and the introduction of world-spanning diplomatic measures like weapon-banning at the Geneva Convention.
PLENTY OF WAYS TO PLAY
A host of new game modes will launch with ICBM: Escalation. These include the standard ‘Standoff’ mode, which offers a balanced and well-paced escalation from small-scale conventional warfare all the way to full-blown global thermonuclear annihilation; the lightning-fast Blitz Mode, for players looking for an aggressive confrontation and a purely nuclear conflict; Conquest mode, which offers a drawn-out battle of discretion, brinkmanship and ever-increasing hostility; and Co-Op Versus, a new team-based mode where players will have to coordinate and work together as a single faction to survive and defeat their common enemies. You’ll have the option to fight alongside and against players from all over the world in multiplayer battles with up to 10 players, or face off against the AI in one-off skirmish matches, or the all-new single-player campaign mode.
FEATURES:
A deadly combination of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare
A huge array of strategies and units for high replayability
Dozens of weapons of mass destruction, from chemical bombs to heavy MIRVs
A massive, high-definition 3D map with hundreds of major cities to destroy
Diplomatic options to control the dynamics of the world
Up to 10 players multiplayer mode with ELO ratings and a rank-up system
Single-player mode, featuring a full campaign and support for quick skirmishes
Multiple generations of technology, from the early Cold War to the near future
Team-based co-op and other alternative game modes
Full modding support
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[@Porkibus]

I was a big fan of ICBM and some modded versions were very fun. Escalation looks like a must have for me

[@davek8573]

Shall we play a game?

[@palious13]

Finny sort of game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

[@john_smithchiropractor3931]

Yes Dave.

[@mikelinley8703]

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. Or play it anyway and end the world in nuclear fire!

[@jaywerner8415]

You have no idea how many people would THANK YOU for doing that.

[@generalk3n0b13]

nice improvement from their previous game. Thank you for the video 👍

[@L425-g1f]

If you just want the nuclear side of thing the previous game was already good, but the depths added in this game is pretty good, the way science work stops you from rushing a single thing while not forcing you to rechearch everything, and the fact that nukes are weak at the start means conventionnal warfare rule early, meaning a build that would have dominated by going full science early now is particularly vulnerable, and that's without mentionning that capturing territory is better than nuking it, since you get its productivity over time, and also mean you don't necessarly want to nuke someone you want to invade... I guess the main point is that the game isn't solely about nukes now, it's instead around the whole power dynamic of the cold war : "problems" that can be solved "easily" with nukes, but with heavier consequences than if you did it convientionally.

[@razorback0z]

There was a game back in the early 90s called "Nuclear War" or something. Very fun game with parodies of the world leaders at the time.

[@jaywerner8415]

So.... they added LAND combat and new stuff. Other then that pretty much the same game.

[@james_baker]

nuked Tokyo?, Godzilla's gonna be mad

[@Trifler500]

Conquest mode FTW

[@Starkiller-Sniper]

What a great game! I am very much interested to see the Conquest mode.

[@stevepirie8130]

The Soviets had a nuclear heavy mortar I recall. There are old videos on KZbin of it firing.

[@RMMinc]

There is a reason why all artillery nowadays is 150-200mm. Once you are able to utilize a nuclear shell there is no point of having a bigger caliber.

[@albertdong]

oh - I dunno about this, I have the original ICBM but the land combat stuff in this looks like a mobile game

[@destroyerinazuma96]

Imagine HOI4 but you play as the President and have to manage whatever is left of the country after the nuclear exchange dies out.

[@gkagara]

A game that the only way to win is not to play.

[@thevlture]

That’s a great way to solve the border crisis

[@jaygunter3828]

This doesn't look like my kind of game

[@nicholasalexanderguerrero7449]

Series plz

[@BatteryH1862]

Pyongyang only has half a million people ... well, not anymore.

[@E-scooterCIWS]

oh nice, another ICBM game

[@Agora2021]

12:01 brother that is a lake.

[@dennissvitak5475]

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