Preview from examiner.com

[RedRalphWiggum]

http://www.examiner.com/pc-game-in-national/supreme-ruler-cold-war-preview

Building on the success of Supreme Ruler 2020, Supreme Ruler: Cold War takes you back to the tense Cold War years and lets you rule either the United States or Russia. Forge whatever path you desire during those tense years, but it’s probably a good idea to avoid blowing everything to hell in a fiery nuclear doom.

Or if you do, make sure you’re on the “winning side”.

It’s 1949. Do you know where the Bomb is?
Supreme Ruler: Cold War attempts to recreate the entire world as it was during the cold war era, right down to accurately placed cities and the military inventories for all the major world powers. And if you were curious, the entire world consumes 2 million hexes, and the game will accurately recreate all major cities and locations. Someone certainly did their homework.

One of those someones happens to be Lead Designer David Thompson of Battlegoat Studios (the game’s developer), who talked with us at Paradox Con 2011 about Supreme Ruler: Cold War and the immense level of detail put into the game.

“Although the game has tremendous depth, we really want it to allow the player to decide how they want to play, so they can delegate major parts of the game to the AI if they want to.”

Control as much or as little as you like
If you want to focus on the tactical RTS military aspect of the game, you can put most of the diplomacy, espionage, and other elements under AI control. You have 6 AI ministers that you can assign to various areas to handle them for you—again, the goal being to let you control those things that interest you and largely leave the rest on autopilot.

But if you want to control taxes, diplomacy, espionage, military, research and development, etc. you can—to a staggering degree of detail. Thompson quickly drilled down into some of the military inventory, finance screens, and others. Micromanagers and data analysts should have plenty to chew on.

Choose your own path to victory
In the campaign game, you can play as either Russia or the U.S. beginning in 1949—the early beginning of the Cold War. In sandbox mode, you can play any nation—with up to 16 players in a multiplayer game.

You also have the freedom to create your own victory conditions. Some examples Thompson told us about included objectives such as being the first nation to put a satellite into orbit, or being the nation that conquers and holds the Falkland Islands at the end of a set number of turns.

We’ll put a request in now for a victory condition based upon causing the extremely realistic events portrayed in the 1984 movie Red Dawn.

Change history
Like many other strategy games in the Paradox portfolio, Supreme Ruler: Cold War will be historically accurate and immensely detailed. Real world historical events can (and will) happen if the correct conditions occur for them to happen.

“You still have the freedom to play the crazy ruler,” Thompson adds. Yes, you can do ridiculous, crazy things—like just flat out nuking Cuba, avoiding the whole Bay of Pigs Invasion, and redefining “Cuban Missile Crisis.” (Let us know how that works out for you.)

Supreme Ruler: Cold War is scheduled to go gold and ship sometime around June 2011.

Supreme Ruler: Cold War features (courtesy of Paradox Interactive)

* Play as the United States or Soviet Union in Campaign Mode
* Control any Nation in Post-World War II Era in Sandbox Mode
* Use Diplomacy, Trade and Espionage to influence the policies of other nations
* Research new Technologies to give your nation an edge
* Grow and Modernize your Economy
* Control Military production and deployment, or let your Ministers take care of the details
* And when Diplomacy Fails... Sophisticated Real-Time Strategic and Tactical Control of your Military Forces
* Enhanced Graphics and Sound including New 3D Terrain
* Experience the redesigned GUI with improved On-Map feedback and streamlined controls
* Up to 16 players in Multiplayer over local network or Internet

 

[bluepoo]

i'm not russian or from the former soviet union but i hate it when people dont know the difference between russia and the soviet union. long live the propaganda.

what does going 'gold' mean?

 

[Arbus]

i'm not russian or from the former soviet union but i hate it when people dont know the difference between russia and the soviet union. long live the propaganda.

+1 but what do you mean with propaganda? It annoys me as much as people not making the distinction between England and the UK, but that's not propaganda, just ignorance or lazyness in using the correct terms.

what does going 'gold' mean?

I think it's when the game is ready to be sold, the alpha phase is the earliest, then it goes beta, and finaly goes gold but I'm not sure.

 

[unmerged(202642)]

It annoys me as much as people not making the distinction between England and the UK, but that's not propaganda, just ignorance or lazyness in using the correct terms.

Damn right there mate. It sooo annoys me when people call the United Kingdom England. I call myself British, not English. Plus, Russia wasn't an official country back then, just like England isn't really today. Make an effort once in a while to understand countries.

 

[RedRalphWiggum]

Going gold mean finished and ready for shipping.

 

[Comrade Chaos]

i'm not russian or from the former soviet union but i hate it when people dont know the difference between russia and the soviet union. long live the propaganda.

what does going 'gold' mean?

USSR has 'Russia' in it, so it is as good as any name.

 

[RedRalphWiggum]

USSR has 'Russia' in it, so it is as good as any name.

No, it doesn't. The acronym is Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

 

[unmerged(30465)]

No, it doesn't. The acronym is Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

There was some kind of law sue of Russian guy in Toronto against Canadian or ethnic mass media not so long time ago. The reason was simple - when someone from the former USSR does something bad everyone is identifying him as "Russian" ( including him/her self ), but when it was something good then mass media was trying to find out his/her ethnic group - Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Kazakh or any other. I have to agree that this happens very often.

 

[bluepoo]

USSR has 'Russia' in it, so it is as good as any name.

obviously, russia is a state within the ussr. but when someone describes the ussr as russia, thats when it gets stupid. which is what was meant. russia is not the ussr, but russia is a part of the ussr.

 

[Krautkopf]

obviously, russia is a state within the ussr. but when someone describes the ussr as russia, thats when it gets stupid. which is what was meant. russia is not the ussr, but russia is a part of the ussr.

And the dominant part it was, with Russians (i.e. Soviet citizens of ethnic Russian origin) dominating the state, the army, the government, the everything. With the people speaking Russian, and even the Georgian-descendant Stalin expecting his folks to fight for "Mother Russia" (instead of "United Socialist Mother of Soviet Children"). It is not surprising that people refer to the USSR as "Soviet Russia" or to the Soviets as "Russians". It is as "normal" as referring to "England" when talking about the UK. No pu intended.

And it has nothing to do with propaganda, really. Propaganda-infected minds would call the Soviets "commies" or maybe "reds" or something like this.

 

[bluepoo]

And the dominant part it was, with Russians (i.e. Soviet citizens of ethnic Russian origin) dominating the state, the army, the government, the everything. With the people speaking Russian, and even the Georgian-descendant Stalin expecting his folks to fight for "Mother Russia" (instead of "United Socialist Mother of Soviet Children"). It is not surprising that people refer to the USSR as "Soviet Russia" or to the Soviets as "Russians". It is as "normal" as referring to "England" when talking about the UK. No pu intended.

And it has nothing to do with propaganda, really. Propaganda-infected minds would call the Soviets "commies" or maybe "reds" or something like this.

sorry, but as far as i'm concerned, mistaking russia as the soviet union, irregardless of how large it contributed to the soviet union or what stalin said, is stupid. just as stupid as referring to england as the uk. if you watched american propaganda clips of the 50's you'd realize that soviet russia was taken as a fact that it was solely the ussr and was eventually put into several history books. just because we live in the west, it shouldnt be taken for granted that history books in schools aren't editted, omit information or just flat out lie.

 

[RedRalphWiggum]

sorry, but as far as i'm concerned, mistaking russia as the soviet union, irregardless of how large it contributed to the soviet union or what stalin said, is stupid. just as stupid as referring to england as the uk. if you watched american propaganda clips of the 50's you'd realize that soviet russia was taken as a fact that it was solely the ussr and was eventually put into several history books. just because we live in the west, it shouldnt be taken for granted that history books in schools aren't editted, omit information or just flat out lie.

Look, while I agree with the thrust of what you are saying, the fact is a lot of people refer to the USSR as 'Russia'. There is no political meaning or slight meant by it, that's just a habit people got into. A lot of people also DO refer to the UK as 'England' and so on. If you want to point out the error once that's fine but this is not the place to have an argument about it.

 

[bluepoo]

Look, while I agree with the thrust of what you are saying, the fact is a lot of people refer to the USSR as 'Russia'. There is no political meaning or slight meant by it, that's just a habit people got into. A lot of people also DO refer to the UK as 'England' and so on. If you want to point out the error once that's fine but this is not the place to have an argument about it.

take it easy ralph...i'm merely passing through and catching up on the news...replying after a month from when kraut originally posted is hardly arguing. nevertheless, i'll let it go.

 

[RedRalphWiggum]

take it easy ralph...i'm merely passing through and catching up on the news...replying after a month from when kraut originally posted is hardly arguing. nevertheless, i'll let it go.

I understand and I know you didn't mean to derail or anything, it's just that these things have a way or spiralling...