Making History: The Calm & The Storm is a true grand strategy game
that 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.
The fate of
that nation is entirely in your hands as the world melts into chaos and
global conflict. With behavioral models of over 70 countries Making
History is a totally new approach to strategy games, where brain cells
are as important as bullets.
- Rich WWII world: Making History: The Calm & the Storm
includes over 80 nations and 800+ regions. Each nation is given
detailed characteristics built on extensive research, including
economic and military strengths, diplomatic relations, ideology, and
technical advancement. Each region features terrain, infrastructure,
resource production and more.
- You are your Nation:
Jump into a world in motion where every nation is pursuing its own
agenda, and where events can turn on the breaking of a single alliance.
Devise strategies based on your nation’s historic strengths and
weaknesses– and revise your plans as the world evolves in response to
your actions. Play as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy,
Japan, the USSR, the United States, or China.
- Effortless Game Navigation:
Player’s console provides one-click access to all critical information
and actions. Beautiful 3D world map includes detailed city, military,
and other models that you can work with directly.
- Multi-Turn Combat:
An innovative combat system allows many approaches to engagements from
massive assaults to holding actions. Supplies, reinforcements and
geography all affect your battle plan.
- More Military Options:
Use unique unit abilities to blitzkrieg with armor, fight attrition
battles with hordes of infantry, decimate enemy industry with strategic
bombers, and bomb fleets from a distance with a carrier task force.
With scientific research you can unlock more advanced military units,
and every unit features a detailed 3D model.
- Sophisticated World Economy:
The game’s economic system models the connections between world power
and economic strength. Players control trade, aid, industrial
development, infrastructure investments, and a deep field of research.
- Powerful Alliance System:
As you make and break alliances, declare war and propose peace, each
action affects your relations with other nations, and their willingness
to ally with you. If you lack strong allies, you may find other nations
are more are more likely to attack.
- Historic Scenarios:
Six scenarios let you start at a crucial historic moment, focus on a
specific event, or play the whole war. Scenarios cover the fall of
France, Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion of Europe, the Sudeten crisis
and more, and each is based on detailed research. You can work to
succeed where others failed, or take a different path and see what
happens.
- Superb replayability: Each
scenario drops you into a different firestorm. Each nation you play
presents unique challenges. Everything evolves from your economic and
military choices, the alliances you make, and the actions and reactions
of the world’s other nations.
- Single and Multiplayer Turn-Based Gameplay:
Innovative simultaneous-turn-based play is quick and responsive, and
keeps you in control with no waiting. Play with up to eight others in
multiplayer mode, using in-game chat to devise joint strategies and
secret pacts. Will you be a trusted ally or a backstabbing tyrant?
- Three Ways to Win: Pursue victory for your Nation, your Alliance, or your Ideology (Democracy, Communism, Fascism, or Authoritarianism.)
- Built for Modding:
Use the Scenario Editor to modify scenarios or create your own. The
Scenario Editor will be available for download from our website soon.
- Share Game Reports: Save complete reports of a game session to share on the web, analyze strategies and results