War begins now! Wargame: European Escalation

PARIS - February 22, 2012 -  War begins now! Wargame: European Escalation, the explosive real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems (R.U.S.E.™, Act of War), celebrates its global launch tomorrow on PC retail and download with an explosive launch trailer!

The two minute video is packed with game play footage of the final few hours before war tears through Europe. Intense sequences build tension as the continent threatens to split in two. Military installations across Europe are set in a state of maximum alert, air bases of Ramstein and Allstedt have begun to deploy squadrons, and columns of tanks on both sides of the frontier rumble toward the Iron Curtain that will become, in just a few hours, the front line of a war that will tear Europe apart.

With war just moments away, the 8 national armies under the banners of NATO and the Warsaw Pact are getting ready for battle. All they need now is for you to take command!

About Wargame: European Escalation

Wargame: European Escalation, the new real time strategy game from Eugen Systems, a specialist of the genre and developer of the critically lauded Act of War: Direct Action, and more recently R.U.S.E.™.

Wargame: European Escalation is built around depth and reflection, the key elements of classic wargames. On these solid foundations, Eugen Systems builds an impressive list of features and enhancements to provide a unique and innovative gaming experience for real-time strategy fans.

Wargame: European Escalation features intense real-time battles, stunning graphics, and the amazing IRISZOOM™ system, which allows a continuous zoom from a global view of the map to the heart of the action. With realistic strategic game play, rich content, integration of EugenNet© and its numerous online services, Wargame: European Escalation will unite all the world's biggest strategy fans.

Set in the rarely-explored era from 1975-1985, Wargame: European Escalation pits NATO (USA and Western Europe) against the Warsaw Pact (Soviet and Eastern European countries) in battles that explore "what could have been." The specter of nuclear warfare loomed large over the real Cold War, but this catastrophic outcome was the ultimate last resort -- everyone knew that the first nation to start nuclear hostilities would end up wiped out just the same. Large, armored offensives through Europe would certainly have been the core of this hypothetical war, the core of Wargame's explosive campaign!

Wargame : European Escalation will be available tomorrow on PC in retail and online stores for $39.99. Download Wargame now!