Axis & Allies (1998 video game)
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| Developer(s) | Hasbro Interactive Microprose (Iron Blitz) |
| Publisher(s) | Hasbro Interactive |
| Designer(s) | James Haldy |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release date | September 1998 |
| Genre(s) | Turn-based strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone (E) |
| Media | Compact Disc |
| System requirements | 100 MHz Pentium, 16 MB RAM, 40 MB hard disk space |
| Input methods | Keyboard, mouse |
Axis & Allies is a 1998 turn-based strategy game closely based on the board game of the same name.
Players take control of one five world powers at the start of 1942, grouped into the opposing factions of the Allies (USA, UK, and USSR) and the Axis (Germany and Japan). Victory conditions are set at the start of the game: Complete world domination, the capture of enemy capitals, or reaching a set level of economic power.
The game is turn-based, with the USSR acting first, and the USA acting last. Each country's turn of the game is broken into several phases. First is the research phase, where IPCs (a representation of industrial power) can be gambled in an attempt to develop advanced technology, such as jet engines or rockets. The remaining IPCs are then used to buy troops in the purchase phase. Troops are then moved in the combat move phase, and battles resolved in the combat phase. Non-combative moves are then performed in the non-combat move phase, and the turns ends.
A second edition of the game was released in 1999 titled Axis & Allies: Iron Blitz. It added a function to allow the third edition rules of the game as well as new features such as allowing a submarine to submerge instead of withdrawal and having multiple AA guns occupy the same territory. In addition, it included many alternate scenarios, providing for events that ranged from a Western Allied-Soviet war after WWII (Allies: UK/US VS Axis: Soviet Union/(Communist) Germany), to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact being made into a formal alliance, which in turns scares Japan into the Allies (Allies: UK/US/Japan VS Soviet-German Axis.) And, of course, there is the default scenario from the board game (Allies: UK/US/Soviet VS Germany/Japan.)
