| Act of War: High Treason | |
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| Developer(s) | Eugen Systems |
| Publisher(s) | Atari |
| Designer(s) | Alexis Le Dressay |
| Series | Act of War: Direct Action |
| Version | 1.00b (April 13, 2006) |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
| Release date(s) | March 24, 2006 (EU) May 30, 2006 (NA) |
| Genre(s) | Real Time Strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ELSPA: 16+ ESRB: T (Teen) |
| Media/distribution | DVD (1), Steam |
| System requirements
Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or equivalent CPU, 256 MB RAM, 7 GB hard disk, DirectX 9.0c, 128 MB video card with pixel shader support. |
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Act of War: High Treason (abbreviated as AOW:HT) is an expansion pack for Act of War: Direct Action. It is developed by Eugen Systems and published by Atari.
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Act of War: High Treason takes place over the course of three days, three years after the events in Act of War: Direct Action.
On the eve of the U.S. Presidential election, President Baldwin is assassinated with an explosive device while his motorcade is leaving the White House. In the mean time, the two presidential candidates, Senator Watts and Vice President Cardiff are attacked. Major Jason Richter of Task Force Talon intervenes, sending Sergeant Major Ray Jefferson and Sergeant Oz Jackson respectively to rescue Senator Watts and Vice President Cardiff. Although both succeed, Watts disappears shortly thereafter and is announced dead. Cardiff survives and becomes the new President.
Several important government officials including General Kelly (high commander of the U.S. army) are arrested on conspiracy and assassinations charges. However, Red Cell, the military unit responsible for escorting Watts is not questioned. Richter sends Oz Jackson to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin to meet Colonel Whitemore, leader of the Red Cell. However, once there, he is attacked by U.S. Army forces, and is arrested for trespassing. Richter sends a small unit of Task Force Talon to rescue Oz Jackson and escape. Jefferson stays behind to find out what is really going on.
With the help of Jefferson, Richter and Task Force Talon track Whitemore's C-17 Globemaster transport carrying a shipment of USAMRIID biological barrels to Cancún, Mexico. There, they encounter the shipment recipient: the Consortium, a highly advanced and well-funded shadowy military organization which was assumed eradicated in the events of the original video game. They also discover that the biological cargo contains X-357, a virus which is deadly against animals, but harmless against humans. Task Force Talon commandeers a Consortium Visby-class corvette and escapes Cancún, pursuing a trio of Consortium Typhoon class submarines carrying the biological samples.
Richter and his Task Force Talon, who are now officially marked as traitors, meets up with Admiral Burns and the USS Tarawa aircraft carrier. Having come under Consortium fire, Burns help them destroy two of three submarines land in Cuba. In Cuba, they discover that President Cardiff is working with the Consortium and is behind Baldwin's assassination. Task Force Talon invades a Consortium hacienda in Cuba in search of the last submarine and a Consortium biological weapons expert, Dr. Morello.
Task Force Talon fails to find Morello or retrieve the biological sample. However, they find Senator Watts, still alive. Transferring him to a friendly U.S. Naval base in the Bahamas, Watts gives a speech on live television testifying against Cardiff and the Consortium. An enraged Cardiff orders Whitemore to destroy Richter at all costs. Dr. Morello agrees but declares that Cardiff has outlived his usefulness. Major Richter and the U.S. forces defend the area against hostile converted U.S forces until Watts finishes his speech and is sent to America so that he may testify in the United States Congress against Cardiff. Richter also learns that the Consortium plans on mutating X-357 so that it can kill humans, but this can only be done in space.
Task Force Talon travels to Cape Canaveral where X-357 is scheduled for launch into space via Space Shuttle Liberty. Jefferson attempts to stop the shuttle launch but fails. The 52nd, 104th and 81st airborne divisions guarding the launch site attack the Task Force Talon, whom are still marked as traitors. Not long later however, the Congress impeaches President Cardiff. Subsequently, General Kelly is reinstated and the 52nd and 81st cease firing on Task Force Talon; the 104th under the command of Colonel Whitemore and the Consortium continues to fight, only to be destroyed.
Space Shuttle Liberty is tracked to its landing zone in the Taklamakan Desert in Central Asia, where Consortium's main base of operation is located. Subsequently, the U.S. Army attacks the landing site and eradicates the virus with an experimental bomb. The rest of the Consortium forces are eradicated. The epilogue reveals that Cardiff's body is found in a river, while Senator Watts's presidential campaign is virtually unopposed. Major Richter and the other personnel of Task Force Talon, believed to be missing in action, are on vacation in the Bahamas.
Atari and Eugen Systems have released the first patch for Act Of War: High Treason with lots of fixes. The Size of the patch is 175 MB.
The Patch 1 includes:
Note :- The modding tool and map editor is included in the Patch.
| Reception | |
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 74% [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | B- [2] |
| Eurogamer | 5 of 10 [3] |
| GameSpot | 8 of 10[4] |