Conflict Zone

Conflict Zone: Modern War Strategy

Developer(s) MASA Group
Publisher(s) Ubisoft
Platform(s) Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Windows
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Real time strategy
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer
Distribution GD-ROM, CD-ROM

Conflict Zone: Modern War Strategy is a war-themed real-time strategy game, developed by MASA Group and published by Ubisoft for Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and Microsoft Windows.

Story

It's the early 21st century and the majority of the world's countries have created the ICP (International Corps for Peace), an organization dedicated to bringing about world peace. However, not all countries are keen to be involved and these persist in generating conflicts through the organisation GHOST. A secret organisation, which warrants only the economic interests of its members without any attachment to morals, GHOST, does not hesitate to create crisis situations with the goal of destabilising the worldwide equilibrium and endanger any chance of peace.

Gameplay

There are 2 playable campaigns in Conflict Zone: the GHOST campaign, and the ICP campaign. Missions take place in locations and involve fictional conflicts such as a civil war in Ukraine, war between Indonesia and Malaysia, India and Pakistan and Nigeria and Niger. Most missions require the player to build a base in order to successfully complete the mission. The civilians are taken to your base to earn money from propagandistic popularity, so instead of destroying supply depots like most games you have to kill the civilians that linger in the enemy's base. There are several buildings which can be built, including refugee/enlistment camps (refugee camps for the ICP, enlistment camps for the GHOST), barracks, vehicle factories, and logistics buildings (which speed up unit and structure construction/training times).

Conflict Zone's main innovation was the use of propaganda, which was crucial in the game: acting in a way that brought public attention against the player's side made the game harder. In addition, both the ICP and the GHOST have their own advantages. The ICP had more advanced units, but could command less units in total than the GHOST, and ICP units were more expensive. The GHOST units on the other hand, were cheaper and could be fielded in larger numbers, but they were less advanced than their ICP counterparts.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
AggregatorScore
GameRankings(PC) 68%[1]
(PS2) 56.88%[2]
(DC) 54.20%[3]
Metacritic(PC) 59/100[4]
(DC) 55/100[5]
(PS2) 47/100[6]
Review scores
PublicationScore
Eurogamer6/10[7]
GameSpot(PC) 4.4/10[8]
(DC) 4.2/10[9]
GameSpy(DC) 7.5/10[10]
(PC) 50%[11]
IGN(PC) 6.7/10[12]
(DC) 5.6/10[13]
(PS2) 4.1/10[14]
Official PlayStation Magazine (US)[15]
PC Gamer (US)60%[16]
PC Zone70%[17]
PlayStation Magazine5/10[18]
X-Play[19]

The game was met with mixed to negative reception. In chronological order, GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 68% and 59 out of 100 for the PC version;[1][4] 54.20% and 55 out of 100 for the Dreamcast version;[3][5] and 56.88% and 47 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version.[2][6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Conflict Zone for PC". GameRankings. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Conflict Zone for PlayStation 2". GameRankings. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Conflict Zone for Dreamcast". GameRankings. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Conflict Zone for PC Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Conflict Zone for Dreamcast Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Conflict Zone for PlayStation 2 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  7. ↑ Bye, John "Gestalt" (June 7, 2001). "Conflict Zone (PC)". Eurogamer. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  8. ↑ Beers, Craig (November 15, 2001). "Conflict Zone Review (PC)". GameSpot. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ Shoemaker, Brad (January 11, 2002). "Conflict Zone Review (DC)". GameSpot. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  10. ↑ Retrovertigo (December 24, 2001). "Conflict Zone". PlanetDreamcast. Archived from the original on January 25, 2009. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  11. ↑ Suciu, Peter (January 5, 2002). "Conflict Zone: Modern War Strategy". GameSpy. Archived from the original on June 29, 2004. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  12. ↑ Blake, Bill (December 3, 2001). "Conflict Zone (PC)". IGN. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  13. ↑ Chau, Anthony (January 7, 2002). "Conflict Zone (DC)". IGN. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  14. ↑ Dunham, Jeremy (November 26, 2002). "Conflict Zone (PS2)". IGN. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  15. ↑ Rybicki, Joe (December 2002). "Conflict Zone". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine: 158. Archived from the original on June 26, 2004. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  16. ↑ Poole, Stephen (December 25, 2001). "Conflict Zone". PC Gamer: 76. Archived from the original on October 6, 2003. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  17. ↑ Pratchett, Rhianna (2001). "PC Review: Conflict Zone". PC Zone. Archived from the original on June 24, 2007. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  18. ↑ "Review: Conflict Zone". PSM: 42. January 2003.
  19. ↑ Bemis, Greg (December 4, 2002). "'Conflict Zone' (PS2) Review". X-Play. Archived from the original on December 16, 2002. Retrieved December 14, 2014.

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