This is your bog-standard point and click interface. This first sequence contains all the elements that make up the game:
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The game manual tells you exactly how to do this, and also how to team up with the drunken Johann. As soon as you find this out the Gestapo pounce and you are soon presented with the first puzzle in the game: how to escape from the dungeon cell. He is a hunted man with a DEEP DARK SECRET involving an old map (this map is not for mortals, you hear?). It begins with your character arriving at a French village to meet an old friend, an antiques dealer. The plot alludes to the occult, mad schemes and collusion between Russians and Germans (historically a sore point for Poland). I didn't get far enough to see if there's a "get the girl" element, but I doubt it. The story? Your hero character has to solve a mystery and save the world, of course. Each level gained gives you more points which you can assign to skills and abilities. As you kill more Germans (there's a lot of that going on) your character will gain experience points which will periodically bump him up a level. When you start the game you have to set up your character and give him Strength, Luck, Agility, Charisma and so on. Each one has special strengths and weaknesses - the Thief is good with a knife, the Strongman with his fists, and the Intellectual with a pistol (does it take brains to use a pistol?). This holy trinity of gaming has been transposed to the WWII setting as follows : Thief (again), Strongman and Intellectual. In a traditional Role Playing Game you might expect to choose a hero character, normally a thief, a warrior, or a cleric/wizard. This graphical similarity is where Another War goes off the main road and tries to hack a new path into RPG-land. friends of the reviewer who have indeed played Baldur's Gate) agree that the isometric viewpoint and pre-rendered 2D maps are in the same style. Please bear in mind that this reviewer has played neither but reliable sources (i.e. The game's official website claims that Another War's look and feel are inspired by Baldur's Gate and the Fallout series. You will encounter a lot of the above in this game, as well as knowing references to 'Allo 'Allo, HP Lovecraft and Monty Python. Another War, from Polish developers Mirage Interactive, takes the RPG to 1940s Europe and fills it with Nazis, French cheese, wine, hunting knives and Walther PPKs.
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