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Wargasm (video game)

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Playable characters available to the player are a regular infantryman, or a special forces soldier driving either a tank, an armored personnel carrier or a helicopter. The in-battle event of airstrikes are carried out by
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directs the actions of AI friendly units via a simple control interface on a 2D overhead map, and if desired can take the perspective of, and directly control, any allied unit in the 3D real-time environment.
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The game is set in the year 2065, and the world's military forces have been transferred to the World Wide War Web in an effort to eliminate the loss of actual human life. Every country, whether they be a
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The game uses the 3Dream engine to process populated and varied battlefields, as well as relatively advanced graphical elements for its time of release. Acting as the commander of an army, the player of
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has a clever moniker that makes you take notice. But even that was stolen outright from
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This article is about the video game. For the London-based band, see
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Presley, Paul (September 1998). "DID Changes Tack with Wargasm".
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The game received above-average reviews according to the
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