Shattered Union comes complete with campaign, skirmish, and multiplayer modes. Each one is attempting to re-unite the United States and cast the new America in its own image. as an occupying army, effectively forms a seventh power on the continent. The European Union, desperate to restore order to avoid the worldwide repercussions of a second Civil War, invades the area around Washington D.C. The secession starts with California and Texas declaring their independence, followed quickly by the northwest states of Pacifica, the Great Plains, the New Confederacy, and the New England Alliance. breaks up into six squabbling nation states. When an atomic bomb detonates in Washington D.C., eliminating the entire Presidential line of succession, the U.S. A disputed Presidential election and a spate of domestic terrorism incidents push the United States into increased sectarian squabbling. Shattered Union begins with a premise that hits way too close to home for Americans in these troubled times. Based on the early version we've been playing around with, it's another example of a simple surface with lots of turn-based strategic fun underneath. Perhaps they'll finally get their due once Shattered Union hits store shelves. Once you dug under the surface, though, there was a whole lot of strategy goodness to sink your teeth into. The strategic depths of the two Railroad Tycoon sequels and Tropico were masked by being pegged as business sims, or because they had candy coatings. Maybe it's because they always seem to pick the most unlikely topics to build a strategy game around.
SHATTERED UNION THE CONFEDERACY SOFTWARE
It's amazing to me that PopTop software doesn't get more credit than they do for producing quality strategy games.
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