Friday, December 15, 2017

News:: Phantom Doctrine is like XCOM that trades aliens for spies and lies

It's nearly impossible to succinctly sum up Phantom Doctrine. "Turn-based tactical strategy game centered around Cold War-era conspiracy theories" is the closest I've gotten. That's still six (six?) adjectives and adverbs, and it doesn't get close to telling the whole story.

Pulling all the way back reveals Phantom Doctrine's most alluring promise. Developer CreativeForge is taking real events from the Cold War and repurposing them in an alternate history. In the game, you run a counter-intelligence agency called The Cabal who's out to expose the secrets of the world's most powerful agencies.

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