I don’t know if it’s cheerier or far more grim for an XCOM-ish turn-based tactical game to be set against the very real backdrop of the planet-ashing Cold War rather than a humanity-mulching alien invasion, but I look forward to finding out in Phantom Doctrine. Developers CreativeForge Games, who you might remember from their ‘XCOM/Jagged Alliance but demonic cowboys’ game Hard West, today announced plans to launch Phantom Doctrine on August 14th – just over a month from now. It’s an interesting-looking one, supposedly with scope to complete missions with spy stealth as well as Rambo III megamurder. Here, a new trailer introduces the premise. (more…)
XCOM-ish spy game Phantom Doctrine due in August
