Theatre of War 3: Korea

$6.99

Release Date:: Mar 24, 2011
Metacritic:: 49
Developer:: Fulqrum Publishing
Publisher:: Fulqrum Publishing
Platforms:: Windows

Strategy Family Sharing Multi-player Single-player Steam Cloud Includes level editor

About This Game

Replay the events of the first hot war of the Cold War era, the Korean War, also known as the Forgotten War. Players will be involved in two campaigns, both set in the 1950’s: the North Korean (June 25 – August 20) and the American (September 15 – October 8).
In this title tactical engagement experts can test their skills on a new strategic level. Move your forces over the entire Korean Peninsula, managing reserves, as well as the fuel and ammo supplies. Tactical battles in Theatre of War 3: Korea are generated based on the strategic situation.

Key features:

A new strategic mode greatly enhances the experience of tactical battles
Non-linear dynamic campaigns, a first for the series
Campaign generator with additional USSR faction for creating “what-if” scenarios
Unique landscape modeling for correct infantry combat simulation
Lots of new artillery, armor and aviation units, e.g. transport helicopters
Updated control system focusing more on squads and not on individual soldiers
Engineer Corps: real-time mining and demining
Detailed replication of authentic Korean landscape and architecture
New binocular view feature for total immersion

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User Reviews

Mixed

4 user reviews

50%

Positive

User #081705 english

13 hrs at review

Recommended

Considering the cheap price, it's hard to downvote it and it's the best of the (limited) number of Korean War games that are out there. That said it's clearly half finished and the somewhat designed campaigns of the past games are ditched for a Total War style map campaign where you fight essentially MP bot matches over and over with a campaign map progression system. It's also decently more buggy and prone to crashing so save often. Still, it's a shame they never made another game after this, leaving WarGaming basically purely Close Combat and Combat Mission from this point onwards.