Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
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| Developer(s) | Spark Unlimited |
| Publisher(s) | Codemasters |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 3.0 |
| Platform(s) | Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC |
| Release | February 26, 2008[1] |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Online multiplayer |
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty is an upcoming first-person shooter, developed by Spark Unlimited for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC based on an alternate history in which Winston Churchill dies in 1931, eight years before the start of World War II asking what would have happened without his leadership. After England's conquest by the Third Reich, Europe and North Africa eventually fall to Nazi Germany and its Axis allies. An invasion of the isolationist United States in 1953 is launched, allowing the Nazis to install a puppet president during their occupation. Not much more is known about this game at this time. Release is set for early 2008. A demo was released for Xbox 360 in January 2008.
Plot
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty is based on an alternate history where the point of divergence occurs with Winston Churchill's death in 1931 from being hit by a cab in New York City instead of surviving.[2] Without his leadership, England falls to the Third Reich which successfully follows through with Operation Sealion, swiftly overrunning resistance and forcing Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, to surrender. Presumably, the rest of Europe, Ireland, Iceland and Greenland also fall to the Axis Powers soon afterwards.
This allows the Axis to sweep across North Africa unopposed and take the Mideast oil fields to fuel their conquest of the politically isolated Soviet Union. A period of development follows the Third Reich's success resulting in further weapon advances, eventually enabling a surprise attack on the American Eastern Seaboard in 1953. The opening scene in the game places the player, a construction worker named Dan Carson, right in the heat of a surprise attack on New York City.[3]
The game includes more advanced versions of Axis weapons including new ones that were being researched and developed late during World War II, but never made it to production. Superheavy tanks such as the Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus and Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte will appear, according to what the developers have said in their interview videos.[citation needed]
One departure from more traditional first-person shooters is that the player is not a soldier; in fact the main character has no connection to the military. The player is Dan Carson, an average construction worker and instead of trying to win the war single-handedly, like in some other war-based FPS games, the main objective is simply to survive total war.[4] Little has leaked, but it is confirmed that you will play and fight in locations such as Washington, New York and London.
Demo
A short demo was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace on the 25th of January, showing the start of the game, weapons confirmed are the Gewehr 47 rifle, a successor of the Gewehr 43, the Mauser 1935 Pistol, and the MP50. The demo also demonstrated some of the game features such as grappling and using people as human shields. The demo has received some negative feedback from game sites hoping for a new classic. [5]
References
- ^ http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/t/turningpointfallofliberty/
- ^ Williamson Murray, "What a Taxi Driver Wrought," What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, Robert Cowley, ed. (New York: Berkley Books, 2000) 306-307.
- ^ Griffin, Mike (June), "Turning Point: Fall of Liberty", Play, vol. 6, no. 6, p. 48
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