The Polania campaign starts you off with just a few units, getting to know the basics, and it's a while until you get a mission where you can build your base and start making units. The design of the campaign missions themselves also leaves much to be desired. While the desire to tell a decent story in an RTS is admirable, Iron Harvest really doesn't have the writing or presentation quality to deliver it. There are in-engine cutscenes that look downright poor, and some pre-rendered ones that look marginally better. Even on maximum settings, the game doesn’t look particularly good, with basic lighting, combat effects, and audio design. The dialog is rather terribly voiced in English, as it uses authentic speakers for each language, so it's actually best to use the option of native audio. However, the story suffers due to the very basic writing and voice acting. To the game's credit, it tries to tell a fairly engaging story for an RTS, with a variety of cutscenes and lots of dialog. Lastly, the Saxony story follows Gunter von Duisburg who initially fights in the Great War, but eventually clashes heads with his leaders and finds himself an outsider. The Rusviet campaign, meanwhile, sees Olga Romanova try to uncover a secret plot to not only overthrow her own government, but also break down the peace talks. The Polania campaign follows a resistance group, led by Anna Kos, who refuses to be a pawn in the negotiations, as the Rusviets occupy her homeland. As the names might imply, the factions are based on Russia, Poland, and Germany. Following the Great War, the nations of Rusviet, Polania, and Saxony are trying to negotiate a peace treaty. The game tries to use this setting to the fullest by including a fairly lengthy single player campaign. This RTS takes players into the alternative history of 1920's, where the military also has access to great machines of war, capable of delivering some powerful ordinance to any battlefield. Iron Harvest's most memorable feature is perhaps the unique setting.
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