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Codename Eagle
By James Cobb

Fig. 1. Codename Eagle

Alternate history demands a suspension of belief. In Talonsoft's Codename Eagle, we are asked to believe that an energetic Tsar pulls Imperial Russia to the height of industrial and technological excellence in the 1920's. Of course, he then threatens the rest of Europe. OK, our belief is suspended and we can accept anything that follows.

Codename Eagle is a first-person shooter in the tradition of Wolfenstein 3-D. Its alternate setting releases it from comparisons with more sophisticated examples of the genre such as Rainbow 5 and Hidden and Dangerous. The key word to this game is "fun", not realism, so it must be judged by that criterion,

Soloing

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Play is divided into two parts. The first is a series of twelve scripted missions where the player's character, Red, and his teammates, Goggles and Mortar, thwart a scheme to bombard London with missiles and flood Europe with poison gas. In the course of their activities, they go through a journey of fast adventure and, at the end, self-discovery.

Fig. 2. A heavily armed Red goes gunning