Nuclear Dawn
Nuclear Dawn is a multiplayer modification for Valve's Source engine that combines visceral and violent First Person Shooter action with fast-paced Real Time Strategy in the aftermath of an apocalyptic war. You can choose the mission or lead the attack as a commander, marshalling resources and deploying weapons and equipment for your team to use.
You can storm a building as an assault trooper, cling to the shadows and rely on your active camouflage as a stealth, or unleash terrible firepower from a powered suit of exo-armor. You have the responsibility and the power to decide the outcome of every engagement. If your opponents are lucky there will be enough of them left to bury.
Gameplay Information
Pillars of incandescent fire boiled to the heavens in every direction, burning bright and dark, like the clasped fingers of God trying to enclose the world. In 2024 the proud nations of man wiped each other out in the Nuclear Dawn. Millions were incinerated instantly and hundreds of millions died within the following days.
With the human race on the brink of extinction and the whole world teetering on the edge of annihilation, we did the only thing that made sense. We kept fighting.
Old enemies of the East and West continue the war in a brutal series of skirmishes throughout the dead cities of a bygone era. The Consortium of Free States unites the survivors of the Western powers beneath a military dictatorship and relies on its Asymmetrical Warfare Division to plunder the lost artifacts of mankind’s golden age. The People’s Empire wields its elite Red Sword to check the advances of the Consortium and strike deep into the dark heart of the wastelands. Resources, relics, and hidden treasures draw both factions into an endless cycle of battle and you are on the frontlines.
Nuclear Dawn is a multiplayer modification for Valve’s Source engine that combines visceral and violent First Person Shooter action with fast-paced Real Time Strategy in the aftermath of an apocalyptic war. You can choose the mission or lead the attack as a commander, marshalling resources and deploying weapons and equipment for your team to use. You can storm a building as an assault trooper, cling to the shadows and rely on your active camouflage as a stealth, or unleash terrible firepower from a powered suit of exo-armor. You have the responsibility and the power to decide the outcome of every engagement. If your opponents are lucky there will be enough of them left to bury.
On the field
-Three distinct classes to choose from with strengths and weaknesses that will help you overpower your opponents or keep you on guard
-A wide arsenal of weapons to deploy on the battlefield including mines, grenades, rifles, rocket launchers, and much more.
-Original environments rich with detail and perfect for a nice and bloody battle. Take the streets of a desolate Japanese city, venture into the jungle to capture the live warhead inside a Korean nuclear silo, or fight for the treasures of one of several other post-apocalyptic locales.
As a commander
-Objective-based game play emphasizes coordinated tactics.
-The environment and physics shape your strategy. Create chokepoints, defensive positions, and blast your way through the enemy positions.
-Build a multitude of different structures to aid your team in its conquest. From a gateway that can bring in reinforcements directly to the battlefield to turrets that will pound your enemies into submission.
-Choose your team's path with an intuitive but deep technology tree.
-Secure resource points to deploy weapons and equipment to aid your team.
Nuclear Dawn brings intense team-based game play with all original content to the Half Life 2 community. We are committed to making a game that everyone will want to play and if you have any suggestions or comments we take them all seriously.
The story
The World of Nuclear Dawn is one of constant conflict. The Information Age has given birth to the Nanotech Age and a bright light of hope shone, though be it briefly, for all to see. That light has long since been extinguished by a devastating global war. All of the nations of the world have been toppled by the apocalyptic war known as The Third. Nuclear, biological, and nanotech attacks have cut the world’s population in half. Great cities lay in state, abandoned and silent or fused and ruined by the suddenness of an atomic attack, their secrets and their technology waiting to be recaptured.
The tattered remnants of the world’s militaries have proven to be the strongest of the survivors of this terrible war and they now rule over the world as brutal dictators. While smaller factions and enclaves are marginalized, absorbed, or destroyed, the two great powers that faced off in The Third have slowly reorganized. Both are afraid to escalate old rivalries to a war that will finish mankind off once and for all, but both are fueled by vengeance for past wrongs.
http://www.nuclear-dawn.net/images/game/empire_logo_small.jpg In China and Russia, a crazed despot by the name of Jiang Di Zhai controls the transparent dictatorship of the People’s Empire from Beijing. This former general and commando leader sustained grievous wounds fighting against the United States in Japan. His face is a mass of scar tissue and he has three cybernetic prosthetics. He is renowned for giving multi-hour speeches condemning his Western rivals for atrocities and demanding retribution. His counterpart in Russia is completely subservient.
http://www.nuclear-dawn.net/images/game/consortium_logo_small.jpg The Consortium of Free States represents Western Europe and the United States. It is divided roughly along former national borders with various petty military dictators ruling over each “free state”. At the top is United States Naval Admiral Arnold H. Westfall. He is a brilliant but ruthlessly calculating leader and refuses to give an inch to the Empire for even a moment’s peace. He personally authorizes every raid on Imperial territory; the many lost cities and relies on the superior technology and training of his troops to win out against the superior numbers of the enemy encountered.
The war of 2027 is being fought by the elite, one raid at a time, and both sides are nervously waiting for a vague line to be crossed and a fourth world war to erupt. Until that day comes they fight on, through the quiet streets of lost cities and in the research and command centres of their enemy, using the technological relics of a brighter age.
