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Cold War

Mindware Studios · THQ Nordic · 2014-01-08

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player

Steal weapons. Improvise gadgets. Evade capture. Uncover the conspiracy.The Story:On the run and fighting for your life, you are freelance journalist Matt Carter. Twelve hours after arriving in Moscow for a routine story, you've been stripped of all possessions, beaten unconscious and thrown into the KGB's political prison.

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It's 1986, and the United States and the Soviet Union are taking the first tentative steps toward perestroika - a sense of friendship and cooperation that has not existed between the two world superpowers for decades. It appears that the Cold War might actually be over. Unfortunately, not everyone thinks that glasnost is a good thing. A fundamentalist faction within the Soviet government doesn't want the Cold War to thaw - they want it to heat up. Led by Barinsky, the radical head of the KGB, a group of separatists is making a last, desperate attempt to return the USSR to the control of the h(Storyline via IGDB)

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WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain

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