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Hammer & Sickle

Hammer & Sickle is a turn-based strategy game with role playing elements that uses the Silent Storm engine and universe. The year is 1949, with the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union looming and both…

58 5 December 2005

Hammer & Sickle is a strategy, released 5 December 2005 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Hammer & Sickle is

Hammer & Sickle was released in 2005. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hammer & Sickle is a turn-based strategy game with role playing elements that uses the Silent Storm engine and universe. The year is 1949, with the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union looming and both sides uneasy at the thought of an atomic war occurring. The player takes the role of a Soviet commando on an undercover mission to meet a contact in Allied-occupied Germany. However, things go badly for this meeting, leaving the protagonist without proper support, equipment, and identification papers. Behind Allied-occupied lines, the player must attempt to stop a rogue third party intent on initiating World War III between the US and Russia. Players can choose to start with one of 6…
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How it plays

Its themes are fantasy and historical.

How it was received

Hammer & Sickle holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 9 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Hammer & Sickle launched on 5 December 2005, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Mario Kart DS. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS.

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When did Hammer & Sickle come out?
Hammer & Sickle was released on 5 December 2005 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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