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Tom Clancy's ruthless.com

This isn't business. This is war. How far will you go? The simultaneous turn-based strategy game that lets you build a corporation atop the bodies of your competition. Use thugs, hackers or the occasional…

30 November 1998

Tom Clancy's ruthless.com is a strategy developed by Red Storm Entertainment, released 30 November 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Tom Clancy's ruthless.com is

Tom Clancy's ruthless.com is a strategy game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and released in 1998. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

This isn't business. This is war. How far will you go? The simultaneous turn-based strategy game that lets you build a corporation atop the bodies of your competition. Use thugs, hackers or the occasional lawyer to get what you want, the way you want. You don't need ethics, just greed, ego and a few wicked instincts. Ever thrown a lawyer off a pier? Hacked into a mainframe to swipe classified information? If not, then it's time you went into business with Tom Clancy's ruthless.com. Find out if you have what it takes not only to survive but to dominate in an industry of cutthroats and corporate raiders. You can forget about ethics- succeeding here means putting all your strategy skills into…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Tom Clancy’s series

Tom Clancy's ruthless.com is the 12th of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. The next entry was Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear in 1999.

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What it launched against

Tom Clancy's ruthless.com launched on 30 November 1998, within three weeks of Half-Life, Suikoden II, Mario Party and Thief: The Dark Project.

Released around the same time: Half-Life, Suikoden II, Mario Party, Thief: The Dark Project.

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Tom Clancy's ruthless.com was released on 30 November 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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