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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Several aspects of the game's 2020 setting are based around assumptions that, as of the real 2020, turned out to be false.
** The technology of the setting is generally much more advanced than actually turned out to be developed. There is no missile shield, no military super-space station, laser weapons are still in the experimental phase, the US and Russia still mostly use variants of the M1 Abrams and T-90, and so on.
** A UnitedEurope, while still a plausible development, did not occur and is now much more unlikely due to the rise of both nationalist and left-wing "Eurosceptic" political parties in European countries.
** While relations between Russia and the West continued to deteriorate, Russia never became extremely powerful as the result of it becoming the world's leading energy supplier. Rather, the shale oil and gas boom in the United States resulted in ''America'' becoming the world's largest oil producer by 2020, with Russia's energy-reliant economy struggling due to the supply glut.
** There was no nuclear war in the Middle East. Though the Middle East/North Africa region was incredibly unstable throughout most of the 2010s (with Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq all falling into civil war, and many other countries experiencing mass protests, coups, and revolutions), it never collapsed into full anarchy, and by the end of the decade Israel remained the region's only nuclear power.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mined files reveal that the Prelude to War mode had 13 missions rather than 9, expanding the game's backstory and offering additional tutorials on some of the game's features.
** The technology of the setting is generally much more advanced than actually turned out to be developed. There is no missile shield, no military super-space station, laser weapons are still in the experimental phase, the US and Russia still mostly use variants of the M1 Abrams and T-90, and so on.
** A UnitedEurope, while still a plausible development, did not occur and is now much more unlikely due to the rise of both nationalist and left-wing "Eurosceptic" political parties in European countries.
** While relations between Russia and the West continued to deteriorate, Russia never became extremely powerful as the result of it becoming the world's leading energy supplier. Rather, the shale oil and gas boom in the United States resulted in ''America'' becoming the world's largest oil producer by 2020, with Russia's energy-reliant economy struggling due to the supply glut.
** There was no nuclear war in the Middle East. Though the Middle East/North Africa region was incredibly unstable throughout most of the 2010s (with Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq all falling into civil war, and many other countries experiencing mass protests, coups, and revolutions), it never collapsed into full anarchy, and by the end of the decade Israel remained the region's only nuclear power.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mined files reveal that the Prelude to War mode had 13 missions rather than 9, expanding the game's backstory and offering additional tutorials on some of the game's features.
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** The technology of the setting is generally much more advanced than actually turned out to be developed. There is no missile shield, no military super-space station, laser weapons are still in the experimental phase, the US and Russia still mostly use variants of the M1 Abrams and T-90, and so on.
** A UnitedEurope, while still a plausible development, did not occur and is now much more unlikely due to the rise of both nationalist and left-wing "Eurosceptic" political parties in European countries.
** While relations between Russia and the West continued to deteriorate, Russia never became extremely powerful as the result of it becoming the world's leading energy supplier. Rather, the shale oil and gas boom in the United States resulted in ''America'' becoming the world's largest oil producer by 2020, with Russia's energy-reliant economy struggling due to the supply glut.
** There was no nuclear war in the Middle East. Though the Middle East/North Africa region was incredibly unstable throughout most of the 2010s (with Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq all falling into civil war, and many other countries experiencing mass protests, coups, and revolutions), it never collapsed into full anarchy, and by the end of the decade Israel remained the region's only nuclear power.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Several aspects of the game's 2020 setting are based around assumptions that, as of the real 2020, turned out to be false.
** The technology of the setting is generally much more advanced than actually turned out to be developed. There is no missile shield, no military super-space station, laser weapons are still in the experimental phase, the US and Russia still mostly use variants of the M1 Abrams and T-90, and so on.
** A UnitedEurope, while still a plausible development, did not occur and is now much more unlikely due to the rise of both nationalist and left-wing "Eurosceptic" political parties in European countries.
** While relations between Russia and the West continued to deteriorate, Russia never became extremely powerful as the result of it becoming the world's leading energy supplier. Rather, the shale oil and gas boom in the United States resulted in ''America'' becoming the world's largest oil producer by 2020, with Russia's energy-reliant economy struggling due to the supply glut.
** There was no nuclear war in the Middle East. Though the Middle East/North Africa region was incredibly unstable throughout most of the 2010s (with Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq all falling into civil war, and many other countries experiencing mass protests, coups, and revolutions), it never collapsed into full anarchy, and by the end of the decade Israel remained the region's only nuclear power.
** The technology of the setting is generally much more advanced than actually turned out to be developed. There is no missile shield, no military super-space station, laser weapons are still in the experimental phase, the US and Russia still mostly use variants of the M1 Abrams and T-90, and so on.
** A UnitedEurope, while still a plausible development, did not occur and is now much more unlikely due to the rise of both nationalist and left-wing "Eurosceptic" political parties in European countries.
** While relations between Russia and the West continued to deteriorate, Russia never became extremely powerful as the result of it becoming the world's leading energy supplier. Rather, the shale oil and gas boom in the United States resulted in ''America'' becoming the world's largest oil producer by 2020, with Russia's energy-reliant economy struggling due to the supply glut.
** There was no nuclear war in the Middle East. Though the Middle East/North Africa region was incredibly unstable throughout most of the 2010s (with Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq all falling into civil war, and many other countries experiencing mass protests, coups, and revolutions), it never collapsed into full anarchy, and by the end of the decade Israel remained the region's only nuclear power.
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* StillbornFranchise: An expected sequel has been indefinitely postponed, before being rebranded as ''EndWar Online'' which was announced in 2013, with little word of its development since.
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* StillbornFranchise: An expected sequel has been indefinitely postponed, before being rebranded as ''EndWar Online'' which was announced in 2013, with little word of its development since.since.
*WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mined files reveal that the Prelude to War mode had 13 missions rather than 9, expanding the game's backstory and offering additional tutorials on some of the game's features.
*WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mined files reveal that the Prelude to War mode had 13 missions rather than 9, expanding the game's backstory and offering additional tutorials on some of the game's features.
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* LifeImitatesArt: The amount of in-game news reports that came true by 2020 is a scary example of this. Influenza M? Wildifres in the Western US? Mass unrest?
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* LifeImitatesArt: The amount of in-game news reports that came true by 2020 is a scary example of this. Influenza M? Wildifres in the Western US?
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* LifeImitatesArt: The amount of in-game news reports that came true by 2020 is a scary example of this. Influenza M? Wildifres in the Western US? Mass unrest?
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* LifeImitatesArt: The amount of in-game news reports that came true by 2020 is a scary example of this. Influenza M? Wildifres in the Western US?
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* BannedInChina: Quite cleverly averted by the devs at Ubisoft Shanghai. Since depicting the general devastation of China foreign invaders is strictly prohibited by the Government, China is knocked out of the running as a global superpower by suffering a ''total societal implosion'' thanks to the economic crisis which begins the war. However, since this happens offscreen, everything's A-Okay as far as Beijing is concerned.
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* BannedInChina: Quite cleverly averted by the devs at Ubisoft Shanghai. Since depicting the general devastation of China China, foreign invaders is strictly prohibited by the Government, China is knocked out of the running as a global superpower by suffering a ''total societal implosion'' thanks to the economic crisis which begins the war. However, since this happens offscreen, everything's A-Okay as far as Beijing is concerned.
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* BannedInChina: Quite cleverly averted by the devs at Ubisoft Shanghai. Since depicting the general devastation of China by foreign invaders isn't allowed, China is knocked out of the running as a global superpower by suffering a ''total societal implosion'' thanks to the economic crisis which begins the war. However, since this happens offscreen, everything's A-Okay as far as Beijing is concerned.
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* BannedInChina: Quite cleverly averted by the devs at Ubisoft Shanghai. Since depicting the general devastation of China by foreign invaders isn't allowed, is strictly prohibited by the Government, China is knocked out of the running as a global superpower by suffering a ''total societal implosion'' thanks to the economic crisis which begins the war. However, since this happens offscreen, everything's A-Okay as far as Beijing is concerned.
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* BannedInChina: Quite cleverly averted by the devs at Ubisoft Shanghai. Since depicting the general devastation of China by foreign invaders isn't allowed, China is knocked out of the running as a global superpower by suffering a ''total societal implosion'' thanks to the economic crisis which begins the war. However, since this happens offscreen, everything's A-Okay as far as Beijing is concerned.
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* BannedInChina: Quite cleverly averted by the devs at Ubisoft Shanghai. Since depicting the general devastation of China by foreign invaders isn't allowed, China is knocked out of the running as a global superpower by suffering a ''total societal implosion'' thanks to the economic crisis which begins the war. However, since this happens offscreen, everything's A-Okay as far as Beijing is concerned.concerned.
* StillbornFranchise: An expected sequel has been indefinitely postponed, before being rebranded as ''EndWar Online'' which was announced in 2013, with little word of its development since.
* StillbornFranchise: An expected sequel has been indefinitely postponed, before being rebranded as ''EndWar Online'' which was announced in 2013, with little word of its development since.
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* BannedInChina: Quite cleverly averted by the devs at Ubisoft Shanghai. Since depicting the general devastation of China by foreign invaders isn't allowed, China is knocked out of the running as a global superpower by suffering a ''total societal implosion'' thanks to the economic crisis which begins the war. However, since this happens offscreen, everything's A-Okay as far as Beijing is concerned.
