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[a1s]

I have recently found Original War. It's a strategy game with incredibly high emphasis on characters (hero units if you will, but also for most of the game your only units). The game has a non-linear plot about time travel (technically. You don't actually travel through time during game play, just go back 2M years in the "first" mission).

anyways, I have a question for people who played it:

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In mission 3 is there a way to save Andy Cornell? It seems no matter what I do, he "screws up" and his men are "picked apart" by the Russians.

[BigFatDwarf]

Hell yeah.

One of my favorite games, especially since it cuts off the ''human factory'' and you only have a few people to assign around.

Only thing missing was a skirmish mode, other than that, it had great ambient and all. Also nice storyline choices and all. And you can pick either Russians or teh US of A.

Hmm, it was a while since I played OW, could you describe mission 3 a bit, maybe some memory will kick in.

Is it the one where you operate your first base and need to pick off a Russian outpost to the south?

[a1s]

yep that's the one. Except you are not supposed to pick the outpost off, just punch through to the exit. It's not hard to destroy that base however. Actually no, what you are thinking of is mission 2.
 The story there is this: you meet your old friend Andrew Cornell, and are instructed by Powell to split into two groups and try to break through in two places simultaneously. You then get a base where you construct your first solar powered vehicles and learn about Crates. Also you meet Forsythe , a scout, who just stole all the toilet paper from the Russians (that guy is awesome incarnated!). At some point Cornell tells you that it's time to attack, and after a while you get a second message telling you that the Russians are picking his men off.

[BigFatDwarf]

Oh yeah, that one. Yeah, I think there is a way. If you go after him, you'll get yelled at by Powell, but you save your friend and he joins you. I can't be really sure though. Well, you also need to kill a few Reds.

But my memory might be failing me, I last played that game half a year ago.

Too bad my Install CD got partially ruined, has a hard time reading from it. Otherwise I'd go play it.

[a1s]

That doesn't seem to work. Cornell just exits the map in the first 30 seconds and you can't talk to him. Good news though, He comes back later- beaten and starved, but alive - in the mission where Powell sends you to cooperate with the "arabs" (they're all Germans and Czechs!) on the Siberite research.

Also I found this. That makes a bit more sense than the actual story of the game. (BTW in the game when McMillan and Mikhail Berezov (the prisoner) talk, McMillan claims that Prokhorov was the president of Russia. The following cut scene correctly names Putin as the man who "failed to become president" though, so it's a leftover thing from that story!).