Activision will be making HISTORY Civil War: Secret Missions available across four platforms later this year – on the PC to accompany console owners of the Xbox 360, PS3 and PS2. Guess the Wii has been left out yet again in a multi-platform release – could it be because there is just not that much graphical firepower in Nintendo’s best selling small, white box? Questions aside, let us take a look at this whole new episode in the HISTORY Civil War franchise that will see the player take on the roles of both Union and Confederate soldiers as they rough it out in the name of “freedom”.

The player’s goal in HISTORY Civil War: Secret Missions is to disrupt the armies of both the North and the South by any means necessary, including conducting train raids, stealing ironclad ships, stopping enemy supply lines, destroying enemy artillery and more. All events are drawn from the real life actions of famous partisans, scouts and rangers – fight as a member of Mosby’s Rangers, Sheridan’s Scouts and Grant’s Secret Service and receive your mission commands from famous generals including Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall” Jackson, and Ulysses Grant. The action in HISTORY Civil War: Secret Mission accurately reflects the guerrilla tactics of the time period. Weapons include the shotgun, the pepperbox revolver and the coffee mill gun, and there is heavy reliance on scouts and naval warfare.

This title has yet to be rated by the ESRB, but at least the pricing details are already available. Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions will retail for $49.99 a pop, while the PS2 version is $10 cheaper with the PC version being the least damaging of all, retailing for a mere $19.99.

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