Our new protagonist is William Mason, whose father is an admiral for the Usonian forces and gets pushed into a conflict on the Arabian peninsula – trying to overthrown the current rulers in order to gain more of a stake in the natural resources of the region. The new faction of Usonia, based on the USA, is front and center this time, and features in several story-driven cutscenes that help lay out the story. It features a new campaign with seven missions, all of which can be tackled in multiple ways and with several optional objectives that make things riskier and/or more rewarding. Operation Eagle is a standalone expansion for the game, but can also be purchased as a DLC addon if you already own the base game. Iron Harvest didn’t just give us a quality title in the genre when it launched, but as we pointed out in our review it already delivered on an exciting new and original setting with its alternate history take on the world. These days, Real Time Strategy titles in the classic sense are a bit of a rare breed, especially in the AAA environment.
Iron Harvest: Operation Eagle marks a return to KING Art’s excellent dieselpunk-fueled RTS, and we relished the chance of going back to it.