by catmando
spartax wrote:
Honestly, I don't understand how you could come to the conclusion that the game portrays only US history.
To paraphrase the game's creators, Certain assumptions are made, whether valid or not. One is key to the game mechanics: the Domino Theory. You may only place - Events aside - influence next to countries where you already have presence.
Another is that the sprawling, complex, interrelated events of the world in that time, were compressed into terms relative to Us and Them. The game encompasses world-wide events; but it is through a lens specifically American. This is the American history of the Cold War.
Since Americans used the Red Peril over and over again for their own purposes, this IS entirely historic of the game.