Imperial Machines

Imperial Machines is a 2017 alternate history first-person shooter published by Trinity Studios and released on 21 May for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, followed by later ports to Mac, Linux, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna (and hence also the Fire TV) and next-gen PlayStation and Xbox devices. The development of the game was handled by the Lithuanian office of Magmacore Development, an internal studio of Trinity.
The game takes place in an alternate 1996, 77 years after the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria won World War I. Following the inexorable collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires (The former of which has its place taken by just Hungary), Germany and Bulgaria along with their allies dominate most of the Earth through client states, diplomacy, military aggression, foreign intervention, and economic, military and scientific reliance. The player assumes the role of young Frenchman Pierre Courtemanche and the Romanian girl Viorica Damaschin, two members of a Resistance group who must clear their name and save the world after German ultranationalists, who are plotting to overthrow the German government and nuke all of Germany's "unreliable" allies (in order to render Germany as the sole world power), frames the Resistance for several acts of terrorism.
== Story ==
=== Backstory ===
In 1917, Arthur Zimmerman, a civil servant in the diplomatic office of the German Empire, submits a telegram to Mexico, proposing a military alliance between the two of them, and potentially Japan, to make war on the United States in anticipation of its entry in World War I. The Mexicans and Japanese both accept, and a plan to attack the US begins development. Using German support, the Mexicans launch a counter-offensive into the southern United States, and an Imperial Japanese army begins attacking America's West Coast. This holds the Americans off as Germany launches one, final push westwards into Europe and eastwards into Russia. 
As Russia collapses under the revolution, Germany finally fights around the Western Front and marches on Paris. Italy switches sides once more after being promised amnesty and support by Germany, and it attacks southern France. Together with several further operations, the Central Powers win the war once all Allies sue for peace by 1919. The Central Powers greatly increase their influence around the globe through client states, diplomacy, military aggression and foreign intervention; furthermore, most of the world now depends on Germany for their technology and science. Germany and the US fall into a Cold War; this eventually leads to a war lost by the Americans, who have their country partitioned and demilitarized. Despite this, the victories are unable to stop the countdown timer that the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires were on, and they both collapse. In the ensuing Balkan War, Austria joins Germany and Hungary establishes protectorates over Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia, Czechia, Montenegro and what remains of Serbia.
=== Setting ===
By the year 1996, the Earth has become largely futuristic, to the point of cyberpunk. The Central Powers continue to dominate the Earth and use military pressure to subjugate opposing nations into coercion. Their rule, however, is contested by the Emancipation Front. Colloquially called the Resistance, this organization seeks to liberate the occupied and puppeted territories following the Akenhout Massacre, wherein a whole city was burnt down by the Germans and had its entire population executed as punishment for disobedience. A third faction distinct from the Central authorities and Resistance exists: The Ensemble for the Advancement of the Fatherland (EAF), an ultranationalistic and chauvinist terroristic organization that seeks to violently establish Germany as the master and great leader of the entire human race and subjugate all other ethnicities to make way for the "German master race". This faction is opposed by the German government; its leader, Friedrich Balkenhol, thusly resorts to plotting to overthrow the German government and "free the mighty German people from an incompetent government, so that they shall finally and rightfully claim what is theirs — totality itself".
=== Synopsis ===
In early 1995, college student Pierre Courtemanche returns from university in Besançon and pays a visit to his family, having been out of touch for a few months. His family secretly opposes the German regime and provides intelligence to the Emancipation Front. Hours after his arrival, the German secret police, which is qualified to operate across nearly all of the world, busts into the family residence and shoots his entire family to death, justifying this as "defending the German nation". Courtemanche narrowly avoids being executed for guilt by association and flees to the French countryside. After a lengthy period of mourning, he eventually decides to retaliate by joining the Emancipation Front and sabotaging the Germans in any way possible. After he wraps up his training, Courtemanche embarks on a variety of sabotage missions, but is kept out of the "main deal" as he is still deemed a rookie.
In the summer of 1996, the EAF begins to commit various acts of brutal violence across Europe, including the decollation of a Dutch diplomat who was friendly to the Germans, the kidnapping of a German noble family, a shooting in Budapest and a suicide bombing on a market square in Dortmund. The EAF releases a faked video wherein the Emancipation Front allegedly claims responsibility for the attacks and swears that it will "obliterate" Germany in any way possible, no matter the cost. The general public and the Central Powers governments promptly turn against the Front. An elite division of the German Secret Service locates and invades the Front's headquarters in Lausanne (The Swiss government under pressure to permit this) and arrests the majority of the Front's leadership. Only a minority of the members manage to escape. Courtemanche is nearly apprehended, but saved at the last second by Viorica Damaschin — a female member roughly his age from Romania — who shoots the soldiers around him and takes Courtemanche with her. 
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== Gameplay ==