Released in 2001 and developed by Rage Software, Hostile Waters has been called "one of the best games you've never played". This episode examines this unusual hybrid of real-time strategy and action, which sees the player trying to defend a futuristic utopia from the tyrants of the "Old Guard" - a mission which creates the need to re-learn war.

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