Description:Into the Labyrinth...2001: The
American Century has closed with a single
Cold-War superpower standing, and a pause in conflict that some dubbed the
The End of History. It wasn't. In the Middle
East and South Asia, an Islamic revival was underway, while resentment spread
due in part to US support for the regions' anti-Soviet tyrannies. Thus erupted a
new struggle against the West. Wealthy Saudi fanatic Usama bin Ladin declared
holy war against America in 1996 and
struck with spectacular terrorist attacks on US targets in East Africa in 1998
and Arabia in 2000.
Bin Ladin's al-Qaeda organization recruited and trained under the
protection of an Afghan fundamentalism born of the anti-Soviet Bear Trap of the 1980s. By 2001, al-Qaeda had
set in motion even more devastating strikes - this time within the US Homeland -
in hopes of igniting a global Muslim uprising. Uprising or not, the West's
response to those September 11th attacks would reshape international affairs
from London to Jakarta, and from Moscow to Dar es Salaam.
Labyrinth takes 1 or 2 players
inside the Islamist jihad and the global
war on terror. With broad scope, ease
of play, and a never-ending variety of card combinations similar to GMT Games'
Twilight Struggle, Labyrinth portrays both the effort to counter
extremist terrorism and the wider ideological struggle - guerilla warfare,
regime change, democratization, and more. From the designer of the award winning
Wilderness War, Labyrinth combines an emphasis on card-driven
game play with multifaceted simulation.
In the 2-player game, one player takes the role of jihadists seeking to
exploit world events and Islamic donations to spread fundamentalism. The other
as the United States must neutralize terrorist cells while encouraging Muslim
reform to cut off extremism at its roots.
Labyrinth features asymmetrical game
play and a maze of political, religious, military, and economic events. In the
parallel wars of bombs and ideas, international coordination is key - but
terrorist opportunities disrupt Western unity are many. The Towers have fallen,
but the global struggle has just begun. Let's
roll!
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