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| platforms = [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]], [[Sega Saturn|Saturn]]
| released = '''PlayStation'''{{vgrelease|NA|October 29, 1996<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1999-03-02 |title=Game Informer News |magazine=[[Game Informer]] |url=http://www.gameinformer.com/news/oct96/103096b.html |access-date=2023-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990302073022/http://www.gameinformer.com/news/oct96/103096b.html |archive-date=1999-03-02 }}</ref>|EU|November 1996}}'''Saturn'''{{vgrelease|NA|February 17, 1997<ref>{{Cite web |title=Electronic Arts - News Room, Electronic Arts Ships Soviet Strike for the Sega Saturn |url=http://www.ea.com/companyinfo/press/sovsatrn.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970605143344fw_/http://www.ea.com/companyinfo/press/sovsatrn.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1997-06-05 |access-date=2023-04-15 }}</ref>|EU|February 21, 1997<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Lomas|first1=Ed|url=https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3ACVG_UK_184.pdf&page=53|title=Checkpoint - The month's events and software releases at a glance. Feb-March|magazine=[[Computer and Video Games]]|issue=184|publisher=[[Future plc|Future Publishing]]|date=March 1997|pages=53}}</ref>}}
| genre = [[Shooter game|Shooter]]
| modes = [[Single player]]
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'''''Soviet Strike''''' is a helicopter-based [[shooter game]] developed and published by [[Electronic Arts]] for the [[PlayStation]] in 1996 and the [[Sega Saturn]] in 1997. The game is a sequel to the [[Strike (video game series)|''Strike'' games]] which began on the [[Sega Genesis]] with ''[[Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf]]''. ''Soviet Strike'' is the series' first installment for a [[History of video game consoles (fifth generation)|32-bit console]] and was first conceived as ''32-bit Strike''. Early on, it was intended for the [[3DO Interactive Multiplayer|3DO
''Soviet Strike'' is set after the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|disintegration of the Soviet Union]], and takes place in a fictionalised Russia, Eastern Europe and around the [[Caspian Sea]]. The player pilots an [[Boeing AH-64 Apache|Apache]] helicopter and battles with the forces of Shadowman, a renegade ex-communist figure. Like its predecessors, the game features shooting action mixed with strategic management of fuel and ammunition, but has more authentic [[3D computer graphics|3D graphics]], as well as a modified overhead - as opposed to [[Isometric video game graphics|isometric]] - perspective. The game also features a more realistic enemy [[Artificial intelligence (video games)|artificial intelligence]] and environment. Critics received the game positively, praising the graphics and [[full motion video]], while commentary on the gameplay and difficulty was more mixed.
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STRIKE's victory in the Black Sea leads them to the Caucasus, where Sadissa Savak, leader of the fictional state of Irek, begins aggressive overtures against local fighters. In the mission (which is supposedly north of the main battle area where Desert Strike took place), the player and Amad join forces with a militia run by Amad's relatives in stopping Ireki troops from capturing an abandoned Soviet chemical weapons plant. With STRIKE killing Savak (and passed off as the victim of a car crash), the group goes to a heavily irradiated Transylvania to rescue Nick once more, this time from Dr Grymyenko Ukrainian, who wields an arsenal of ballistic missiles. The player is also tasked to kill the Shadowman's lead armor commander, Vila, who operates a special red-turreted T-80, and aid in the destruction of an abandoned nuclear reactor the Shadowman is planning to use.
The final mission takes place in Moscow, with the Shadowman
==Development==
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[[Category:Single-player video games]]
[[Category:Video game sequels]]
[[Category:Video games about nuclear war and weapons]]
[[Category:Video games developed in the United States]]
[[Category:Video games set in Asia]]
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