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So It Turns out that RUSE is going to be a bit interesting. It's a zoom-in-and-out strategy offering which scales from actual size, down-to-earth perspectives, up through the clouds, before revealing that the battle is taking place on a tabletop map, replete with military types on the phone in the background. It's like Supreme Commander and World in Conflict crossed with the model town from Beetlejuice.

RUSE. last showed itself in Cologne, way back in 2009, where it boastfully introduced the concept of deception to the RTS genre. Deception, claim the French developer Eugen Systems, hasn't been properly realised yet and so R.U.S.E. introduces the titular a collection of jukes, fakes, dummies and rumours intended to confound and confuse your opponent. Back then, Ubisoft would usher you out of their booth before you could properly run your face down the list of ruses, but now, in this decade of new opportunities, we can do whatever the hell we like with RUSE, perusing the salvo of lies and deceit as we please.

They're not terrifically interesting on paper, truth be told. Decryption reveals your opponent's orders as he makes them, so that his movements are flagged by large, colourful arrows. Spy identifies units, turning an unidentified unit's tiddlywink into an actual, visible object, thereby allowing you to attack it. Fanaticism removes your units' ability to retreat, making it possible to draw out conflicts long enough to pursue other targets. And Decoy Army produces five dummy units, which appear to your opponent to be as real as everything else until he attacks them and they disappear in mocking wisps. These aren't sexy, game-ending tricks, rather they're appropriately subtle tools - and those are just four of the 10 we've seen.

Games begin with you in control of an HQ, and dotted about the map are supply dumps. Building depots on these will generate revenue and force you to extend your fronts, from here you'll need to build defensive structures - machine gun nests and fixed anti-air cannons -while closer to your base you'll be setting up barracks and tank factories to feed your frontline with fresh units.

R.U.S.E. benefits from brevity in its roster of units, there are only a handful to choose from, and as such they fall neatly into a rock-paper-scissors arrangement. It is, in the very best sense, simple.

There are a few problems that might cause less-able players to slouch right into a petulant furrow of despair though. Units, like or unlike, are lumped together depending on how much you've zoomed in or out. At a distance, entire armies can be represented by neatly stacked tiddlywinks, with individual units only becoming visible once you've craned your virtual neck for a closer look. Scouting is fussy too, so while specific jeeps and aerial units can be used to reveal enemy units, often the very units being fired upon won't be able to identify what sort of tank is pounding them into oblivion. There's no "Just have a bloody look, will you?" order to speak of. These are stumbling blocks, certainly, but R.U.S.E's potential is being displayed in force. The short tight one-on-one games speak of a title stripped of the haughtiness of the genre incumbents, a complex but not complicated RTS which seemingly benefits from its crossplatform development.

Strategy Simplified

R.U.S.E. is literally a game you can play with one hand tied behind your back, and while that could potentially feel shallow to nimble-fingered strategy fanatics, it'll more likely be welcomed with open arms by armchair tacticians who tremble at the sight of a nested menu. Particularly those tacticians without the use of their left hands.