Phantom Doctrine: What Really Happened?

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On September 1, 1983, the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, killing 269 people including U.S. Representative Larry McDonald. A combination of fear, posturing, and paranoia lead to the downing of KAL 007 and pushed the world closer to war... but what if there was an even more sinister motive behind what officially happened?

This question is what CreativeForge Games upcoming Phantom Doctrine explores in its conspiracy-laden Cold War setting.

In Phantom Doctrine, a shadowy organization is destabilizing the world, pushing it to the brink of chaos in an attempt to establish a global hegemony under their control. The only thing standing in their way is The Cabal, a secretive group of special agents collected from across the world …show more content…

Corkboards covered in photos and news clippings tenuously tied together with colored string making tenuous links between events that may or may not be caused by the conspiracy. Agents between The Cabal and the conspiracy are brainwashed, pumped with mind control drugs, and implanted with code-phrase activated triggers that switch enemies into allies and vice-versa. The entire game is meant to make people question everyone around them.

At first blush, Phantom Doctrine appears to owe a lot to XCOM with its two-stage gameplay. Part of the game takes place in The Cabal's hideout. It's here where tangled yarn links mysterious contacts with names such as "The Purple Man" to locations such as Berlin, Moscow, and Helsinki. This is where world-wide communications are monitored for signs of the conspiracy and agents are sent off to inspected the validity of those leads.

It's also here where The Cabal's MK Ultra program interrogates opposing agents, prying information from them by any means necessary before sending them back to their masters as double agents. At least, that is the plan. The opposition can use the same tactics against The Cabal and it's never known just how many moles might be actively working against

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