>>7073430It's basically a Cold War game. One player plays the US, the other the USSR. You fight to get control of countries, while trying not to start a thermonuclear war. You can do assassinations, coups d'etat, and you have lots of real-life-inspired events happening.
But games take ages to complete: about 2 to 3 hours for a tabletop version, and about an hour if you're playing the videogame versions.