Today CDV has released a new single-player demo for their upcoming tactical RPG, Hammer & Sickle. The demo will introduce players to the game's combat and RPG elements, while challenging their skills at stealth and subversion. The demo is currently available at the following mirrors -

3D Gamers
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/hammersickle/downloads/

Worthplaying
http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=30261

Gamershell
http://www.gamershell.com/download_11720.shtml

GameSpot
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...d_6140641.html

FileFront
http://files.filefront.com/Hammer++S.../fileinfo.html

File Planet
http://www.fileplanet.com/158976/150...-&-Sickle-Demo

Hammer & Sickle is a tactical RPG set in the spring of 1949. In the game, the player will assume the role of a top Soviet spy on clandestine duty in the British-American controlled sector of Germany during the early years of the budding Cold War. In a world where no one is quite who they appear to be, the player is trapped in a hellish plot that could trigger a third world war, this time between the United States and Soviet Union and their respective nuclear arsenals. Gamers will have to navigate a web of intrigue and make decisions that could determine the fate of the world.

CDV Software Entertainment is dedicated to publishing and distributing top-notch war and strategy games worldwide. The publicly traded company, founded and headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, has its North American offices located in New Jersey and North Carolina, and collaborates with leading distribution partners across the globe. As publisher of critically acclaimed titles like Codename: Panzers, Divine Divinity, American Conquest, Combat Mission, Hammer & Sickle, War Front: Turning Point, Cossacks and the Blitzkrieg series, CDV is Europe's foremost publisher of PC strategy titles.

Nival Interactive, Inc. is an international video game developer with corporate offices in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and its main creative studio in Moscow, Russia. Since its inception in 1996, Nival Interactive Russia is the leading, and also the largest, game development studio in Russia with five development teams in Moscow and Ekaterinburg. Nival Interactive has earned critical acclaim worldwide from press and gamers alike for titles including The Rage of Mages, Etherlords, Night Watch, Hammer & Sickle and the Blitzkrieg and Silent Storm series.