I still think you could do the Cold War feel with the creation of an Alternate Timeline that continues the Cold War into the 21st Century... The biggest way to have done that is have the USSR and it's satellite states doing what the Chinese Communists have done with their 'State Controlled Capitalism' (ie 'national' socialism)...
Having someone replace Gorby (ie Danilov) who has the appearence of a hardliner, but in reality is the reformer.. who turns Eastern Europe into a rapidly growing economic powerhouse. The USSR had more resources than the USA has, and SHOULD HAVE been able to overcome us... but it was the mismanagement of those resources that saw their downfall.
The PRC saw this, and has been doing everything they can to NOT repeat those mistakes. And as we are seeing now, they are becoming a major economic & political powerhouse.
Just think of what the Cold War could have turned into if the USSR did that instead. They honestly believed that SDI was a real project and not just something that the Reagan Administration wanted to use as a GOAL to inspire the US... just like JFK did with his famous "put a man on the moon" speech.
It was this that caused Gorby to blink... But what IF someone like Danilov came to power, and saw it for what it was. Something to aspire too, and used that to do a major overhaul of the Soviet Bloc... and overhaul like what the PRC has done.
Thus allowing the Cold War to continue on... and then we have the cold war slowly going HOT in the year 2000 with the growth of Islamic fundamentalism (ie the west having originally had used it against the Soviets in Afghanistan and the Central Asian Republics) into a threat than anyone could have ever thought possible (but we in our world know to be true).
And these Islamic fundamentalists are the ones who triggered the Cold War going hot... Be it with terrorist attacks like 11 September 2001, or something as benign as triggering a border dispute between the PRC and USSR.
Thus you can keep the "Twilight: 2000" title for the game, and use the thoughts of importing OUR world into their world... having parallel development of technology (or even an acceleration of technology showing up sooner) allowing for a wide deal of things as well.
Having a slow build-up for the HOT War... allows for the war to become more pronounced and a truly GLOBAL war. And has the bonus of having the major powers being played by the Terrorists.
Something that many of the more popular techno-thriller novels of today are using, and might be a way that the game could use to get new blood into it!
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