First is the research phase, where IPCs (a representation of industrial power) can be gambled in an attempt to develop advanced technology, such as jet engines or rockets. Each power's turn of the game is broken into several phases. The game is turn-based, with the USSR turn first, and the USA turn last. Victory conditions are set at the start of the game: complete world domination, the capture of enemy capitals, or reaching a set level of economic power by the Axis. Players take control of one of five world powers at the start of 1942 in WW2, grouped into the opposing factions of the Allies (US, UK, and USSR) and the Axis (Germany and Japan). Axis and Allies Download Free Full Game is a 1998 turn-based strategy video game closely based on the Axis and Allies: Classic board game.