A game is scripted when it forces you to make the same strategic choices the historical leaders made. It's opposite is sandbox, where you are given a starting point and then can do whatever you like. These are not fixed poles and most games fit somewhere on a scale between them. That is, some are more scripted and some are more sandboxy. Scripted games tend to be strategic level or very large operational level.
Some games that are more to the scripted and of the scale:
- Advanced Third Reich
- Shifting Sands
