Door Kickers

I had seen this game listed on Good Old Games for a little while before I purchased it. It looked neat and had good reviews, but I wondered how truly in depth it could be tactically and had otherwise heard nothing about it prior to release on GOG. Finally, I took a chance and purchased it. I was not disappointed. The missions themselves take place on a 2D top down screen resembling a building blueprint. You place paths and waypoints for your squad to follow. I usually like to try to plan everything before I start the mission and then sit back and watch my squad execute my plan, however you can control them in real time and have the option to pause the game if your plans began to unravel. This is almost next to impossible on later missions, however, as the locations get larger with more rooms and hostiles with more things that can go wrong. There are multiple individual missions in addition to the campaigns. These allow you to get familiar with the basic mechanics and scenarios in the game. They also give your squad experience, allow you to unlock various upgrades (armor, weapons, tools, etc), and doctrines before you start the campaign. Doing this allows you to progress through the campaign a lot easier as you will start with better gear (for me, armor was an important upgrade). The scenarios included defusing bombs, rescuing hostages, and simply clearing out buildings. These take place in multiple locations such as harbors, apartments, airplanes, and ships just to name a few. Next is replayability. There is a random mission generator and an editor. This helps to ensure a lot of content and should keep this game entertaining and varied for a very long time to come. The game's visual style is fantastic, unique, and, at least in my opinion, will likely age very well, still looking good years from now. The developers really did a great balance between the most important game play and graphics. In short, this is an excellent game and well worth the price.

The entire game is viewed from above, with the maps stailised to look almost like blueprints and maps the operators would use to plan their attack, but you get to do the planing, drawing the path, viewing direction and actions of each charecter. This can be done in real time, in the more challenging "1 perfect plan" or a combination of both. While the basics are simple, the game offers excellent depth in both mechanics and game design: do you bring a handgun or hard-to-maneuver-indoors shotgun? Do you send a guy from the back, or concentrate fire up front? Blast the door and risk injuring the hostage, or take your time braking in, risking not making it on time to save him? Do you risk skiping checking the closet to save critical time, or do you go for it to avoid getting supprised from the back? Viewing the real-time replay of the misson make it look like just afew seconds, but a challenging mission can 30 and more minutes of planing and experimintation. Bottom line: highly recomanded for lovers of the various tactical geners.

An epic tactical shooter. Lots of levels, lots of gear, lots of strategy. Extremely fun and addictive. A must buy.

The game is great. The gameplay depth is there. You can approach each mission differently and there's loads of mechanics. The immersion is there (with one little caveat). You can customise your characters the weapon descriptions are accurate. The game feels authentic. The variety is there. In missions and in equipment/classes. Plenty different experiences. And the challenge definitely is there. Trying to 3 star some single missions seems impossible until you do it which brings ton of satisfaction. My 2 caveats are: - some balancing issues, mainly that the shield class is severely underpowered and lacks any actual benefits. - female characters still use male voice cues

As a big fan of the jagged alliance, xcom series and the older battle bugs I actually quite like this. This reminds me an awful lot of Frozen Synapse but it feels streamlined and looks better. You will still require a lot of patience and forethought but the ability to work in 'real time' Admitedly I've only played the single missions so far and am a bit annoyed at how poorly I am doing. There is a slightly annoying cannot delete orders bug I've noticed as well. A bit more variety in the music and sound would bit encouraging as well. The main thing I really want is a more jagged alliance style feel... for example more personailty in the soilders, perma death, speech, back story, story etc. If I find these things in the misions/ story sorry. Recommended.