S2: Silent Storm Gold Edition

Epic Game but no Multiplayer :(

This game is a joke. Important objectives are not explained, neither is where the exit zones are. I spent half and hour searching for how to finish the first mission, and had to pick up a specific corpse (not labelled, no indication this was needed) and move to a specific area (again, not labelled as the LZ). Expect to need a walkthrough to find out what you need to do. Pathetic.

NOT RECOMMENDED. Beyond the badly implemented, laggy, buggy 3D, destroyable environment, this game is trial-and-error, loading-a-save-as-a-core-progression-element kind of trash. E.g. you need to save before AN ENGINEER TRIES DISABLING A TRAP WITH SPECIAL EQUIPMENT. That is not how it works. That is what you get for devs trying to stretch out a full content out of the same repeated success percentage dice rolls. For the same reason, SMGs and many other weapons are for masochists as their hit percentage drops to single digits a couple feet beyond the touching distance. Even the bread-and-butter mechanics of the game are awful. It always comes down to cheesing the extremely stupid AI and out-ranging, in case you don't have to save-scum the out-of-nowhere enemy to miss a full-auto burst at your dude at the point-blank range. Panzerkleins... Sure, let's screw up also the hitting percentage. How about hitting perfectly and dealing 0 damage. The whole point of those mech-suit contraptions is to introduce artificial complication and to force you to waste time searching for beam weapons that are practically the only thing that do significant damage to those things. There is no story (you'll find beam guns and PKs - that's all you'll get) and the mission design ranges from filler to garbage. Enjoy wasting half a building just because there is a hole in the floor in front a vital doorway, trying to shoot another way in. Guess what: explosives break the floor and even when shooting straight at he wall, you dude misses the target so badly it hits the floor instead. THIS IS A RECURRING PROBLEM WITH THE MAPS WITH MULTI-FLOORED BUILDINGS. Also, there are timed objectives that do not really work. Mission "Unknown Complex" also adds timed objectives and practically requires very video-gamy glitching to be properly completed. Demonstrating the lazy design, there is a time limit with the mission, leading to auto-defeat. It also has crapton of objectives. F this game and its devs.

I bought this after reading the reviews on here. I was totaly bored after 2 hours. Back to xcom for me. Xcom and this have only one thing in common, that's turn based fighting. I hate to mention Xcom in this review but so many people have stated it's like xcom but set in a world war 2 setting. It's not!

Still one of the best RTS games around. Completely underrated.