The Silent Storm series brings you two complete games that both provide with you a wealth of turn-based combat against the backdrop of World War II and beyond. It’s the year 1943 and you must lead a group of operatives as they assault against the enemy, wreak havoc on their operations, and find out...
The Silent Storm series brings you two complete games that both provide with you a wealth of turn-based combat against the backdrop of World War II and beyond. It’s the year 1943 and you must lead a group of operatives as they assault against the enemy, wreak havoc on their operations, and find out what new power threatens both sides. After the dust settles from the war’s end, you must find and destroy the remnants of the organization known as “Thor’s Hammer.”
Silent Storm Gold features a fully destructible 3D world with ragdoll physics and non-linear gameplay. Play the game your way: engage in stealth and quietly take out your enemies or take the more direct route with a rocket launcher. Choose from over 40 operatives in each game, for a total of 80 unique personalities and skills, and arm them with over 75 different authentic and painstakingly-researched weapons. As far as squad command turn-based strategy games go, this one will surprise you with its great complexity and fantastic alternate reality setting.
This bundle includes S2: Silent Storm and S3: Silent Storm - Sentinels add-on.
Destructible environment opens up tactical options, whether it’s flushing an enemy out of a building via rocket launcher or knocking holes in a wall to make a field-expedient shortcut.
Multiple paths to complete the mission. Use brute force or stealth tactics across 3 different difficulty levels.
Unprecedented realism featuring true 3D, a fully destructible environment, and real projectile physics that take into consideration trajectory, speed, and piercing performance.
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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Thank you so much GOG. This is one of my favourite games of all time, a strategic and detailed beautiful 3D game with realistic damage and a destructible environment.
There are weapons and items that can be scavenged from the environment to aid you as resources are limited. Each action must be thought through carefully, both in the real time and turn-based action mode.
I can't recommend this highly enough and if my description even slightly interests you then please try it for yourself.
I've put about a billion hours into this on Steam, and, before that, on CD, and despite having some serious flaws, I'd say the actual combat is some of the best you'll find in a turn based tactical anywhere - the sheer destructability of the environment is, as far as I'm aware, completely unmatched in any other TBT out there.
"Unmatched" is probably a good word to describe these games. While other TBT games do a lot of things better, nothing comes close to doing some of the stuff SS does as well as it does.
The store page sums up the game well enough, so here's a quick list of the exceptionally good and the annoyingly bad.
Good:
-The physics are great. No other TBT does them this well. Bullets are stopped by or pass through cover logically, hits are calculated by simulated trajectory (so you can totally kill people with ricochets, etc.)
-The game has a hidden hotseat multiplayer function that is a ton of fun.
-You actually can engage in a ton of different approaches. Lets say you need to kill some snipey dude. You can suppress him and flank, counter snipe, riddle the entire room with machinegun fire and hope to hit him, or collapse roof/floor/entire building.
Cons:
-The actual coding isn't always great. While the actual enemy AI is pretty on par for the era the games came out, you'll find you and your opponents occasionally glitch and empty a mag into the floor while trying to shoot someone.
- Similarly, LOS can be wonky. You will empty a mag into a little bump in the dirt that only blocks your muzzle.
-There is a level in one of the games (can't remember which) that is essentially broken and is nearly impossible to beat without cheats.
-The level up system doesn't work correctly. It's not vital.
-It's a little too easy to win many fights by riddling things with machinegun fire, which is hard to resist on your Nth playthrough when you have a good idea where enemies spawn and know you'll catch a bullet if you actually open the door instead of shooting it.
While X-COM and Jagged Alliance 2 might be THE golden boys of tactical squad simulators, Silent Storm's ability to mow down walls with machine guns, line up triple kills with a high caliber sniper rifle on a group of foolishly clustered soldiers and watch buildings collapse as their supporting structure is obliterated by a booby trap still doesn't cease to amaze me. More importantly the core gameplay is extremely solid, far from being just a glorified physics simulator.
The dreaded Panzerkleins and other sci-fi elements weren't implemented that well but fortunately they only affect the last 5% or so of the original game. In the sequel they appear earlier but are far more balanced.
Silent Storm is the best...I'm not just saying that
There are only two games that I call my favorites of all time. Games that I come back to over an over, playing avidly, despite the advancement of years. The two games are Silent Storm and Civ IV:BTS. I still play Civ IV almost daily and I'm heavily involved in that community.
This issue with Silent Storm is that after only a couple of years, Nival neglected the game. The game was never updated or fixed to accept the newer OS's and video cards, basically becoming unplayable. I did find a hex editor fix for S2 but nothing for Sentinels, which is IMO the best and most intense expansion to any game ever.
GOG has finally remedied this by fixing Silent Storm and adding it to the catalog. I actually put in a request for this game here a year or so ago. Not sure if that is why it is here, but I sure am glad.
Anyway, this is a review so I will say a few things to enlighten newcomers. There are already a lot of great reviews here going into the details about the game
So what I will say is that this is one of the best Turn Based
Strategy games of all time. However, it was poorly marketed at the time it came out (2003/2004), so despite great reviews it never really sold well in the US, despite having a strong cult following overseas.
SS is basically the evolution of XCOM and Jagged Alliance games. The big deal here is an advanced 3D graphic engine that was revolutionary for its time. Let me assure you it holds up quite well today. In fact, even with all the shiny, glossy and shallow games you see released all the time nowadays, I think SS will always be a playable game for eternity. The destructible environments here are more fun that you can imagine and offer to unique strategic/tactical possibilities.
In short, SS is a tactical squad-based TBS set in WWII. It starts out very conventional as your group of six soldiers of different classes (Soldier, Scout, Sniper, Medic, Engineer and Grenadier) perform covert missions in the heat of WWII, basically outside the scope of the traditional battles. You can mix and match the classes in the group as you wish. Gradually, the game takes on somewhat of a Sci-fi element as you realize you are battling a secret organization inside the Third Reich that are developing some unique and powerful weaponry. You can play as Allies or Axis solders with diverging/converging story lines.
Sentinels, the expansion, is just one of the most intense expansions/games I've played. It is truly exceptional and immensely challenging. The game adds some new features and takes on even more of RPG elements as you post WWII soldiers now take on a terrorist threat shortly after the war. There are some divergent paths here as you an select different missions that open up new missions. Just let me say now that there are some missions in Sentinels that will blow your mind. Some of which I spend 24 or more hours playing glued to the screen. Pure awesomeness. Very challenging expansion - definitely play the original first to get the combat and tactics down first.
Buy Silent Storm Gold! Play Silent Storm Gold! There is nothing to think about. Truly one of the great hidden gems in the world of gaming!
Yeah, you heard me right, Panzerklein, Armour Pants! Klein means pants right? Yes, there is a lot of controversy of the PKs but I LOVE THEM! If you have not played this and are feeling wary of purchase, check out one of the many lets plays to see the PERSONALITY in each and everyone of the characters!
It is the best turn based strategy game I have ever played, bar none. Its the engine that does it. If X-Com and Jagged Alliance had the same engine, this would be left in the dust.
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