S2: Silent Storm Gold Edition

what an awesome game this was and still is. you will rerun it over and over again. this is a pearl for any turn by turn fans. you can customize the gear, skill progreesion, etc etc.. loot the enemies for that extra exotic flavour, simply.. amazing.

I played this game many many years ago. It was fun then. It is still fun today. I especially love the destructable environment. Blowing holes in doors and walls with an heavy machine gun is awesome in this game.

I never played the original game (well, will defenitely do now after the buy, hehe), so I'm familiar only with Sentinels (and a bit with Hammer&Sickle, but that's another story and it isn't included in this bundle anyway). I bought myself a Russian license years back when I was probably 15-16 y/o, and believe me - not so much games ever gave me such an enjoyment and consumed my day and sleeping hours so effectively:) The vast choice of weapons, a very diverse international army at your command (I believe there are more characters in S3 than the mercenaries were able in JA2), almost complete freedom in choice of a way to complete missions, not-so-easy (and not so various, unfortunately) but rewarding random encounters, great tactical options... I think there are simply no more games like this, blame me but I enjoyed Silent Storm even more than JA or X-COM! Though the mentioned here for a number of times "plot twist" and inevitable face-off with panzerkleins was pretty rough for me back those days and spoiled the final part of the game for me. May be I will train this "no-pk" mod this time... or may be not:) This is too brilliant game about heroes of unseen war in alternative history setting, and not to be passed by just because of some annoying sci-fi elements

I've played JA2 through with knife, (no UFOs) for fun. Then I did find this game and tried to something alike martial arts, - well -that is reason why I'll have to get this game again! I have some unfinished business... and more time after ten years.

I really loved Silent Storm. I think that when it came out about 10y ago it was overlooked and it's a real shame, because it's great and games like this are very rare nowadays. I discovered it not long ago myself. SS is a squad based strategy game where you fight with a turn based system; it includes RPG elements (like JA or FO:T) as in each mission your men acquire experience which enables you to customize their abilities and makes them more powerful. It has a whole lot of interesting features way ahead of their time, like destructible environment and material density (so you can shoot through walls or floors). Plus, graphics, music and sounds are great. It blinks the eye to the casual gamer who has never tried tb strategy, because it's accessible and addictive even to those who aren't too familiar with it (as I, sort of, was). You'll find yourself longing to play “that other turn, then stop” and grow a kind of attachment to the squad you assembled. Each member is wonderfully characterised and with funny audio lines, you'll feel sorry if they die or get hurt! A different story goes for Sentinels. It's a lot harder than SS, which was more “sandboxish”: you need (lots of) money to do everything, even recruiting members and buying ammo so that's why you get killed very easily. I haven't played it too much because I got frustrated after a while but I think I'll give it another shot in the future. So, I can really recommend this game: you won't regret it!