Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

This is the game we've been waiting for. The only quip is, the launcher that reaches out to the web, not a fan of questionable things advertising or not. Otherwise, its a great game. Also, for the saving issue. Win11 and Win10 interpret the saves as malicious, when they are not, as its apart of ransomware protection/folder protection, you'll need to manually whitelist the trm.exe process. Web helper is suspicious though. Otherwise, its alot of fun. I played on Realistic, as it made the game actually fun (just like starship troopers terran command), but the losses were brutal, and the strategy and foresight to play (if you just steamrolled and didn't continually restart) was rough. Also, falsely advertised as DRM free, but it enforces a external login system, and platform for multiplayer, which completely neuters the ability to play this game mutliplayer wise in a CLOSED LAN environment. Quite concerning that GOG allows games to advertise as truly DRM free when they package DRM components into the product.

This game is clearly a labor of love from the development team. They succeeded in giving us a RTS experience not only with great graphics/audio but also challenging gameplay. I agree with the other (current) reviewer that the micromanaging of resources can be a bit much however, the game still absolutely deserves a 5 out of 5 in my opinion. 😃 Have fun!

This is a Real time strategy/tactical game with resource management and not base building. You do not have unlimited units, and they have limited ammunition and fuel. So you need to manage that they get resupplied with that, and those resupplies are limited as well. On top of that you need to manage credits and supplies managed for traveling around the theater map. However, the fights are really nice, and perhaps in beginning painful and frustrating. And the enemy hits hard the harder difficulty. Some people complain about the difficulty on normal even, but that has been nerfed a bit and some weird mission pains as well. Sadly there are still a few moments, where you feel cheated on how they want you to continue and rethink your available troops. Understandable why they do it, and what they want to achieve, but they should have handled those a bit different. The technical issue's described by others, especially regarding saving, have been fixed. and wide screen is properly in there as well. All in all, a must have for those that love RTS/RTT. HOWEVER, if you have anger issue's it might be better to avoid, as there will be moments you will lose men or vehicles because something didn't go as you planned. Only real downside is that voices are English only, no German, French or Spanish. Regarding translations they are fine for other common EU languages, I did see there was a Dutch which is fun and good to see they for once get their translation. Strange enough no Italian or Portuguese, and also would have expected Japanese/Korean/Ukrainian. However note that there is no Polish unlike the GoG site says.

Its not World in Conflict, but it is better than Wargames and Steel Division. There are not to many units to prevent the player from managing their force on the campaign map or on the battlefield. The story is solid with good voice acting. Multiplayer is discord run which is a little frustrating, but it is fun and fast with multiple game modes.