Z: The Game

Fantastic!!! Argh!!! It's a cracker wee game with soo many memories. Struggled to make it to the snowy levels as a young chap. Played it right through once before- have to do so every few years but struggled recently to get my hands on a copy. Seems great to me. Is slow- but that's what the game was always like from memory? Otherwise, super good stuff.

This game is great. I played it for hours, days and maybe weeks back in the late 90's and till today, it is one of my Top 10 games to play. But - in the Remake there are several issues that need to be fixed: 1. Options? There are just some few for Sound/Music on/off. No Controls, nothing. 2. Handling: It is annoying as hell to scroll the Map while pushing the LEFT mouse button. Also: Selection with right click+pull. No scrollbars where you would expect them. 3. Interface: Due to its tablet heritage the cursor doesn't indicate actions over flags, vehicles etc. 4. AI: At medium difficulty my grunts just stood there beside the neutral sector flag and made no attempt to capture it. Also they let enemies pass to capture the sector behind even if I explicitly ordered them to attack . I hope those issues will be fixed soon. This game deserves more than a halfhearted tablet port.

The meat of the game is capturing sectors of a map, very much like you do in later RTS game Company of Heroes. This one is of course a sci-fi setting, and more hectic than CoH. Good: Solid tactics and strategy required. Fast paced. Great cutscenes that are actually funny. Great overall artistic and game design. Sound, music, all very good. Bad: One of the most Stressful games ever. Ever played a multiplayer RTS game for the first time and had this feeling in your stomach that you are fighting a losing battle and the only way to win is by playing at 150% of your skill? Well, with Z you get the same feeling, but in single player. It's unforgiving. It's ruthless. You can't relax for more than a few seconds if that. Conclusion. If you want punishment and stressful feeling in your RTS, it's a solid 4 or 5 stars out of 5. If you like RTS but want a more relaxed feeling, it's at best a 3/5 and it is better avoided. Objectively a great game.

I really love what the new release. The intial shortcomings have been fixed and the old feeling is back. Great work. There still is room for improvement but judging from the developer work so far I am sure we have not seen the last release of this long overdue remake. Visit the (once official) Commander Zod forum and share your thoughts and ideas with us: http : // zzone . lewe . com

I have never played Z but I played the campaign of the sequel to death and I really hope GOG resurrects that old gem.