Posted on: October 2, 2012
Socratatus
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A gen of a Tactical Squad Shooter. Heavily unappreciated even today.
This game is one of those quiet surprises you try on the off chance and end up wondering how it was never advertised better to be more popular. Nearly everything about the game is well put togther, programmed and executed. Like most reviewers have said here, this game`s engine would be prefect for a remake of Xcom and I wonder why it never was used for that. The game sets you in WW2, around 1943. You lead a group of 5 agents attempting to find out what the enemy are up and to stop them. You have access to basic WW2 equipment and can collect more. The weapons list is very big, though some of the names given them are strange ( a mod easily changes it to real world names). You start off first in Britain or Germany, yep, you can play german agents too, then work around to europe on your Campaigns. Missions are both story-driven and random adding longevity and life to the quests. You get to completely create your character from his uniform right to his facial detail which pretty impressive. A mod adds even more uniforms. It`s interesting that you can be whomever you want to be from female to actually black or white even if you decide to play the German side! it`s quite interesting being a black guy working for WW2 Germany! As you may have guessed, the more grim aspects of WW2 Germany are not here. Think of it as an alternative WW2 where fascism never actually happened. The real meat of this game is in the tactical battles. You use your different skilled people to the best of their abilities; Grenadiers, Snipers, scouts, soldiers, engineers. I tend to take one of each, but a sniper is essential as well as some good soldiers,which I often dress my character as. Also your character is real important cos if he dies it`s like you dying- game over. Everyone else can be rescued unless you leave them behind. You`ll find yourself taking on enemy soldiers or agents in countryside or houses or military establishments and even on civilian streets with people hiding from the violence. Use cover, back eachother up, creat kill zones to achieve your objectives. Weapons are quite realistic with bullet trajectories that ricochet and pentrate walls. Get heavier ordnance like grenades and rocket launchers and watch the fun as walls are blown apart and houses collapse. You don`t want to risk your men in checking out that last house in which you KNOW a German is hiding? Hit it with several bazookas or detonate dynamite on it and watch the entire building collapse. Even the AI will use this tactic as he can hear and try to predict your position and will shoot through walls to hopefully hit you. Talking of AI it is very good and better than many more modern games. It will shoot at you then duck behind walls to reload, gang up, investigate noises. they also work better if Officers are with them. Officers are also very accurate shooters. I had a view of an enemy soldier in a house who had not seen us, I shot at him from a window and missed then ducked down behind the window. I observed the AI looking around then moving towards the window and even going prone when he got close. Unfortunately for him I had my scout watching from another window whom blew him away. The AI will also change weapons if better is lying around. The graphics even today are clear, crisp and wholesome, with only a little bit of jaggy. Animations are really good. The crawling, creeping, climbing and sniper positioning all look really good and you feel for your delicate sniper woman as she crawls to a good hiding position in the undergrowth, ready to cover the men. AI characters all have a background and simple personality and you have a choice of about 20-30 people to pick. Only fall donw with the game is when it went Scifi with Panzerkleins. I think the Devs failed to understand that the game was so good just with the shooty and bang real-world stuff that it didn`t need goofy mechs in it. However, Mods are still available that remove this and add soldiers with powerful weapons instead. Sounds are pretty good, although speech is a bit tongue in cheek with dying people saying some pretty dumb stuff which I guess is meant to be funny...`Argh` would`ve been enough. Music is actually very immersive and it`s great that you get the soundtrack with GOG. Thankyou, Gog. By the way, on performance, when I first played this game it was a stutter fest when anything got blown up of fell apart because of all the real world physics, well now with our multi-coe PCs there`s none of that. things fall apart and explode in real time no stutter and it`s a dream to finally play the game as intended, even if its near 10 years later! This game is heavily unappreciated for its quality and what it does. It gives modern games a run for their money and there`s not even a horrible DRM like Steam to hold you back. What more could one want? Still a brilliant game today- get it!
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