Sid Meier's Covert Action

unique game still have fun 30 years later

I played this game so much as a kid. There are already plenty of reviews covering it already, so I'll just join the choir chanting for a remake.

This classic game is as fun as ever. It's a refreshing change from the action-oriented/FPS-style games that now dominate the spy game genre. The weaknesses of the game are the repetitive nature of the crimes (there are only so many plots) and the sluggishness of the game's response in DOSBOX. Overall, it's an enjoyable diversion.

I can't belive this game's reputation is as poor as it is!! Loads of people talking about a game they've never played. There is no "Covert Action problem," it's problems are no big mystery, it's a minigame game where the minigames all kinda suck. But the metagame AROUND the minigames is **INCREDIBLE**! The best mystery game I've ever played, possibly ever made. Brilliant design, just begging for somebody to revisit it. Can't recommend it to DOS game fans enough.

I picked this game up back in the late 90s on 3.25" floppy's and I still have the game to this day. It sits proudly on my desk at home. I discovered that it was on Steam and snatched it up in a heartbeat and had a great time playing through a few missions again. The biggest issue is that you really need a 10-key pad to do the combat missions. This wasn't an issue in 1990 when just about every computer had them, but these days? Good luck! Others have spoken to how good a game this is and I won't bore you with regaling how it cured cancer for me or the like, but I will say that for a game that was made when it was, it had *so* many avenues of play. I always avoided tailing people in cars as that was the least fully baked concept in the batch, but it was still an option. Many, many options to completing a case. That's what I loved about the game and still do. Your mileage may vary as the game's graphics are...rad, dude! Yeah, 16 colors is quite comical these days. But, don't toss the baby with the bathwater, as the saying goes. If you like spy thrillers, like I do, then you owe it to yourself to snatch this game and give it a whirl.