So far I've played through the game as KGB. This alone is many hours of gameplay. I love the graphics and music, they're solid. There's a good mumber of different maps, but for general missions some maps are used more than once. I'm ok with that, it's not too excessive. A bit more loction diversity would be good though, to make different parts of the world feel distinctive. The agent customisation is interesting and allows for creating agents that serve specific tasks, for example I've made snipers, diguise agents, etc. by combining various skills, equipment and weapons. I like the strategy and planning. I wish that the tactical recon would give more information before planning the team, like a dossier with floorplans and stuff. Then I could design a team that's focused on the map. It's a long game which takes many hours, and it a lot of the interesting technology and weapons don't show up until much later in the game. Some of them I think too late as many I never ended up using. I'll try to explore them more if I play again. A new mission does unlock after playing through to the end, so I'd like to do that one day. Some reviews are saying that the game discourages combat, but even with care I find it can break out unexpectedly at any moment. You also don't have to be stealthy, you can create attack teams with heavy armoured and high powered weapons - but you'll have to get in, do the task and get out fast this way It's the kind of game where it's easy to fall in to just grinding it out. You can acheive all the goals without being tidy or efficient. To keep if fun and interesting you need to focus on the strategy and planning. The game could do better at envouraging this. For example limiting the number of turns for a mission, or a reward for being fast. Anyway, I enjoyed it and expect I'll play again in the future
This was one of the first computer games I played on a PC, and I replayed it again this year. I enjoyed it as much as the first time. LBA 1 and 2 are true classics, which may have aged, but haven't lost any of their fun.
