Got it on sale for less than a dollar. I'd have brought it at the normal price, just because of the fond memories. It's a solid squad tactical shooter, a little stiff but solid. Hard to recommend casually, but I had a good time on the PS2 playing with my younger brother, both of us taking control of 2 of the 4 man squad. I'd take the heavy gunner and the medic, he'd take the rifleman with the grenade launcher and the sniper. The game is a military shooter with a tactical shooter/sim glaze lopped on top. Proper planning between roles and equipment and positioning to take on a small army is the way it plays out. That said, after less than a few minutes of playtime, I refunded it before getting out of the first training area. A game I got on sale for less than a dollar. Why? Because the game wasn't at all adjusted for the PC. It was a 30 FPS game on PS2, and it was just shat out onto PC with no attempt at making it run right on modern hardware. You look vertically at a speed that is unplayable. When you go prone and try to crawl, you go nowhere. The fix is to use Nvidia Profile Inspector to set a frame cap on the game + other options, but as I started messing with this I gave up. I should not be getting into this confusing muck and potentially messing with other settings by accident, when the issue could have been fixed easily by the developer/uploader/whoever. When they fix this, I'll pay the full price for it. As is, gimmi back my less than a dollar, I don't want this thing on my hardrive in this state.
If you wanted even more complexity to your Simcity experiance, disregard my score and pick this one up. In my experiance, the other titles give you a complex task of running a city and makes it fun and engaging. Up until 4, I've had a good time with the series. It's still all there, looks better, adds more... way more. Too much more, in my opinion. I figured out from watching videos how the new growth system works [different class levels of Sims will want to move into different areas, industry levels change in a similar way, they all tie together, ect] You can micro manage the budget for Powerplants, Shools, Hostipals, ect, to shave off costs You have like... 5 different types of roads now. And highways... It becomes a mess at this point, and a turn off to me. The new graphics are awesome, but then you have trouble finding things like busstops and hostipals, key locations get lost in the density. The underground scene is way more easier to read at first, until you start running into hills, with your waterpipes being lost in deep silly looking canyons that require you to mash the rotation keys to even understand what you're looking for. I feel like I have a LOT more research to do before I can get into this one. Or, I'ma just go back to one of the earlier enteries in the series until I'm ready.
