Bought it on a whim. Reviews on other sites don't make it justice. It's different and harder from what I'm used to playing, so much that I'd say it's "entertainingly frustrating", mostly because I don't want any of my soldiers to die. You don't get to build massive armies of expendable units. Each of your units has a name and they even get bored if you don't put them to work. So I'm attacking some russians somewhere and they're hitting my guys hard. I retreat, but then my solar powered car runs out of batteries and once its life bar goes red, it catches fire and my driver has to get out. Lucy comes out of the car, gets shot, my other units have already put some distance from her, I call them back to help her and try to divert the shots towards them. Lucy's life bar goes red, meaning she drops to the ground bleeding and unless I get a scientist there to heal her, she's going to die. So I pull Dennis away from training ape men, send him to help Lucy, drop McMillan and Forsyth to the ground so they're harder to hit and the russians retreat. That's right, they retreat. In this game, even the computer enemies value their lives and if they're hurt too much they'll high tail it out of there. Dennis, however, is too slow getting to Lucy and the last bit of red on Lucy's life bar reaches grey and her portrait turns gray. She's... dead. She's... no. No NO NO NO NOOOO! *reloads* I could've gone on without her, but she's Lucy. I've got her since mission #2. This has easily gone on for the last couple of days till three in the morning. I'm having a blast and it only cost me six bucks. The story is corny but great so far (I'm only up to mission seven of the american side) and the gameplay is actually pretty realistic. Buildings don't work without someone inside doing the research. People can bleed out and die (they don't run around firing at the enemy with just 1 hitpoint in them). You really NEED some tactical thinking. It's the perfect definition of Good Old Game.
