Iron Storm is one of those games that had "promise." With a wonderful story, and a rather unique concept, you'd think that the game would have become one of the top games when it was released; and had the game been released when it was supposed to have been, then yes, it probably would have. However, there's a problem. Iron Storm was meant to be released around the time of the original Half Life game. Looking at the graphics, it's not hard to tell this. Problem was, the developer ran into some trouble. By trouble, I mean that they ended up being bought out by another company, who took one look at Iron Storm and said "Eh, not worth it." So a development team of several dozen men and women (more than enough really) was suddenly cut down to only a handful. Then, to make things worse, even though the game needed some serious work the new owners wanted not to produce quality entertainment as the previous company did, and instead sought to just get as many games out there as they could. The saying "If you throw enough crap at the wall, something's gotta stick" comes to mind. Well in Iron Storm's case, that was the company's philosophy. Iron Storm was released in the latest Alpha build, with all the bugs associated with it. To the point that one out of three discs which were sold, wouldn't even work. If you can get around numerous bugs, gameplay issues, and random crashes for no apparent reason; then the game's somewhat worth the trouble.
