Sang-Froid is an interesting hybrid of 3rd-person combat and base defense. Before each night starts, you lay out traps to defend your key buildings against the minions of the devil. Then, as night descends, you go out and fight them directly, hoping your traps are well-placed and your aim is true. There's a lot of strategy involved, and you can upgrade both your traps and your weapons. The story is somewhat interesting because it takes the form of almost a folk tale. The setting, early 19th-Century Quebec, is unique and interesting. There is one glaring, HORRIBLE issue with the game, however: The English voicework. Not speaking any dialect of French, I can't say anything about the quality of the native-language VO, but the English work is amatuerish, dull, and somewhat poorly translated. This is by no means a deal-breaker, but you should know going in that it's going to be somewhat jarring.
I never played this game when it was a "current-gen" PC title. My best friend had fond memories of it, and highly recommended it to me for years. When I saw that it was coming to GoG, I eagerly checked the page every day until it was up and bought it immediately. I was not disappointed. Having matured in an era of rapidly increasing graphical capabilities, I was afraid that the game would simply be too "old" to effectively pull me in. There are certain games that I loved as a youth (ex. SimEarth) that are hard to play now because of their downright ugly (by modern standards) graphics. Not this game though. Alpha Centauri holds up perfectly well, and shows off the early glimmers that would make Civilization III such a fantastic game. Don't be put off by the its age; even if you don't have nostalgia for it, it's a great, great game. If you're a fan of the older Civ games, Alpha Centauri will provide you with hours upon hours of fun, challenge, and engrossing depth. If you also like near-future sci-fi, then this will be your favorite game for quite some time.
