for bringing this wonderful IO Interactive game to all of us dutiful PC fans. The combat is 3rd person based like many games of the time. But what made it so unique was the sense of progression during the campaign. You go from being a plumber, to the leader of a ragtag group of American Mujahedeen fighting against a renewed Soviet threat and subsequent invasion. There are several points in the mission structure where you are able to choose different levels to play through and conquer before others. If you choose one level, you can knock out a bridge that would have brought troops into the play area of a completely separate level. You are assigned troops who you can give orders to, similarly to games like Brothers In Arms, and the gang recruitment feature in GTA:SA. If you enjoy the Gang Wars from San Andreas, or you like third person shooters with squad mechanics you will undoubtedly enjoy this treasure of a game, that unfortunately has had no word of a sequel. But with the success of IO, hopefully they'll one day resurrect it.
