Tons of historically accurate units that react realistically to orders and combat, often to your benefit and detriment. Soviet tanks don't have radios until the latter half of the war, whereas every German vehicle seems to have optics and radios from the start. The brilliant turn based, real-time WeGo system plays out a minute at a time as you watch your orders play out. Maneuvering your infantry and mechanized forces where they can maximize line of sight from cover is the key to success but takes time as your orders filter to officers and then regulars, often taking ten seconds or more to execute in real-time, requiring you to anticipate enemy firing positions. There is always an anti-tank gun just around the corner but standing still invites artillery spotters and your green squads might scatter as soon as they take casualties while veterans move more confidently. So many options to toss into quickplay plus the multiplayer options. Only encountered the time controls glitch once and restarting fixed it.
First off, get Dead Space Mouse Fix and don't enable vsync in the menu. Those two steps and you're golden. I also cap the framerate at 60 through the nvidia control panel and I haven't had any door or physics glitches. Runs great on my i7/1060. This game is over a decade old but the presentation is still top notch and the fantastic art direction ties everything together. Every playthrough I notice something new and disgusting. Not kidding when I say the UI design here is still probably the best I've ever seen in a game, in terms of serving the player essential information while also integrating itself seamlessly into the game. Lighting and textures still hold up and the sound design is as good as it gets in the genre. Missions are generally well thought out in service to the story and there is good variety in the weapons, each of which have a secondary fire mode. Having beaten this game many times on both PS3 and 360 I can say the pc version is my favorite way to play now. The increased framerate and precise control really brings the Ishimura to life again. Required playing for action/horror fans.
