I never played the original game (well, will defenitely do now after the buy, hehe), so I'm familiar only with Sentinels (and a bit with Hammer&Sickle, but that's another story and it isn't included in this bundle anyway). I bought myself a Russian license years back when I was probably 15-16 y/o, and believe me - not so much games ever gave me such an enjoyment and consumed my day and sleeping hours so effectively:) The vast choice of weapons, a very diverse international army at your command (I believe there are more characters in S3 than the mercenaries were able in JA2), almost complete freedom in choice of a way to complete missions, not-so-easy (and not so various, unfortunately) but rewarding random encounters, great tactical options... I think there are simply no more games like this, blame me but I enjoyed Silent Storm even more than JA or X-COM! Though the mentioned here for a number of times "plot twist" and inevitable face-off with panzerkleins was pretty rough for me back those days and spoiled the final part of the game for me. May be I will train this "no-pk" mod this time... or may be not:) This is too brilliant game about heroes of unseen war in alternative history setting, and not to be passed by just because of some annoying sci-fi elements
