I remember playing this back in the day (wow now I sound like my dad...). This is a classic game, full of features and different way's to accomplish objectives. Not only that it has an excellent, albeit done to death, story. I think it was ahead of it's time. To be honest it has aged quite well. The game is very similar to Commando's. Each character has different abilities and assists in ways of sneaking, and smashing your way around the map to complete certain scenarios. There are main characters but also random characters that join with similar abilities to your main ones. This helps as in the downtime during missions you can assign people back at your base to construct things like traps and nets etc. It really was a cleverly designed game and back in the day when you did not get the chance to release a day one patch or the mass production of clone video games. A lot of care and love went into this one and I highly recommend it for 10 bucks, you will get excellent value for your time, i've replayed it more than once. This is my opinion however, as i do enjoy strategy rpg games. If you prefer the FPS route than you probably wont like this.
So I had leave for 3 weeks and at the time there was a gaming drought... In my desperation I grabbed a copy of this, expecting very little in the way of entertainment hoping just to kill a few hours. Wow, what a surprise! The depth and replay value of this game are amazing for an indie development, not to mention the potential for expansion. The charecters are not just simple placeholders they have a back story and throughout the game you get to know them more and more, becoming attached to your conquerers (?). Combat appears simplisitc but there are a number of classes and skills to make tactics interesting. Graphics are on par with todays strategy games (bar total war series but when you have a budget as high as the sky...) and the story is enough to keep you interested with dips and turns along the way. Overall I would highly recommend this game to strategy buffs, historians and roleplaying enthusiasts. My only gripe at the moment is the AI is a little bit dodgy, something which can be patched no doubt, but sometimes they do some stupid things, that and i would also like the ability to increse the accuracy of ranged weapons without promotion. Minor gripes really.
