An impressive game, based on a TRUE historical event with truly worthwhile production values. While the system has its complexities and the game does relatively little hand-holding, you will eventually figure the system out. This game was an incredibly pleasant surprise and one of the best games of its type I've ever played.
This game is really fun for me, as it has a mix strategy and fighting parts. Stealth is often the better way but at the end it is optional, which gives the player more freedom. I don't think it is super hard game, if one doesn't speed run main quests I don't feel real fight for survival. Money well spent, ahoj!
I LOVE the games´ storyline, the setting, the ability to have the voiceovers completely in czech.. it adds SO much to the atmosphere.
but i really dislike "commandos" style rts combat with rogelite elements, where little mis-click can decide if the mission was a total success or not, which then and can ruin the rest of the game if you don´t start the mission over.
Aa well written story interspersed with action, and based in a cataclysmic historical time. I love it when games(and movies) are true to the period and the place they are set in. I had never knew the Czechs were fighting in WWI for the Russians. It ties in epic historical events that a largely untold in most of the Western World.
This game is great if you are curious about Russia and the period of the Cheka and Bolshevism. It had echos of a Polsh novel: Ossendowski's "Beasts, Men and Gods" which is a fascinating first hand account of the flight eastwards from the Red Terror.
It's not open world, it's linear, but you are on a train, right?
Atmospherics 5/5 - music is great, graphics are good. The language is true.
Story 5/5 - I haven;t finished it yet but it is exciting and you do end up becoming attached to your men and women who dies or are left behind along the way.
Game play 3/5 - the controls and save ponts were frsutrating at times (wasting hours of my time) selecting men from the map is not easy, which meant I had to hit pause a lot of the time, just to be able to click the right soldier.
Graphics 4/5 - The narrative part is told as a mix of movies and evocative watercolours. It set the scene nicely. The gameplay graphics are beautiful.
Overall, I loved it. Very educational and entertaining.
Cool idea and gameplay but very unbalanced. Even on the highest difficulty, the only problem I am facing is constantly overloaded train with surplus resources.