The good:
- Highly customizable weapons. You have suppressors, various scopes, laser pointers, various bullet types.
- Fairly complex shooting mechanics. You have to constantly choose whether you fire a quick but inaccurate shot, or a well-aimed one, which takes more time, which might prove fatal in combat. Oh the choices.
- It's an RPG! Your soldiers have stats and they improve over time, and you'll see the results. And the enemies will feel it in their hides.
The bad:
- You have to restart the game every 2 hours or so or risk crashing to desktop.
- Large impassable and invisible areas around trees, rocks and some hills. You'll often wonder where are you allowed to step.
- Bad dialogue. I played the English version and the writing could've been better.
- During combat, you can pause to give orders to your soldiers. Unfortunately, you'll get to do this a lot, depending how many mercs you employ. More mercs, more pausing. It gets tiring eventually. The mercs have no independent thinking. You can't set them to shoot automatically at anything (with the excpetion of "shoot until dead" order). The mercs often lose track of their target if they run past behind a tree, interrupting aiming and invoking a pause. Pause, pause, pause.
- Indestructible terrain. You CAN destroy some boxes, but when compared to Silent Storm, everything in this game is made out of steel and nailed down, even if it looks flimsy.
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