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Awesome! But some flaws...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I saw this game at a local store for $20 and after looking at the box I had to buy this game.

When I installed this game I was blown away. The graphics are still beautiful despite the age of the game, it is fully 3d, there are destructible environments, tons of weapons, and an rpg element (your characters gain levels and you can choose some skills).

This is a turn based strategy game with some real time parts (when no enemies see you or are near you can walk around freely so that the things move along quickly).

There are a lot of missions which, sadly can be incredibly frustrating at times. There are even random encounters, which are pretty exciting at first. Unfortunately the main missions and the random encounters lose their appeal after a short while.

There is hardly any replay value for this game--even playing as the axis instead of the allies gets boring quickly as some of the levels turn out to be the same--except you are attacking a base instead of defending.

Combat can be pretty fun, although most of the times it seems a little lame (after the initial fun wears off). Why? Usually combat means standing as far away as possible and firing my rifles at enemies who are firing their rifles at me. (I give each of my characters a rifle and a machine gun and grenades of course, which essentially makes them ready for every situation).

I'll admit that being able to destroy everything in this game is fun, but at times it just gets annoying. In some levels there are explosive barrels lying around everywhere and if you hit them or if your character throws a grenade in the wrong place it can seriously screw you over. I'm not talking about dying but finding out after 20+ minutes of playing that the area you need to go to is now inaccessible because of the explosive barrels or grenade blew up the path. This has happened frequently. In one case I had to pick up some scienties lying around somewhere but the grenades had blown up so much of the building I couldn't even reach him. This was after 30 minutes of fighting and sweating. Obviously it isn't fun to restart.

Looting is probably one of the most exciting parts of the game. Picking up new useful weapons from your foes is just as fun as playing an rpg and digging through treasure chests.

One problem involving the loot though, is that when you kill someone and the items fall, it can sometimes take minutes for the items to fall on the ground properly. What I mean is that the item has to travel from the character to the ground. Sometimes this doesn't happen properly. I've seen rifles spinning around on the ground for several minutes (and you have to wait while this happens). I've also seen items fall through the ground and disappear. Strange.

If this game were multiplayer it would probably be the most played game in the world. Sadly it doesn't look like there will ever be a multiplayer version of this game. I would love to play against people online.

One last note: if you are expecting only to use authentic weapons, then you will be disappointed. There are some "experimental" weapons included in this game, such as lazers and battle armor. I think they are intereting weapons and they are fun to use, but wish they hadn't been included.

Overall, this is a great game and you should try it out.

Best strategy game since Jagged Alliance 2 , hands down...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: January 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is without a doubt the best tactical strategy/RPG game Ive played since Jagged Alliance 2. You simply owe it to yourself to buy this game, it brings hours of amazing joy...

Not my favorite

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 20
Date: February 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Silent Storm is a fairly good game but as others have said there's quite a few bugs. I put up with the bugs in Sacred because I loved the game but this Encore game is not my favorite.

dont buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 32
Date: March 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I tossed this game in the trash can...very boring...silly may be a better word.

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