For instance, it generally takes more action points for a sniper to draw a bead on an enemy than it does for a soldier to squeeze off a pistol shot. As in many turn-based games, your characters' actions here are governed by abstract "action points." Things like running, aiming, firing, and crouching all require different quantities of action points, and for the most part, this is an intuitive system. The nuts and bolts of the gameplay are very interesting and represent the best part of the game, along with the presentation. For what it's worth, the game is quite forgiving about character death on the easy and normal settings-characters who lose all their vitality points merely fall unconscious, and will recover if extracted from the mission area. Not that there's anything wrong with that. At any rate, while it's theoretically possible to replace killed team members with fresh recruits back at base (it's game over if ever the main character dies, though), this is the sort of game that will have you saving and reloading your progress frequently. Like Jagged Alliance 2 and games such as X-COM: UFO Defense, Silent Storm features role-playing elements in addition to turn-based, tactical combat, which means your characters will gain experience as they fight, find better weapons, learn new special abilities, and become more resilient to damage. After an introductory mission, you'll get to select five additional squad members with whom you'll conduct a top secret campaign throughout Europe and Asia. In any case, the campaigns' stories aren't well told and primarily unravel through the discovery of awkwardly written textual "clues." Regardless of which campaign you choose, you'll get to select or create a main character, who can belong to one of several nationalities and six different classes, like soldier, sniper, grenadier, and scout. The fact that one of the difficulty settings is called "easy" is a bit misleading because even at this setting, Silent Storm will provide a hearty challenge even for an experienced squad-tactics gamer. Unfortunately, there's no multiplayer mode, but Silent Storm does feature two big campaigns-one for the Allies and one for the Axis-that may be played in any order and at any of three levels of difficulty. However, the core gameplay is so cool that you'll probably be willing to forgive Silent Storm's shortcomings.Ī very slick presentation highlights this challenging and addictive turn-based game of squad tactics.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Silent Storm is unfortunately a little too open-ended for its own good, as the dynamic campaign structure is a little weak, and the game suffers from some noticeable balance issues. The game offers a lot of interesting tactical depth, to boot. Silent Storm features a surprisingly impressive presentation, complete with realistic physics and some of the most destructible environments ever seen in a game, which lead to some very exciting unscripted moments. It's primarily a turn-based strategy game of small-squad tactics, and it plays out like an homage to the cult classic Jagged Alliance 2. Occasionally in top-secret walking tanks. Just when you thought World War II was pretty played-out as a setting for computer games, along comes Silent Storm, which has enough great qualities that it'll make you happily indulge in yet another game that pits the Axis and Allies against each other.
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