Best strategy game to ever grace my cd-rom ...
Other reviewers here stated that the programmers designed this in a linear
fashion; hence one way to beat each mission, in a specific order. While
this is true, I challenged myself to try and bet each mission against the
grain, meaning in a totally different sequence. Most missions allowed this
flexibility, though it reduced your rating at the end(took longer to do), which I didn't care about in the first place anyhow.
Graphics were good for the time, being 2D. Sound was Ok. My sister still mentions one of the Green Beret's lines ... "I'm coming...". Since I used him a lot in missions, we was "coming" a lot! LOL ...
I don't recall having played more hours on a single game than on this one.
I haven't played this game for over 8 years but remember it like it was yesterday. Pproblem with this game is that the speed of the game is related to the CPU speed. It was designed for old Pentium systems and thus on Pentium 3 and up systems, it runs at a pace making it pratically unplayable. No fix ever came out for this. Checking forums, it seems using a utility to slow down the CPU seems to make game playable. Perhaps it time to take the dust of the disc and reload this classic on my P4.
I also own each of the following games in the series, equally good (Except Strike force)
It remains the oldest PC game in my collection and I refuse to let it go.
Graphics : 9
Gameplay : 10
Sound : 8
Replay value : 10
Tilt : 10
Rating : 9.5