Great approach to squad based combat

User Rating: 9 | Silent Storm: Gold Edition PC
This game is part Role Playing Game, part Turn Based Strategy and part Action.

It has the player development and inventory management of an RPG, while the combat unfolds in a very cool turn based style and it mostly revolves around fighting.

I would say the combat system is easily the highlight of this game. You have a number of action points to distribute each turn, so you have to carefully plan your steps or else you will end a turn standing and vulnerable to enemy gun fire.

There is a great range of WW2 weapons, including explosives. The environments are fully destructible and there is kind of a rag doll physics engine for corpses, which is neat. As mentioned in the Gamespot review, the destructable environments really influence gameplay as you can blow a room apart from a distance and kill the enemies inside without exposing your team to gunfire.

A "9" is a high score to give a game, however, I think that this game's unique gameplay merits this score. Unfortunately there wasn't a lot of marketing support for this game so it is kind of unheard of, however, it is rewarding, unique and memorable--especially if you like team based combat.