Before anything, you need to get the Control Patch as Wargasm is the ultimate PITA without it. With it, it's far more tolerable (although far from perfect).

DiD was too far ahead of themselves with the "drop into anywhere" 1st/3rd person combat strategy game, and I'm sure the sales showed (I loved their F22/AWACS simulator). Let's face it, Wargasm sucks as a strategy game. And the weapons and heafty amount of ammo is unrealistic.

But damn it is fun! I must have wasted way too much time on this game, and my wife knows it!

I love to just take 1 unit like a tank or special forces (with LAWs or remote detonation bombs) and see what I can blow up before I get blown up myself. And when I die, I just get another. It's not realism, and its certainly a time-waster, but it's just damn fun, so that's why I play.

I have a P3-866MHz with a Voodoo3 16MB AGP card (also with 512MB RAM, 40GB HD and running Windows 98 SE) as a "retro gaming" box and this is one game that gets the most time on it (along with Freespace 2 and Independent War 2).

Oh yeah, the classical music selection does set a good mood. It's only limitedly dynamic, but it still fits when driving a tank or sneaking up on one! It's now hard to find and I scratched my original, but I found it on eBay.

Definitely NOT a game you want for a "challenge" or to "complete" as the gameplay/endgame is rather stupid. But just to take some tanks or special forces and pick up some extra LAWs and blow crap up -- it's definitely THE ORIGINAL.

If you want more real strategy and realistic action, then I suggest Operation Flashpoint 1985 with all the patches and the countless user missions out there (which means avoid the Xbox version, ge the PC version). Yes, the graphics are dated on Operation Flashpoint, but it's still fun.