totally sweet
You control the worlds anti-evil alien squad, and you fight alien all over the planet. You can establish bases everywhere, in the sea that is, not on land, so you can monitor all alien activity, and receive emergency alerts, in time for you to do something about it. The game puts you in control of the management of every detail of the game, so to speak. You have to decide where to build your base. You must decide what kind of buildings you want in your different bases, what kind of research do you want your scientists to concentrate on, and what you want to produce of new weaponry, it literally puts you in control of everything
The game is played on three different levels, there are the mangement which i have written about, there are the shoot-outs with your underwater subs againts the ufo`s, but thats actually a kind of mini-strategy game, and then there is the turn based strategy game, where you do your alien hunting.
Whats really cool about the TBS is that you have lots of choices here aswell, first of all, you have to hire aquanauts, that have different skills, some panic very easy, and others are great shooters. You have to equip them with guns, ammo, grenades, and even stunners of different kinds, so you can capture live aliens, for further research. The environment's you encounter are very alike, but i think they are generated as you start the mission, so there are no chance you can stumble on the same place over and over.
The game has, to my great anguish, some very, very annoying aspects i now will list up
First of all, you are constantly poor, the way you earn money is to fight off and kill as many aliens as you possibly can, and the nations of the world gives you ``donations`` pending on your success. The major flaw is that you can`t fight off the aliens that doesent show on your radar, and you only start with one base, so you can`t cover the other side of the planet
Second, the aliens are way over powered, they have better guns, ships, bigger bases, you name it. You can get their technology by research, but that takes hours, and a lot of money you don`t have
Third, the aliens have something called a ``molecular control`` which allows them to take over the minds of your aquanauts, so that they either freak out, or start to blast down the rest of your aquanauts, there are ways to protect your aquanauts from this, but again time and money are not in abundance
I would just like to point out that this was once a very popular game,perhaps still is, but i have never heard of someone actually completing the game
But when you boil it down, its still worth playing and its a superb game, and it will give you tons of hours with gameplay, even if you fail to complete the game....., it actually has a a very good replay value....., because there are so many different ways to go about it. Choose to research something entirely different, choose another battlefield strategy. Even if you are one of the elusive few who have conquered the game, i dare to say, you still havent explored the entire game