Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising

THE GOOD:
Great immersive storyline with carefully developed characters, requires sound tactical reasoning, brilliant graphics, plenty of hours of play.

THE BAD:
Sometimes a little easy, identical strategies can be applied to multiple missions, the game characters are not always introduced, weapons could pack more meat!

SUMMARY:
Hardcore strategy gamers will adore this game. The limited number of units you can use at any one time means real strategy is required, none of that "produce a thousand tanks" rubbish. An extremely clever story and suberb graphical realism make for a very involving experience - when it's snowing, you really feel cold. The units are very much geared towards specific roles and learning to use them effectively is an art. You have to select an appropriate crew member to control each vehicle and you can become surprisingly attached to them (even though the crew themselves can't be killed).

On the off-side,...

THE GOOD:
Gfx, fx, story, and game blend

THE BAD:
clumsy vehicle control

SUMMARY:
A modern Carrier Command

THE GOOD:
Excellent interface for controlling all of your attack and recon vehicles. Simple to use interface and command interface allowing multiple commands and therefore excellent flexibility for individual playing styles.

THE BAD:
This game is demanding for those unfamiliar with multiple strategic command intefaces. It is fairly difficult to keep ontop of everything at the beginning.

SUMMARY:
As is usual with these kinds of games, the learning curve becomes the driving force behind playing the game. The more you learn about controlling what you build, the more you want to learn about the possibilities open to you. Destruction, demolition, air supremecy, land domination and general "beat the enemy" scenarios, drive you on to complete your missions.
I can stop playing it myself, and many hours of pleasure are still ahead.

THE GOOD:
Storyline, graphics, sound & structure of missions.

THE BAD:
Sometimes a little hard to know what to do.
A little hard to match AI persons with correct veicle

SUMMARY:
From the moment I heard about this game (which has roots way back to the age of Amiga) I knew it had to be good. There are only SO many really good games nowdays - but this is one of them!
What i like most is two things:

1) For once you (the player) have a story worth fighting for. It is well written and told in a very appealing way - not unlike a graphic novel. The table is turned; the world is NOT a bad, dark and cynic place. It has survived and created something good out of it self. BUT not all like this new brave world. Some need the old ways back....

2) All missions are story driven in a nice clear way.
You advance slowly but surly as you visit one island after the other. This game has a structure that gives you action and...

Visually stunning game, gameplay surpasses anything i've played before, great concept. Good mixture of FPS and RTS. This is the type of game that has me playing till all hours of the morning, i just want to keep playing!! This is a must buy!!