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So how does it play on your phone?
what game?
Poor Vincent.
Hello everybody,
as you of course remember, one of the key new features of Battle of Kuban is the new gameplay mode - Career. In this mode, you'll build your character, a military pilot. His career will develop day by day in the chosen theatre of war. Each morning (except the days with non-flying weather), the plan for the day is set and the outcome of an each sortie influences your squadron (the pilots can be wounded, lost, the aircraft can be damaged, etc.). The player character will participate in some of the sorties, while the results of other ones will be generated automatically based on the overall frontline situation, how experienced the AI pilots are and which aircraft with what armament they have, weather conditions and so on.
At the end of the day, all pilots stats are updated and in the course of the following days, they could be awarded and advance in rank. When the player character becomes the regiment commander, new tools are given to him during the planning phase to assign other pilots to a mission, set up their aircraft, weaponry, fuel and plot the flight route.
One of the planned features of the Career mode are historically correct weather conditions for each day (averaged for the theater of war), squadrons positions and what aircraft they had. The daily tasks reflect what the squadron was up to during the set timeframe. Overall, this mode will let you learn more about the battle of Kuban (and Moscow and Stalingrad).
I've been playing this and having a blast. It's like a hybrid of Flashback and Deus Ex.
I haven't encountered any bugs so far, (mapping controls works fine -it seems this was an issue at some point). It looks like the game is more or less patched up by now.
It's pretty impressive that you've got all the world available from the start. You get some pretty cool quests that overlap/interconnect, which is great. You usually have multiple ways to tackle obstacles and one way doesn't block the other, which means you can attack, sneak, talk, hack, however you want it, if you have the appropriate skills of course. Combat could be better but it's not that bad. Interesting Cybernet environment, better than most games. Decent writing and surprisingly good voiceovers. Good quest structure, very nice exploration, beautiful 2D graphics, serviceable -if a bit bland- combat, multiple ways to deal with stuff, interesting cyberspace/hacking. There's some C&C too, which is pretty cool.