Eh they should stick to the roots of a series, but they won't as it won't sell. Sadly that means we get crap like Rainbow Six Vegas, or OpFlash :DR, heh.
Oh totally, mission 3 was fun as I had to redo it maybe 15 times. Finally realized that the AAPV behind me had no crew so I just hopped in, turned on the cheat that is FLIR in this game and wasted maybe 50 Chinese with the grenade launcher. Sad how useless teammate AI is some of the time (or how pathetic our landing force was...3 IFVs and maybe 20 infantry)
Well, it's not as punishing as the first one. I'm on hardcore and have been shot a couple of times without dying - I did get incapacitated and revived by an AI medic. So far it's not an awful game, but only on the second mission so far. Noticing some odd AI behaviours though, I should have been spotted by some AI troops but they only reacted once I was spotted by some other unit.
Anyone try this yet ? Trying to glean info from the games official forum is a bit difficult with all the apparent COD tards, and reviews are unreliable in most cases.
Plenty of ways, could make wounds not as fatal or the AI crippled, etc. I'll try to play it before I judge it too harshly, but just don't get a sense it'll be as 'hardcore'. And pfft, what do reviewers know :D
Sid really needs to make a sequel to Alpha Centauri. I'll second the recommendation of SEIV. The graphics aren't anything fancy by a longshot, but the gameplay's deep enough to make it fun. It's real fun multiplayer though, countless months spent playing it PBW.