Deadly Dozen Reloaded

First of all I'd like to say, that It is a game of my childhood. I have been played it around 20 years ago and no, when I saw the reloaded version I immediately bought it. I saw many negative reviews before started play it, and now I am sure that I am disagree to all of them. Of course I am not very objective at reviewing this game, because, as I said, it is one of symbols of my childhood, but as an indie game developer I am sure that this game is actually pretty good. Most negatives told about it's boring gameplay and so on. I say it is definitely not boring, because this gameplay is true gold in game industry. Why? Because it offers you to make your own scenario and your own script while gaming. Yes, there are no any cutscenes, no face animations, no lipsync, but I think we almost forget what actually GAME is. It is not movie, it is not million rules that makes your head spin around because of complexity and difficulty of them. No! The true game is about distinct gameplay, distinct goal and distinct achievement. This game is simple. Maybe too much simple, but it gives you the desired pleasure if you take its rules. In this way this game is almost perfect. So what do we have inside? + Gameplay. As I said earlier it is simple, but it works: you have only few things that you can do but they actually exactly what you need in tactical shooter. You have four guys in your team (you can choose 4 of 12 in every mission). They have really distinct skills that you can combine: you always need sniper, you always need someone who can care a heavy weapon and a couple of light weapons guys. You can choose what they have in the beginning of the mission. The gameplay also offers you some tactical possibilities: you can give commands with wheel menu for each private or to all of them together. After the first mission you get used to control thiw wheel and because of it every step and every roundup become very unique. That what I was talking about. You create your own situation in every street or crossroad. You need to think — you can arrange people before fight in the bushes or behind corners in different places and calculate risks or you can just go and kill everyone in face-to-face combat. But what is the cool thing is the second one variant is not working, because one or two shots and all members of your team are dead. It make you choose wisely how to plan your combat. It is pretty realistic thing and I really like how it works. Also gameplay offers you few additional coll things such as using mines (anti-personnel or anti-tank, the are different), grenades (really useful thing, believe me) and explosive. And to drive some vehicles during tha game (it is not necessary and looks more like cool feature from the 2002). Again. The cool thing is that you don't have millions things to work with like in othe modern tactical games, but almost every thing that you HAVE you actually need and it affect on gamplay very much. One wrong dicision can turn your game into END GAME screen. + It is not so difficult and hardcore as someone wrote about Deadly Dozen. You just need to dive in process a little bit more than you usually do (in modern games). + Music. I love the music. As a professional musician and game soundtracks maker (If you need some good music for your next projects — you know where to find me))). I can say it is very good for 2002. Even now it sounds nice. Also the music here is your friend: it is thanks to it that you will determine whether you are in someone's sights or not for most of the time. + Graphics is not perfect, especially if you keep in mind that this is a 99% copy of 2002 game (level design was much more poor that days) but I have to say that some levels and assets looks nice. I personally appreciate the last level: with such limited capabilities developers made pretty nice work with woods and greens. You feel atmosphere of that place and it is exatcly what you need. Nothing more. + The 6-th level is really good at game-design I think. You are experiencing real tension and excitement, because you can die at any moment, which brings the game very close to reality: not graphically, but with competent gameplay. Ok, here's minuses. - Graphics (yeah, now let me be more objective) is pretty poor for nowadays. It looks strange, because I think it was possible to make it looks a little bit more interesting. - Optimization. More of the time it fells super smooth with 60+ (maybe more, idk), but sometimes, rarely, I catched some strange lags during the gameplay. Also my videocard somehow became very loud. I don't understand why, but it is true. I have 2060 RTX. Levels also loaded for quite a long time. - Bugs. It was more like funny, not breaking-game bugs, but still they broke atmosphere a little bit. For instance, T-pose of the enemy bodies after reloading savegame. It is looks scary, because you thing they are alive, but after that it is boceme funny when they stay still in their original poses (dogs too). Also some buildings doesn't touch the ground and stuck in the air at the height of half a foot. One building had no any collider. But there was no game-breakers for me. - SFX. It would be nice to hear more german radio-speeches than one for 10 levels. - Only 10 levels is too few for the game like that. I think it deserves twice as much! So, verdict. The game is very good and copes well with its goals, it makes you think and plan and give you a little understanding that in the war there are no Rembos who can kill thousends of enemies withous getting a scratch. It teaches you to take care of the team where everyone is mportant. Could this realoaded version of the game be better? Of course. But it gives you desired pleasure of true gaming. Thank to developers for reanimating this game. It was just what I wanted and I wish you to make a sequel or extension. 10 burned invaders tanks of 10