Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic)

I desperately want someone to remake this game. instead of the moment to moment action of more modern spy games, where you infiltrate bases and assassinate targets, Covert Action is about piecing a mystery together from data you have to gather through infiltration, bugs, trackers, wire taps, and a passive data network from your coworkers. the brilliance is everytime you start a new game, you get a new villain agency and plot to untangle, complete with agents to foil through tailing, tracking, intel gathering, sneaking through buildings and around guards to plant bugs or photograph evidence, or code breaking, all with the goal of stopping the enemy from doing what they want, with failure representing a better opportunity to get em next time,

my wife and I enjoy the crypotography of the "Prose and Codes" game and we like mystery-solving games, so "covert action" was pretty good experience, despite the thirty-five year old age... there is a unique, randomized criminal plot that gets generated each time that you play... one big complaint was the stinky, real-time combat mini-game purchased this title in a "sid meiers bundle" somewhere... but was anything done to update software to justify the steam store price?

[h1] Жесть! Еле вышел... На alt+Q если что. [/h1]

Nostalgia from some of my earliest PC gaming years. Sid's games were an awesome introduction to my early PC gaming experience.

ye! A remake would be swell though.

This game is super old and hard to use. Controls are difficult. Seems to run reasonably well though, so if you used to play this game back in the day it will probably work well, but if you've never played before, don't bother with this one.

I have to echo the other negative reviews here: this is great if you remember playing it back in the day but it's indecipherable to new players. If you don't already know how to play - or don't fancy reading through this game's 100 page (!) manual - this game will just prove to be baffling.