The game is turn-based strategy. Fans of the UFO:Enemy Unknown and Jagged Alliance games will probably like this one. You control a squad of up to seven specialist operatives set during World War 2. Each character has certain skills and handicaps so tactics become important on the battlefield. The game has a campaign, however it's just a badly constructed method of connecting scenarios together with a vague plot. The scenarios themselves however are brilliant. Street-level fighting, assault on a farm house, roadblocks. All highly detailed environments with three-dimensional depth. You can place your sniper on the top of the 3rd floor of a building while your scout crawls along the gutter. The game has lots of things that explode too, and the environment is nicely destructable. Need to get out of that house quickly? Blow a hole in the wall. Hear someone in the room above you (nicely portrayed with an ‘audible’ icon) then just shoot thru the ceiling. The physics is good, and some classic and enjoyable moments will unfold when enemies fall off bridges, buildings, or through the floor.
Silent Storm has some annoyances – the voice acting is awful. Enemy soldiers say the same things over and over again when they fall, and it's silly inane things like “mummy!”. The game is also a total system hog – you need a really good system to run this with all the bells and whistles. It's just playable maxed out on my XP2800/ti4200 system with 1GB ram. Large maps still have framerate problems however.