About Central London United Kingdom:
I recommend this game but with a qualifier: if you are a fan of espionage and/or spy games with a hefty amount of text and chess-like strategy, so much so that you could forgive this game’s faults (and there are many), then pick this up. Otherwise, I would advise that you avoid this particular title as it stands.If you would like a little more detail before you decide, read on…First, the bad. Right off the bat this game is not a remaster, it is a re-release. If you were expecting an update to an old-game with better UI or graphics, you will be disappointed. Speaking of UI, it’s terrible. It was bad when I played this back in the DOS and ’95 days and it’s still bad now. With time and a couple of playthroughs you will get used to it and everything will become second nature but I’ll be honest, it is a slow, painful process getting to that level of comfort with this awful UI. Knowing what the different icons do, how to perform in-game actions, how to find characters, etc. You will NEED to know how to navigate the UI seamlessly in order to properly enjoy this game. While you struggle with the UI at the same time you are going to be confronted with another dilemma: “What the heck do I do?”. Though the game will provide you with a grand total of two tutorials it barely scratches the surface of how to use your Specialists and Agents properly. This is one of those games where you have to read the manual (find that here: to get context and understand what your mission is and why you are doing it. The manual will also give you a bit more information on what the various characters are, what they do and what purpose they can serve. Once you are familiar with this foundational information you can move onto the good parts of this game…Now the good. This game, as flawed as it is, gives a great amount of freedom to conduct your covert operation in Sao Madrigal (the island’s name). Although your mission is to ultimately depose the President of the country and install a more western-friendly government, how you accomplish that is left up to you. Take care though, you have to somewhat maintain a fine balance between subtlety and Direct Action. Sure, its fun to have you Military Agents and Specialist go hog wild and blow stuff up. It’ll even get you some support amongst the population early on. But the Pro-Government Forces will piece together that something is up and they’ll start cracking down on your Agents and Assets or even worse, your Specialist. Also, if you attack properties with civilians and they end up getting killed or injured during the action, they’ll turn against you and the Opposition Forces and directly help Pro-Government forces in taking you down.
