At first, your choices are limited to a smattering of ground units and the odd flimsy vehicle which couldn't repel a strong fart, but it's not long before the big guns become available, including a vast array of behemoth tanks, artillery and repair trucks as well as the ability to call in air strikes.
The choice of hardware is quite staggering - 70 unique units per side -each one replete with stats for armour, speed, hit points and damage. Once you've made your choices, or simply opted for the default set-up, you're thrown straight into the action.
At first blush, the levels all look identical, with their uniform, sand-covered landscapes sprawling unspectacularly across your monitor. Linger a little longer though, and you'll discover that each one is carefully crafted, challenging you with brainteasing strategic conundrums and offering you a variety of ways to tackle each obstacle.
And while the visuals aren't much to talk about, the musical score is rousing and perfectly evokes the brutal warfare that's unfolding in front of you. It's here, on the arid African battlefields, that Desert Rats demonstrates its considerable depth. Troops can attack specific vehicle parts such as turrets and caterpillar tracks, rendering them impotent or immobile.
Trucks can tow artillery and carry troops, but are easily picked off by enemy forces. What's more, every vehicle has a set amount of posts to be manned. The more posts you fill, the more effectively that unit will perform. You can also repair and steal any of the disabled and neglected vehicles you find scattered across the wasteland, giving you the choice of either diluting your existing vehicles' contingents in order to man your new armoured additions, or leaving these hulking metal skeletons scattered like corpses in the sand as you persevere with a smaller yet more efficient force.
Perform well and you'll be rewarded with Prestige Points, which give you access to special units and act as a great incentive to complete secondary missions and pre-plan your every move. Do you risk the minefields or take a shortcut through a city where bazooka-toting enemy troops lie in ambush, ensconced in every house? Will you take the heavily defended direct route to an objective or try the long but less rigorously guarded road? Your choices are many, although some levels do smack of funnelling in to order to adhere to the throwaway storyline.
So far so good then, but let me just stop you there before your exuberance gets out of hand, because sadly, Desert Rats is far from perfect. Tanks and trucks sometimes go off in wrong directions or totally overshoot their markers, subsequently wading into minefields. Sometimes they simply refuse to move at all. Wandering off on ludicrous detours, boxing each other in or driving round in circles are also fairly common complaints, and while loading troops into houses to provide them with extra cover is a great touch, unloading them can be a hazardous affair, especially when they decide to leave by the wrong exit and end up boxed in by a clump of trees.
And as if your men didn't have enough to worry about with the searing heat and the hot sand in their cracks, the poor sods' lives are made even harder by a chronic lack of optimisation. Even on a P4 2GHz machine, the game occasionally slows to an epileptic jerk, especially on the more populated levels. Jack Rainer 1 point. Trusteft 0 point.
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