[b]Red Solstice 2: Survivors[/b] takes place in the distant future. Humanity has left Earth to colonise Mars, but a virulent mutagen called STROL has taken hold of the Red Planet and transformed many organisms into huge, bloodthirsty mutants. As an Executor of “Cell”, it’s your job to lead a team of heavily-armoured heroes and liberate Mars from the grip of the mutants. You fight your way through scattered pockets of resistance, and rendezvous with three others. Each of you has a unique class, a unique look, and a voiced personality. As you band together to complete the do-or-die mission, you’ll be easily swept along. Sadly, though, it doesn’t last. The first campaign mission sees you embarking alone, seeking out named survivors who don’t actually join your party. Instead, your squad consists of three randomly-generated soldiers with names like Bob, Carl, and Eduard. Characters you locate and save don’t join you like in XCOM, they just become disembodied NPC voices on ...

- Getting stuck on the terrain is really a buzz killer for me and the game really needs a function to "get un-stuck", sometimes pressing "T" to swap control methods between RTS and WASD will solve the problem, but that's a been 50/50 shot for me. At one point I was stuck somewhere the mobs couldn't reach me. - Finding the sweet spot when interacting with objects (consoles, lockers and whatnot) can be annoying especially when you are getting mobbed, it's possible to be either to close or at the wrong angle to interact with a power relay.. Those are my top two peeves with RS, the first one is without question the most frustrating since it leads to repeated mission failures. One mechanic I did like is that some maps have facilities that be captured and will help your overall progress through the game, but most of the missions are pretty generic search and destroy or sweep and clear (basically the same thing..). Maybe there is something I'm missing, but it rarely feels that an important o...