Parkan: Iron Strategy Reviews

Pretty good

Slaps harder than my step dad. 🔥

Garbage... 6 of 5 must play. 5 of 5 great story great game-play. 4 of 5 great story average game-play. 3 of 5 average story great game-play. 2 of 5 play only if it's your favourite genre. 1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do. 0 of 5 play if you're a masochist. -1 of 5 avoid. Parkan Iron Strategy score is -1 of 5.

Game is good, but this game needs a remaster, like please, please make a remaster of this game XD.

Build your own Russian Metal Gears! I've played this game years ago and it's still good! I'm still not sure about the ending, though.

This was one of the first ever pc games I played. At the time it was truly amazing to me and a tough game. Even now its still confusing at times tho I know my way around a keyboard a lot more since then. This game is still fun and a joy to play even today. Bring me back to the good old days.

Great little game with rather unique robot limb mutilation mechanic that i never actually found executed fully in any other game. Robot loses all tracks, it can't move and slowly dies on spot, gun is lost or out of ammo, you can still crawl onto enemy repair station and fix it up. For me this is an example of a game with endless potential that was never really finished, never popular despite the uniqueness of the concept. I believe that microsoft even stole some of the code in a similarly made game. Really controversial. Anyway. Glad this piece of nostalgia is now available on steam.

First review aimed for English players. Parkan Iron Strategy is one of the four games in the Parkan series, three of which you can buy on Steam. The fourth one is an "expansion" to Iron Strategy named Part 2. The reason for it's abcense is it's Russian only localization, that's why you are limited to a Youtube walkthrough of it, if you can find one. One things for sure, it's hard. I've played and finished this game a LONG time ago. Replaying it now just shows that nothing has changed. Got nearly stomped by an easy AI at the beginning of a singleplayer map, but managed later on. Yes, by now the game is dated, both gameplay and graphic wise, and the rare and unique genre of FPS/RTS hybrid is so few and far between, with only about 3-4 games total, including this one, that did it right. It's not for the modern gamer, that's for sure, you'd have to go through the clunky controls in all senses, fight with AI that unless stands still, is dumbfound, with accuracy that rivals Stormtroopers (if it's a flying warbot). But when it works, it works. For the price of $3 you get a near 20-30 hour campaign, depending on how you play. Guns, that actually feel like they are doing the right damage. Robots that can actually take a hit and survive even a torn off limb or track. Buildings that can be destroyed, but still take a long beating before even cracking. Everything that can be shot at has a limb-damage-system, with a nice green-to-red coloring. You also get one of the most amazing audio and sound design, which still impresses me to this day. From gun fire, to the sound of warbots, to the music and ambient, to the pretty sweet and top notch English Voice Actors, I dare to say it's even better than the Russian version. And if doesn't start for you on Win 10, then turn on DirectPlay in Windows Features. It worked for me.