Sigh, the best game no one played. This is a great combo of and RPG and RTS mixed in with the best of old school comic book characters and storytelling.

In case you're wondering, this one does work.

ThankYou, Irrational Games for this unique, utterly fun and most uber´heroic RPG georgessness You blessed us with .. Never mind the date of creation - this thing still kicks some in´glorious assess all around the gaming board of nowdays produced self´erious halfbaked sh(allow)it. :)
It doesn´t take it self seriously, yet it possesses some seriously great game-mechanics .. Very engaging and fun variable (real/slowdown/stopped time) combat system, wide range of memor(like)able superheroes (and their antagonist) with dozens well represented powers to choose from, superb controls and u.i., well written and (with proper dose of pathosilliness) narrated script, destructable enviroment and myriads of nazies to beat.

Oh, how much I wish they make a sequel! Deserves one to be kick-startered up and above the stars.
/ Don´t get confused by the play-time above .. I had been making looov to this beauty a loooot more before my steam-days started to call the shots (and other mouse-button-bound activities:) /

I've read some complaints that the game feels more like an expansion. Those are not without merit, but I'd say it's superior to the first one. The story is even more crazy, but always interesting, the levels are more varied and look much better (thanks to some comic-bookey textures), the mission objectives are generally more interesting, the new characters are cool and it's not as long as the first game, which I feel is an advantage, considering I was getting kinda bored during the last couple of hours of the first game.

At the price you can usually buy these during major sales, it's totally worth it.

bought it because it reminds me of my childhood and my dad, i miss my dad

I had no idea this game has such a thriving modding scene

Good game. Don't buy on steam. My 1.2 hours of playtime have been riddled with crashes and the application freezing everything.

A 4-hero bird's-eye-view Real-Time Strategy game where you fight the forces of evil over a series of discrete missions.

THE GOOD
- This game is surprisingly fun.
- There's a rock-paper-scissors aspect to super-heroes, and it can be fun to find good team synergies and figure out how to defeat enemies.
- The graphics are surprisingly good for a classic game, still perfectly acceptable by modern indie-game standards.
- The story is pretty standard 4-colour comic book nonsense. This might be good or bad depending on your taste!
- It's fun to create your own custom super-heroes. Be careful, though, because if they are too powerful it can ruin the fun of the game by making it too easy.

THE BAD
- If the depiction of Nazis and other enemies of the USA during/after WWII might offend you (and the depictions are very stereotypical!), you should probably take a hard pass on this game.
- The heroes are a bit dumb, requiring a lot of micro-management. Unless you give them a direct order they sit around doing nothing. Any abilities with an energy cost will only activate once. Anytime they get stunned or whatnot, they stop what they were doing. So you need to babysit all 4 of them and constantly monitor them to make sure they are behaving correctly. This is mitigated somewhat by just getting used to doing it reflexively over time.

THE UGLY
- The game is overall very polished--there aren't many bugs to speak of.
- There was one mission where a character had to prepare a device, and it wasn't immediately obvious how to do this. They probably could have explained it a bit better. You actually have to right click on them and use an ability they don't normally have.
- Characters can sometimes get stuck on obstacles when trying to move. Particularly annoying if you told them to move a long distance and then panned away to deal with something else.
- The game crashed on me once, and I lost about 30 minutes of play time.

I have never liked a game as much as this, and have never desired the final game to complete the trilogy as much as this series. I liked the first game, but loved the second one. Both game have fantastic characters, but the second one has more of them. Great stories, great character interactions, completely interactive enviroments (you can destroy an entire city if you want). This time around we see major villain vs villain action in the story! Graphics are good for the time the two games were made, the only thing that bothered me from the first game to this one is the ability to over or under power your attacks but it didn't affect anything that much. 9/10

Superhero RPG. Camp presentation, immersive combat. Some simplistic, unbalanced character creation - hilarious. Better than the first one. Buy it!