G4techTV has posted their review on Silent Storm. “Silent Storm is well worth a look. It's accessible, fun, and technically impressive, making it one of the better strategy games we've played in quite some time” – says its author Matt Keil, rating the game with 4 out of 5. Read full review

Silent Storm was included in “PC Gamer recommends” column of the May issue of the American PC Gamer edition. The heading to the column says: “Recent reviews have unearthed gaming gems. If you haven’t played ‘em, get to it”. Silent Storm, rated with 83%, has got the credit as “Fully destructible environments make this squad-based tactical strategy game a big surprise”. Nival fully agrees with such estimation - and take our word, there are more surprises to come with the Silent Storm: Sentinels.

Entertainment Depot has awarded Silent Storm with Editor's Choice, confirmed by the score of 85 %. The accompanying review is more than a review, it's a love story, where the author Matt Hart reveals his gaming experience in a step by step manner, starting with "I remember the exact moment I fell in love with Silent Storm...". More of his confession can be found here.  

Fresh Silent Storm reviews were posted throughout the Net. Wargamer.com, that granted Silent Storm with Reader’s Choice Bronze Award, has come with a detailed, 5-page-long review of the game. Its author Michael Eckenfels gives a close look to all the aspects of Silent Storm and concludes that “This game is a giant in turn-based tactical combat, easily taking over the reins of previous classics and in the process, defining new boundaries”. Another review was posted at Digital Entertainment by Jake McNeil. He granted the game with the score of 8 out of 10, defining Silent Storm as follows: “It's unique and original, it's deep, it has a decent number of options, it's graphically impressive, and it boasts some wonderful detail in the most unexpected places”. Please find the full text of the reviews by the links below: Wargamer and Digital Entertainment.

Silent Storm has been granted a triple Game of the Month award from three well-known gaming portals - GameSpy, IGN and GameSpot!! "Silent Storm's brilliance comes from the amazing new strategic possibilities as the game's physics engine and fully destructible environments open up", - says GameSpy's representative. You can find detailed reviews and game awards by the following links - GameSpy, IGN and GameSpot.

“Giochi per il Mio Computer”, the best selling Italian PC Games magazine has graced Silent Storm with the “Editors Choice” award and scored the game with 8 out of 10. As you can remember, Silent Storm was also a choice of Giochi’s Finnish and Portuguese colleagues, who also granted the game with different cool awards. Grazia!

«Silent but Deadly» is a headline to the fresh Silent Storm review published on AroundCinci.com. Ben Rudick gives Silent Storm quite a close look, spending some time on each aspect of the game. He graces the game with 8.9 and says: "Congratulations to Nival for finding new life in what I thought to be an exhausted market... The game is a joy to play". Check out his review for details. 

IGN’s Vault network has posted a Wrap-up Report on Silent Storm. Dmitry Zakharov, Project Leader for Silent Storm and Dmitry Kolpakov, our Community Manager have spoken of Silent Storm’s development process and shared its foremost issues with IGN’s readers. So, we recommend you to check out the Report, in order to learn the major decisions we made and challenges met with this game.

"With a solid combat engine and excellent graphics, Silent Storm is a lot of fun to play", says Steven 'Westlake' Carter, the author of Silent Storm review at Game-Over.net. He rates it with 87% and recommends the game "to anybody who enjoys tactical strategy games". Please find the review here.

Fresh Silent Storm review was posted at Day-Trum. The author rated the game with 4 out of 5, giving the following final verdict: “On the surface, Silent Storm may look like yet another strategy game set that's in World War II. But it manages to cover new ground and offer a distinctly different experience. Those who love strategy will enjoy this one”. You can find the full review here.

Cyber Gaming Net posted a fresh review of Silent Storm and scored it as 4 out of 5. Here is what the author, Charles Ju, says: “It sets a clear benchmark for other games due to its original concepts and its crisp gameplay… This is a definite buy for all gamers looking for something new to occupy their attention”. Click here to check out the review.

The game portal IGN.com has graced Silent Storm with a “Game of the Month” award saying that with this game the turn-based, squad-level, tactical genre is not dead, but happy and resilient! Check out the news at IGN.

 "All together, Silent Storm is a lot of fun, and is a needed, recent addition to the turn-based strategy genre", says Kyle Ackerman in his Silent Storm review at Frictionless Insight. He rates the game with 4 out of 5. To read the full review please click here.

 A new Silent Storm review was spotted at GameSpot. Its author Greg Kasavin scores Silent Storm as 8.2 of 10, mentioning, that “Silent Storm is a must-have for those who've enjoyed games like Jagged Alliance 2 in the past”. Chek out the full review here.

 “A turn-based, tactical treasure” - this is the headline to Silent Storm review at IGN. As the review goes on, Steve Butts describes all game aspects, from the destructible environment and AI that “offers a reasonably tough challenge” to animations, that “are quite good and very natural”, rating the game with 8,1 out of 10. Please find full review here.

“There’s been a flurry of games issued from the Russian development studio Nival Interactive recently with a strong emphasis on both accuracy and strategy. This is my second review of a Nival game, the first being Blitzkrieg, and I must admit I’m starting to like their style” says Giant in his Silent Storm Review at Deadalfs. “So to sum up, Silent Storm is probably the best team-based tactical shooter out there at the moment” he concludes and rates Silent Storm with 8 out of 10. Read review.

Learning something new is good at any age. A whole set of different materials on Silent Storm has been posted at High School Gamers. First of all, you can read their review, where Luke Treu rates Silent Storm with 9 out of 10 and gives general information about the game. If you desire for a closer look, you can read the interview with Dmitri Zakharov, Silent Storm Project Leader, to learn more details about Silent Storm and its add-on Silent Storm: Sentinels. Finally, if you feel that you know everything about Silent Storm you can take part in Silent Storm contest, where correct answers will give you a chance to win a free copy of Silent Storm. Got it already? Well, don’t be selfish, you can earn one for your friend!!! He got it either? Well… Does your grandma have one?

Fresh Silent Storm review is posted at Worthplaying.com. Here what its author Velvey says: “With a combination of destructible environments, a great 3d engine, role-playing elements and challenging turn-based fighting, Silent Storm comes up a winner”. The score of 8 out of 10 backs up this verdict while some details on the game told in the review explain it. Yeah, it’s worth playing with no doubt, baby!

"It is the standard against which all future turn-based tactical combat games will be measured, an instant classic that will hopefully rekindle interest in a slowly dying genre," says Cenk Adam Sensoy in his Silent Storm review at ZenGamer. He rates Silent Storm with 9 out of 10 and awards it with the ZenGamer "Must Buy" Award, nice, shiny, and yin-yang-shaped. Read the full review.

“Silent Storm is a blend of RPG, strategy and action.” – says Ranko "Arjuna" Trifkovic in his review at Action Trip. “In any case, no matter which genre you prefer, Silent Storm is a product well worth the invested money. The open-ended gameplay, comprehensive overall design, and a strong replay value are the game's defining characteristics”. He gave Silent Storm 80% and a close detailed look in his review.

 “This game is definitely worth checking out for every self-respecting turn-based strategy fan,” says Ryuken in his Silent Storm review at Fragland.net. “The graphics, the destructible environment, the physics, the sound effects, the non-linear campaign and the many strategical possibilities make it a very enjoyable game” he conludes and rates the game with 86%. Read the full preview.

Active Reviews has posted a fresh review of Silent Storm. "Any fans of turn-based combat, WW2, blowing stuff up, or all of the above need to get this game immediately" says its author, rating Silent Storm with 4,5 out of 5. You can also find quite detailed information on the game in his review.

The Weather Channel probably hasn’t said a word about North America being affected by Silent Storm that is spreading over almost the whole continent. However, Encore has. As the game got released in North America on January the 20th, Encore published the news that tells about “one of many eagerly awaited games debuting in 2004”, giving a short description of its “most unique features”.

Hurray! "Silent Storm" has been awarded with the title of the Best RPG-Strategy 2003 at the RpgDot.com. "Add more depth with some well-developed RPG elements and you have one of the best strategy games in years", - says Dhruin, the representative of the site. Find out more clicking here

RPG Codex has interviewed Dmitry Zakharov, Project Leader for Silent Storm and Silent Storm: Sentinels. The main focus of the interview is the RPG part of the original Silent Storm, including its characters and their development. If you know everything about Silent Storm, but have never really gave a thought to its RPG part – click here.

"Silent Storm tackles the world of turn-based strategy with RPG elements and does a solid job” – says Michael Lafferty in his review on Silent Storm for GameZone. He concludes that it “would be a great title for someone who has never entered this genre before, and it will provide a solid challenge to the veteran war gamer” and rates Silent Storm with 8 out of 10. Read the full review.

"...There are few games that are so spectacular," – says Cei Silverflame from Edbis.com in his preview of Silent Storm. "This is a game that should end up on the shelf of every strategy fan" – he concludes.

Although Silent Storm has not been released in the USA yet, still it has taken the second place in GameSpot.com's “10 most popular PC games”, leaving behind such titles as Call of Duty and Half-Life 2 (also not yet released). Check out the full list of GameSpot most popular games here.

In a new preview of Silent Storm from IGN.com Steve Butts explains why Silent Storm serves to continue the legacy of TBS, the genre that "has provided us with lots of chances to improve our strategic thinking". Read the preview.

GameSpy.com has posted a fresh preview on Silent Storm, where Allen "Delsyn" Rausch talks about the game's "realistic, squad-level combat tactics" and its "true 3D, fully-interactive game world". "Take that, soulless blockbusters!" - that's what he says at the end of the preview.