Complete garbage, making characters is fun but the game is junk. By the time you get to the later missions where you can face 4 or more tanks and 30 guys with your 4 man squad you will just quit and delete this worthless game. If you don't cheat and have your squad go outside and equip everyone with a Mk-19, M2HB and a Tow II by putting it on the ground and having them pick it up, you will lose. It it so stupid, enemies can make shots from huge distances and your guys sit there unable to hit anything, then suddenly everyone on the enemy team has higher initiative then your whole 6 init team and magically makes shots with rifles outside extreme range on heads and other vital spots. This game is impossible, stupid, unrealistic, broken, buggy, the list could go on forever. Oh and if you get stuck just reload a few times and you can get any mission you want, THIS GAME IS RIDICULOUS. I do not know how it could get "Top Dog" or foreshadow jagged alliance, the only thing this game foreshadows is my recycle bin.

Horrible when I had it new, horrible now. If you like expending 60-70 clips and hundreds of 30mm and 40mm grenades to kill 13 or so people, this might be the game for you. It is fun up until you start encountering huge hoards of enemies, which wouldn't be a problem if a soldier with massive rifle skills could hit things better than none at all, but they can't. Then when your generating a character initiative seems to be completely randomly determined so you could have 2 identical characters with a 6 and 1 initiative. So after you have recreated your soldiers 500 times to get them right and finally start playing the game you dump it after realizing that it is not even fun to play. If someone could explain to me why a veteran marine sniper can't even hit a shot reliably from 100m away with a 50+ rifle stat using a PSG-1 maybe I could play it. Your only option if you MUST play this game is to save every time, before you go somewhere and if anything happens reload because it is mostly random.

Twilight 2000 is based on the pen and paper RPG of the same name from Games Designer Workshop.

You get to create your own set of 20 characters from a vast array of backgrounds and military/civilian carriers from all over the world. Although this can be a long and tedious process as you end up redoing the characters over and over again to get what you want. There is a set of ready made characters. But, unlike MegaTraveller 1-2, you cannot improve physical or mental stats as a character ages, as you only control skill allocation points.

Game balance is an issue though, as some characters can seemingly wield big guns like the Browning .50 Heavy Machine Gun or belt-fed grenade launchers with ease (although this is handy when you run into 20+ enemies in later missions).

But it is an enjoyable game, and a good ancestor to the Jagged Alliance series.