Hammer & Sickle Preview

Gamecloud has put together a hands-on preview of Hammer & Sickle, based on a beta build of Nival Interactive's tactical RPG. An excerpt to follow:
The gameplay from Silent Storm has not changed much. You get a certain amount of "action points" that allow you to move your character and accomplish different tasks. Then your enemies get their turn to move at you. Eventually you get to control more than one character and those characters can increase their skills during the playing of the game.

Besides the impressive tactical-RPG gameplay, the best part of Hammer and Sickle remains the 3D graphics and the advanced physics engine. The game itself looks terrific with great looking character models and animations. Even better is the interactively that the game's physics engine provides.