This all sounds great until you start playing and realize that most of your teammates are not going to play as a team, much less communicate. Each flag is defended by a couple of non-player controlled Obelisks or something to make it more imperative to use team tactics to win. This game was the most interesting for me because it involved a little strategy. Capture the flag involves a couple of teams (one of which you are on) of course, you need to capture the enemy’s flag to win. Free-for-all is fun for about 10 minutes until you just get bored of pointing and clicking, because there is no goal other than just survival and killing for points. There are a few different types of games you can participate in, like the free-for-all (no explaining needed here), or capture the flag (my personal favorite), or football. Just point and click at an enemy and the damage dealing is done just as in C&C. Once you are sufficiently powered up, it’s time to get in some killing. Don’t worry, these "power-ups" and such re-appear very quickly, so you will have little problem getting up to speed with a bit of luck. Failure to do so will result in a quick death … time and time again. What you need to do is run around for a few minutes and pick up a multitude of goodies to strengthen your armor, guns, speed and other important necessities before engaging others in combat. Any time you enter a new game (unless you are the first one there), you become the target of every conceivable enemy in the game because you are weak. When you enter a game and select your unit, you are very vulnerable because you haven’t gained any power-ups or the like to improve your unit … which brings me to my next point of frustration.
Come on … if I wanted Jurassic Park, I would have bought that game it kind of ruins the warlike atmosphere when my mammoth tank gets overrun by a Tyrannosaurus Rex on steroids. I did not really care for the few "extra surprises" I mentioned above, as they were things like dinosaurs. You can choose from virtually any unit from the original C&C, or choose from a couple of extra surprises however, you can’t choose a building, turret or any other stationary object (why would you want to, anyway?). Some of these players will be on your team, while others will be your enemies. Unlike C&C, where you act as God over your entire base and army, Sole Survivor allows you to take control of one unit of your choice on a battlefield consisting of many other human players, all of whom also control a single unit.