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1992 · Krisalis Software · Role-playing · Strategy

Sabre Team

A Sabre Team is a squad of four elite soldiers charged with some of the toughest hostage-rescue, building-storming and the like that Western forces have ever attempted. In this turn-based strategic simulation you must choose a team of four of these from the 8 available, and take them to victory in five increasingly tough missions. Even before you get into the main gameplay, there is a lot of strategy involved in choosing weaponry, as they make different amounts of noise when used (reducing the stealth potential) and their ammunition is of varying weight.

Released: 1992
Platforms: Amiga Amiga CD32 Atari ST MS-DOS Windows
Genres: Role-playing Strategy Tactical Turn-based strategy Turn-based tactics
Developers: Krisalis Software
Publishers: Krisalis Software
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Warfare
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (Spain)

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Sabre Team is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by Krisalis Software. It was released for Amiga and Atari ST in 1992, then MS-DOS and Amiga CD32 in 1994.

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Gameplay

The player commands a team of four Special Air Service operatives, and spends Action Points to make their moves. In each of five scenarios, the player chooses four of their eight team members to bring on the mission. Each mission involves the team saving all the hostages and killing all of the terrorists.

Story

The player leads an elite specialist strike team that defeats terrorists by rescuing their hostage and prisoners of war, and stopping their war machines. The terrorists are keeping five British soldiers as hostages.

Reception

James V. Trunzo reviewed Sabre Team in White Wolf Inphobia #52 (Feb., 1995), rating it a 2 out of 5 and stated that "As with several games today, Sabre Team is a good idea (though not a very original one) that's poorly implemented. I keep trying out of a sense of fairness - maybe I am just a lousy player - but I think the game is flawed. It's overprices and too difficult. In spite of attractive graphics and some decent interface elements, the cons of Sabre Team overwhelm the pros."

Simon Byron for The One #50 said that "Sabre Team is one of the most engrossing action strategy games around".