Some poet whose name I can't remember once wrote that the saddest words in the world are: "It might have been." No game in recent memory sums up those words better than Encore and Nival Interactive's S2 - Silent Storm. Silent Storm follows hard on the footsteps of squad-level turn-based strategy classics like X-Com and Jagged Alliance, and for a brief, shining moment, looked like it might join them in the pantheon of "strategy games that rule my world." Then I got deeper into the game and found instead an excellent title that reaches for the stars, but just barely makes it into the upper atmosphere.