I actually prefer Vic to Cassidy as Cassidy has a tendency to charge stuff that shouldn't be charged by an old man (I'm talking about him in Powered Armour) while my guy is standing there with a machine-gun ready to do some mayhem. By the end of the game Vic has actually 12 AP to Cassidy's 10...
To the previous poster, you make a good point with your point about kinetic energy, yet in Starcraft they had the realistic foam-solution. And unlike most people I think you still can do cartwheels like in this Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyCq9GLVZ2Q and such so agility...
I'm glad for the last update, it runs the game all smooth and nice. it crashed a bit with the edition before that. Awesome product. The game I use is the GOG-version.
The crash happened when I entered Broken Hills carrying a combat shotgun and driving the upgraded car.