Iron Storm

You get the impression that, if this game came out five years later than it did, it would have been a masterpiece. The attention to detail and the ambition is there, but the tech and technique hadn't caught up yet, leaving the atmosphere and execution muddled. You can feel the core of a wonderful game just under the surface, but constrained quite simply by the fact that narrative shooters like this were in their infancy at the time.

I bought this game years back, a lot of entertainment for not a lot of money, and I think I paid $20.00 for it back then. If I can't find my cd of this oldie, I will probably buy it again here.

I'll start with something positive. The idea of ww1 not ending interested me it reminded of of an old movie called "Things To Come". That was the last good thing. This game was so hard even on easy and cheating that it took away any fun that might have been had. Get used to using quick save and quick load a lot as in a lot of places your die 3 or 4 times just finding where that sniper is. The snipers seem to be able to instant kill and as for the super rapid fire rocket launchers some of the enemy have I have to wonder what the game designers were thinking. If you manage to make it past all that in level 3 they give you a surprise Tanks to kill (oh joy). It was after finally killing the 1st tank and finding the 2nd I finally decided this isn't fun and let the game become a bad memory. My review title should have been the game title as that's what it caused for me.

I really wanted to like this game, because the concept is awesome. Sadly, in my opinion, it has very few qualities. The gameplay is decent and the guns are pretty cool, but that's about it. Visually it's very boring and uninspired, the levels feel extremely empty. I noticed that some people think that it has a good atmosphere, but I wasn't feeling it at all. The game looks much, much older than it is. It's hard to think that this was released only two years before Half-Life 2. Nope, I can't recommend this game at all.

Mostly sucks. A Hidden turd, not gem.