Posted July 22, 2009
Imagine this:
"You are a paratrooper on the American Side of WW2. You watch as most of your squad is shot down by enemy German anti-air guns. You are armed only with a knife and a few matches. Luckily one of your surviving squad members landed in the same forest as you a few yards away who managed to scavenge a a Thompson Machine Gun from a nearby paratrooper corpse. As Germans search the area you are in you hide in a bush and throw a knife into an enemy unit, causing him to fall on his knees as blood gushes out of his mouth. You pick up his Mauzer and hide again. After you regroup with your other squad member, you both exchange a few matches and head to the nearby grain field. One of you sets the bottom part of the field on fire and the other picks off the remaining Germans that aren't turned into burnt corpses. A moment later a truck with a mounted machine gun and 5 more troops comes into the area. What do you do!?"
This game is full of these moments. What makes this game unique is the amazing gameplay, visuals, physics, and destructibility. You can literally steal an enemy transport, run it through a nearby wall and unload your troops into an empty, well fortified trench near bye. You can loot the field for weapons, ammo, whatever and use it to your advantage. Lets say you have a Molotov. DO you throw it into a house or the extremely close bye tank that may blow up and land on the house, crushing everyone in it? The games AI is well programmed. Enemies will look for cover, find choke points, and even turn your own cover against you as it comes collapsing down on you. This game is almost flawless.
The cons to having direct control of an individual unit/vehicle, destructible buildings and environment fauna, and big maps is the unforgiving difficulty. This is by no means a casual friendly game. I have some problems even though I am quite the strategist. I had to at one point take a pic of the map, and decide my route in the area. Heck, you only get maybe 6 men at the most! So by all means, if you think you can own this game, go ahead. But don't day I didn't warn you.
Have fun!
"You are a paratrooper on the American Side of WW2. You watch as most of your squad is shot down by enemy German anti-air guns. You are armed only with a knife and a few matches. Luckily one of your surviving squad members landed in the same forest as you a few yards away who managed to scavenge a a Thompson Machine Gun from a nearby paratrooper corpse. As Germans search the area you are in you hide in a bush and throw a knife into an enemy unit, causing him to fall on his knees as blood gushes out of his mouth. You pick up his Mauzer and hide again. After you regroup with your other squad member, you both exchange a few matches and head to the nearby grain field. One of you sets the bottom part of the field on fire and the other picks off the remaining Germans that aren't turned into burnt corpses. A moment later a truck with a mounted machine gun and 5 more troops comes into the area. What do you do!?"
This game is full of these moments. What makes this game unique is the amazing gameplay, visuals, physics, and destructibility. You can literally steal an enemy transport, run it through a nearby wall and unload your troops into an empty, well fortified trench near bye. You can loot the field for weapons, ammo, whatever and use it to your advantage. Lets say you have a Molotov. DO you throw it into a house or the extremely close bye tank that may blow up and land on the house, crushing everyone in it? The games AI is well programmed. Enemies will look for cover, find choke points, and even turn your own cover against you as it comes collapsing down on you. This game is almost flawless.
The cons to having direct control of an individual unit/vehicle, destructible buildings and environment fauna, and big maps is the unforgiving difficulty. This is by no means a casual friendly game. I have some problems even though I am quite the strategist. I had to at one point take a pic of the map, and decide my route in the area. Heck, you only get maybe 6 men at the most! So by all means, if you think you can own this game, go ahead. But don't day I didn't warn you.
Have fun!