So, I've just finished the game and I really have to say, as a lot of others already did: The Gameplay is easily frustratig. Then Handling of the Guns is a bit weird although you get used to it in the end. You can't move while aiming (you can only lean) and also don't have ironsights but it zooms in a bit. What I liked about the game was the tactical aspect. You really could finish every mission without having to use cheats by thinking about where to get cover, when to shoot, how to walk..... You die quite fast if you don't think this way, it's not a run-and-gun game at all. Still health often isn't a great issue as you can replenish it by looting corpses of dead enemies that mostly have medipacks or drinkbottles with them, I often could recover from next to no Health to full health in Normal Difficutly this way. It's a matter of luck though as you have to hope for a medipack in this case and not just bottles. Jungle Warfare naturally comes with a lot of foliage, trees, bushes and so on. But it's annoying if enemies can somehow see through it while you can't do that yourself. Gladly, there aren't a lot of these passages in the game but those passages really are frustrating. Adding that in some locations, unless you reach a certain point, there's a constant flow of enemy soldiers that really makes the game unnecessarily hard and as well frustrating. Adding once again that your teammates are quite braindead. Don't expect much help from them, they miss about every shot, they're just following you around, about everything needs to be done by yourself. Sometimes enemies and teammates stand in front of each other, just centimeters away, and they just don't shoot. But as soon as you come around, you get gunned down by the enemy. "^^ Also the Checkpointsystem is horrible as sometimes there's a long distance in between them where a lot of stuff can happen. A quicksave-system would have been a good idea. It's by far not as good as MoH but it's alright as a Shooter. :)
I played this game first on a machine in a bar some years ago already. I never finished it because I wasn't that good in it, I did spent quite some time with it tough (didn't end up poor gladly ^^). This game isn't too easy but it's a lot of fun. The details are very nicely done and placed, the developers really spent a lot of time on that one. It's a very fun and entertaining game and can be played in a quick brake. The online multiplayer sounds interesting as well although I haven't tried it out so far. But it surely will be even a bit more fun that way. Or you can invite a friend over to play it on the same computer. I can only say: I don't regret having kept that game in my mind for so many years and that GoG has it now is awesome. Graphics don't really matter here, it's the fun that counts. ^^
