WWII Online: Blitzkrieg

THE BAD:
nerfed 109

SUMMARY:
Recently CRS has dipped their fingers into the sewers of game ballance, and severely nerfed the only german fighter in the game, THE 109.

Its firepower was reduced by about 90%, yes im serious. And since there are so many planes in the game (planes have more of an effect in this game then the USAF had in the Gulf War), it has seriously swung game ballance into the allied favor. And its been like this for about 3 months now.

This was the 3rd NERFAGE in 6-9 months the german planes have undergone, while allied planes get nothing but improvements to rate of fire, turning capabilities, armor and miscellaneous.

Its either for game ballance or CRS is full of a bunch of incompetant programmers.

THE BAD:
.Graphics suck, horrbie sound, speed,music. There is only like one huge mission avabable. The company plans to stop making all maps and , just stick with the France map. Thats right NO MORE MAPS WHAT A RIPE. The company only sold about 350,000 copies which is very very small in todays PC economy. If the grapichs WERE better, and the sound inproved then ,maybe i would give it a 6 out of 9. And one last thing, the messages take like an our to show up even though i have a 900mhz computer. The A.I in this game ARE THE WORST I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED

SUMMARY:
DO not, REPEAT DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. IT costs 30.00 plus 10.00 bucks a month to support online play that 120.00 dollars a year!!!

GO buy: MAx payne, Red Faction, 007: agent under fire or others but please stay away from this low-life game which is s discruss to the PC world!

THE BAD:
Appearantly some folks are having more problems than others. Some people seem to have no problems at all. Some of the bugs mentioned in the review have now been fixed with the new patch 7/25/01. Can't wait for all the little kids playing the game right now to have to go back to school soon. They gripe, are profane, play bad jokes and confuse many with their antics!

SUMMARY:
You much learn to work together to win. Some folks are clearly better, more organized and lead better than others. The dynamics to this game are too much to mention here. Great, addictive fun that never ends. I have spent several night up unlit 4 or 5 in the morning attacking or defending towns.

THE BAD:
Steep system requirements, bugs and glitches.

SUMMARY:
I'll state right now that I'm a WWII buff and have been for years, but this game has me completely hooked even with it's faults. I have been playing PC games for years but not one of them has made me want to do multi-player, this one has in spades! This game forces you into co-operative play and it really works. Halftracks and trucks tow anti-tank guns and carry infantry, planes give you ground support and dogfight in the skys overhead, tanks roll across the map but can't take over cities (only infantry can take over the town capture points). Infantry can hitch a ride on tanks though. You begin to care about what happens to the other players, you want to help them, to win it has to be that way, no one can do it alone.
There are play issues. When you run out of ammo you have to respawn, sometimes the capture points won't convert to your side, tanks will take an insane amount of damage. There are numerous clipping problems, the dreaded spinning spawn, driving/running underground, flying tanks, and others. Though there are problems the people at Playnet and Cornered Rat Software are busting their butts to solve problems and add features on a daily basis. World War II online is such a huge undertaking that it is and will be a work in progress. I believe that though the intial launch was a fiasco huge strides have been made and the game is VERY playable! I don't believe that the developers could have ever gotten to a point where the game could have been call complete, ready to ship. There is just to much content to be constantly added and the virtual battlefield constantly expanding to have and end point. There is so much that can and will be added you feel like your part of something bigger, you get to watch the metamorphosis of something not attempted before. The virtual battlefield does exist!
My recommendation is buy this game! If you like FPS, co-operative play, war games, and long hours at your monitor you will love this game! Just be patient it's only going to get better and better, then you will be able to say you were there at the beginning.

THE BAD:
Lot's of bugs. (TO be expected with such a large venture)

SUMMARY:
Bottom line: World War II online rocks!!!! It combines 3 of my favorite games into one. Flight sim, tank sim, and first person shooter. Each, not highly complex, but not just a morons game either. Have the option of jumping in and fighting or planning attacks into enemy towns and bases.

Also, although I would agree that $10 a month is a bit high, it is no rip off. It takes an extremely large set of resources to put a production like this on. And remember. They are a business. They are trying to make money!!!!!

If you don't like that, move to a communist country!!!

THE BAD:
Many bugs and online servers are down most of the time. Also a $10 subscription is a ripoff.

SUMMARY:
See ya on the front!