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Summary: I would give this game zero stars if I could
Review: The publishers flat-out [falsified] about the game having features that it does not, and they somehow managed to wrap that nothing up in the absolute WORST user interface. Your character is NOT persistent (no gaining rank), no command structure, no supply lines. There are no sea units (ships). There are basically 2 types of soldiers, 2 tanks, 2 trucks, 2 planes, and 2 anti-tank guns for each side. I consider myself a pretty hardcore gamer, and it still took me hours to figure out simple things like how to join the game and what city to start in so that I have something to attack. The documentation was either non-existant, confusing, or just plain wrong for even the simplest tasks. This game REQUIRES a joystick to play, and requires you to make changes to your windows virtual memory setting. The game takes 10 MINUTES to load (on my P3-800) initially, and about 2 minutes to join the first mission. Graphics are very cheezy. Sound is very buggy, many times I hear tanks firing around me when there are none. I played this game for about 2 weeks because I am a hardcore gamer, and I was able to tolerate it for a while, but it's not even persistent like they said. Gets boring after only a few weeks. People who have given this game a good rating either did NOT play the game, or they have not played some of the other FREE WW2 online games out there, like the Half-Life mod called Day of Defeat. People who do not have broadband internet access BEWARE - Out of the box there is a 67 meg patch file to download, and another patch file that is 1.5 megs.
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Summary: Dont Waist your time
Review: Tonight I went to [the store] to buy this game, despite all the negative feedback. This game looks to be a great game if you have the system to run it. I had heard that you needed a monthly subscription to even play this game. HOW can this company expect comsumers to buy a game for [$], pay a [$] monthly subscription fee WHEN THE GAME ISN'T EVEN FINISHED. I have never heard of such communism!!! I am not, I REPEAT, NOT going to pay for a game and then have to pay just to play it. My monthly electric bill is only $20. [$] seams just way to steep to play this game.. STAY CLEAR of this one if you want reoccuring fees!
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Summary: If you're a quaker go somewhere else
Review: This is not about fragging, this is a game for the mature gamer, it is for the player that don't play games for the eyecandy but for the pure gameplay. Imagine picking a mission and then jump on the truck at sunrise, close in on the front hearing the sounds of cannons and machineguns fill the air, see the burning tanks as you get to the battle, enter the town on foot your, while enemy tanks, planes and infantry try to stop you, take the town and get ready for the counterattack as the sun sets, you really feel that you are part of something huge. It is also nice to play a game where the development team cares. I would give WWIIOnline 5 stars, but there still are some problems, some people can't get the game to run and some features are still missing, but it is the first of the next generation online game and it is going to be though to beat. Personal glory is funded in teamwork.
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Summary: Groundbreaking game!
Review: It needs some work, but CRS has already accomplished much that the big companies havent. I really dont enjoy any of my other flight sims or FPS games anymore after playing it, they seem small and boring!
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Summary: WW2 gamer's dream. Rocky launch, but promising.
Review: Battles rage for hours on end, some times even days, for simple control of a city. They rage over night, with tracers zipping past your face on the ground, in the sky, in armour, in planes, and in your barracks. All with hundreds to thousands of real life players. Any World War II gamer with a brain should love this. Most of the less-than-quick reviewers out there will compare World War II Online to their favorite FPS (Counter-Strike or Day Of Defeat). The sensible ones out there would notice two things: This is massively multiplayer - thousands on a server. This is a simulation - not "Rambo meets your desktop". And of special note, you have planes, tanks, infantry, and soon to be ships, all in one place. If you're a WW2 gamer, then you're obviously in heaven. I play this game almost every day. I have 256 megs of ram, a mediocre GeForce 2 MX video card, and a 700 MHZ Duron. I do NOT have problems playing, aside from the server problems they are currently ironing out. From riding in the back of a truck and being strafed by a Spitfire (with 5 other human players with me), to engaging in over night defense of cities, tracers blazing, tanks exploding, planes going down in the sky - ALL IN ONE PLACE, I have to say...it's not what I expected it to be, but it's damn good enough. In a year, I see this as big as most of the massively multiplayer games out there. Asheron's Call, Everquest, etc.
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Summary: Looking for a new game? Well.....
Review: Click the back button on your browser and look elsewhere, absolutly by far the biggest waste of time and worse game ever to come into the market. Graphics? SNES is about equal, Gameplay...sweet god by far takes the cake as the worst ever. Sound? Oh yeah hearing your infantrys footsteps for an hour and a half, another high point of the game. Oh yeah, and we get the priveledge of paying 9.99 a month for it. (Which i have absolutly no problem doing, and have done for the last 3 years other games)Save your money, buy anything but this...
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Summary: A great game with a few flaws
Review: First lets set the scene. I was a infatry man for the allies and i quickly hopped on a 'bus' to take me to the front. there must of been 3 of these 'buses' and it looked like if we could make it to the front we could push them back. The the woods around us oppened up shots wizzed every where and smoke filled the air. All the people in the first transport died in the first 2 seconds and the second transport in the next minute. so it was just my bus getting shot at all around we where screaming for reinforcements and air support but a major battle was happening in the front. the driver tried to drive us away but he was killed and we quickly ran out in groupse for the forest. me and this other guy ran in the woods only gotting wounded. we where the only survivers of the ambush and quickly learned that those troops have been there for almost 2 days.
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Summary: A Game with a Future
Review: After receiving my game from Amazon, I intalled it according to instructions. From there I was not able to play until almost two weeks later. Customer support was behind because of the release of the game. Cornered Rat released this game before it was finished so there are a lot of features that are not yet incuded in the game. No ships yet, numerous weapons, etc. I was extremely frustrated with the lack of support. Once they fixed my problem which was the day before yesterday, I have played the game, and it is a blast. I think that this game will grow, and as it grows, so will it's popularity. It is fun, and the team work from other players is a pleasant surprise.
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Summary: Has potential, but is barely playable
Review: The concept is great. Unfortunately, the reality is that the game client is big, slow, buggy, unstable, and the graphics are poor. I could live with the poor graphics, in fact I was expecting them, but the playability just isn't there. It takes forever to load, uses ridiculous amounts of RAM, and once you get in the game it's hard to tell friend from foe. Also I wonder if anyone beta tested this game. It seems like there are some pretty basic bugs that could have been fixed prior to release. For instance, if the install path for the game has a space in the name (like Program Files) you can only play offline. The fix is to uninstall and reinstall to a different path. Also the game hangs on launching under Windows 2000 unless you rename a particular folder so that it doesn't try to play the intro movie. After 6 more months of patches this game might be worth the money.
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Summary: Hum.....
Review: I lost 10 Bucks right after WWII came out. Originally my friend and I were talking about this game even when it was still in development, my friend said that it's gonna [be a bad game] and I said no way....so we made a bet. NOw, even though he had won my money, both of us still respect WWII. It was perhaps only TOO AMBITIOUS! The idea was right...but the developers to eager to leap ahead, the project deadline too soon, and all of these facts contributed to a released "unfinished" joke...HOw is a 70mb patch supposedly help this game's rating in any way? Seriously, the last gaming company that had the nerve to ask me to download such a humongous patch were the makers of SIN, and even that the patch was HALF THE SIZE OF THIS and SIN was definitely a much smoother game than this. NOw I gave this what many considered as a "bugged" failure 3 stars cause I admire the bravery of Strategy First, I understand that they are actually putting A LOT of EFFORTS now to fix all the loopholes and bugs. I definitely thank this game, because it has started another 1st person/multiplayer gaming revolution after Half Life. Even admist all the outragious patch downloading, loading time, rigourous system requirements, WWII in summary is done almost the way we gamers were promised. It's just like an oversized version of B-17 Flying Fortress, a dream beyond current technological reality. For those who are new gamers thristy for World War 2 action I suggest you go download the D-Day Normandy MOd for Quake 2. The Mod is miniscule compare to the patch and Quake 2 wasn't the 1st Person Game Holy Grail before Half Life for no reason. Otherwise, if you are still craving for mass online destruction, play Tribes 2. I only hope that in the end...Planetside would turn out a different path than WWII, cause the screenshots look as promising as Blizkrieg before it was released..........
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