"Another MW2 Wannabe"
Story: Let me try to comprehend the 4hr story that took place. It starts with you thrown in mid-occupation of North Korea invading the U.S.A. You are an unvoiced character apart of a freedom fighter group. That is trying to take back America. You journey throughout the country dismantling the opposing force one mission at a time. As you go through it you see how torturous the North Koreans were to the American civilians who didn’t fall in line. As you go through the story, you think to yourself how is all of this death and destruction benefiting the people you are trying to save. And then after a grand finale the story ends on a cliffhanger.
Gameplay: If you played any early Call of Duty, then you’ve played this game. And controls like it too. Run, shoot, run with the occasional vehicle controlled segments as you progress through a mission based FPS campaign. You’re provided the traditional set of military weapons to take out endless of the same enemies and vehicles. Some missions have a few mini items of no combat. In order to give you a break of the same thing and to throw some story beats in.
Online: First off, the game severs are basically dead. Surprised me that they are even online to begin with. Once in a while you’ll see a single populated server. But that’s it. Playing online on the Steam Deck is difficult because you can’t really compete against the few players left who are assumed to have a ton of hours with mouse and keyboard. To sum up the experience of online. It is basically a mash up of COD and Battlefield. With American based maps.
Graphics: The draw graphically in this game is the backdrop of fighting in the U.S.A. And at some points there are highlights of decent texture work for a game coming out in 2011. Besides that there is nothing graphically to write home about. An overall generic visual presentation.
Audio: The audio similar to the graphics is for the most part generic. With decent voice acting. But at the same time not COD level with the sound affects and voice acting. Average overall.
Performance/Bugs: Experienced many stutters through the same on the Steam Deck. But that was most likely due to different parts of the level loading and it being and old game. I was able to get a constant 60FPS experience throughout the game besides that. There was also a lot of texture clipping throughout the game. And animation bugs. The thing that annoyed me the most is that when using a game pad was enabled in settings. Control prompts on screen didn’t correlate with buttons on the controller.

Reviewed on May 30, 2023


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