Really disappointed. It's overrated for sure!! can't complain about that! i've played so many WWII games in the last couple of years and this one is just "mediocre". The graphics are poor but i think that the engine has his limitations. Poor gameplay, always the same situation again and again!! Even if CoD is more arcade, i think it's better. For me the best tactical WWII Shooter is H&DII and his addon even with it's own problems.… Expand

Big Disappointment. As realisitic as a chocolate kettle.

I agree that this is an overrated game. Tried this game because of the high Metascore. Poor graphics. Just based on flanking tactics, and gets pretty monotonous and annoying sometimes. Not to mention that pressing F5 gets you to change cameras but not told in the documentation on how to revert to first-person mode.

I've never played a game that got such good industry reviews and failed to come even close to those reviews. I keep thinking I must have played a different game. I just don't get - this game is not fun. It is incredibly repetitive. Every mission - find the enemy, supress the enemy, flank the enemy, kill the enemy. And it's not like you can really choose how you are going to do the above; there is usually only one or two paths to flank.… Expand

I had such hopes that this would be a good game, but instead, it was a bad minigame drawn out to cover the plot. The mechanics of the minigame are simple: see the Germans, shot in the general direction of the Germans, tell your squad to stop taking cover from the wrong direction and shoot at the Germans, walk over to the Germans, shoot the Germans. The friendly AI is so useless that despite the levels constant attempts to railroad you into using this tactic, I found it more effective to order my squad to sit in the corner while I single-handedly slaughtered the Germans. The weapons behave as an experienced shooter would expect them too, in the hands of untrained game developers. The German AI compensates for the flaws in the American AI, demonstrating a complete inability to use grenades effectively, cover their flanks or rear, or even utilize the old tactic from Wolf 3d and gang up on the poor Americans. On authentic difficulty, the weapons are still almost completely useless, requiring multiple head and chest hits to bring down a German. Fortunately, the Germans have the same problem, allowing you to simply charge enemy riflemen, emptying the clip of a Thompson into them, and ignoring the hits you take in the process. Perhaps most disappointing was the fact that for all their efforts and attention to detail in historical accuracy, the levels were essentially long clear tunnels. If pinned down by a German machine gun in the street, it might seem reasonable to jump the fence beside the road and take cover in the ditch, move forward and flank, right? Wrong. The fence should be easily cleared, but it is in actuality the base of an invisible wall. Such invisible walls abound, in order to ensure that the path chosen by the game designers is the path the player follows. All in all, this feels less like playing a game, and more like playing a role in a movie, only instead of a script, you simply have a director yelling at you whenever you do anything that isn't what he wants.… Expand

Is it worth playing you ask? Well, if your ambition is to play EVERY WW2 game around, then maybe yes. The graphics are poor. The animations are poor. The AI is poor. It's a poor game. Is it super-awful? No. No game-breaking bugs either. It's just that the fun factor ranks up to the tune of "ever so slightly" fun. Replay MOHAA if you can instead. Give this one a pass, because if you really enjoy it, you must be brain dead. 5/10.… Expand

This game is one of the worst ww2 games I ever seen. The graphics is not good (see another games from 2005 for eg. COD2 to comparison) but it's not bad. The story is not bad, but a little boring. The fighting is not so good in the game. Usually, you have to shoot 5-10 bullets into your enemy's body to kill him. It's ridiculous. Your teammate's AI is poor. They running like chickens in the garden. When someone is killed in your fireteam it's a big problem you think. But it's not! He will be there in the next mission. How? What is it? Brothers in Arms: Return to Castle Wolfenstein? Another bad point is the fighting against armour. Your Stuart can easily destroy a Stug III. But the Stug can't even hit your tank. Yes, a 37 mm tank gun can easily penetrate a 50 mm armour, but when the Stug's 75 mm tank gun fires and hits the Stuart, it's 50 mm armour is still up. Is this realism for you? I don't think so. And the "flanking". The game says in the start to flank your enemy every time you can. But how can I flank the enemy when the maps are not enough wide for it. There is not enough space to flank (except one or two times). If you want realism, good AI, good story, good gameplay or good graphics, then don't try it! Otherwise it's your game.… Expand

Sucked! Repetitive tactics get boring very quickly. If you're a drone, you'll like this game; if you're a human, stay away. I bought this game based on good critics' reviews. Something want terribly wrong here. Were all the critics on drugs, payed off, or just didn't bother playing through more than just a handful of missions. You can't judge a whole game solely based on a first few levels. Critics, play the whole game before providing your two cents worth. This game, although appearing good at the beginning, quickly becomes worthless as you play on. I think that this game will go down in history as the most overrated game ever. At least the users, not the critics, gave it a more fair review, although still a little hight.… Expand

This game is awful. Repetitive, boring, ridiculous load times, and horrible hit detection. Bad for the time, and equally bad now.

This game blows. Absolutely horrible game. MAYBE for 9.99 or something. The graphics are pathetic, the gameplay is boring, the colision detection system is unbelievably bad (ie: you can shoot someone and it doesn't recognize the hit because it obviously doesn't use a per pixel detection system like say UT2004) and all in all the game is very boring. I wouldn't recomend this to anyoine if it's priced over 10 or 15 bucks. go get COD and COD: UO and you'll be MUCH MUCH happier!… Expand