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War Rock


6.3

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War Rock is an online, military, tactical, first-person-shooter featuring state of the art weapons, team or solo based play and unbelievable missions and maps. With five different character classes to master, gamers can play individually or in a team. Players can participate in three modes of gameplay including Close Quarters Combat, Urban Ops and Battlegroup. [K2 Network]

PUBLISHER:	K2 Network
DEVELOPER:	Dream Execution
GENRE(S):	Shooter
PLAYERS:	Thousands
ESRB RATING:	T (Teen)
RELEASE DATE:	February 7, 2007

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Worth Playing

If you enjoy playing "Battlefield 2" and would like to experience a more frequently changing and updated gaming experience, War Rock is definitely worth trying.

Computer Games Online RO

War Rock is not a special title, but it is a quite interesting alternative to people who’ve had enough of Counter Strike and Battlefield, though the attempt to combine them is not all that new.

PC Format

Likely to remain a bog-basic, reassuringly free shooter that you might just pick up and play in an idle moment on your laptop. Very, very occasionally, in other words. [Apr 2007, p.72]

GameZone

With so many military FPS types available I just have a hard time recommending this title simply because you have to pay a monthly fee to enjoy benefits that in some cases are still not available.

IGN

It's an ugly game, its sound effects get annoying very quickly, and the shooting mechanics aren't very sophisticated. It's free, however, but that's about the best thing that can be said about it.

GameSpot

War Rock is a mediocre online first-person shooter that feels more like an economic experiment than an actual retail product.

Game Chronicles

As a free, unlimited, online shooter, War Rock fits the bill quite well, however the more money you put into it, the more you will begin to see its flaws.

Gamer 2.0

In the year 2007, subscribers shouldn’t have to worry about sever stability and debilitating amounts of lag, nor should they have to suffer through a substandard interface or bargain-bin audio.

PC Gamer

A free massively multiplayer tactical first-person shooter in the vein of "Counter-Strike" and the "Battlefield" games? Sounds too good to be true! And, guess what? It is! [June 2007, p.66]

Games Radar (in-house)

The biggest problem here is the dated feel of it all.

PC Gamer UK

A decent enough online shooter. If you really need another one. [Apr 2007, p.89]

GameShark

It's not that War Rock doesn't have a good idea for gameplay direction, as the persistent ranking and economy is an idea that the genre has yet to fully explore. At the same time this direction has no momentum behind it and sometimes seems haphazard at best in its implementation.

PC Zone UK

Paying money for something like this shameless and undercooked feels like shaking the hand of the guy who's shagging your wife. [May 2007, p.76]

Eurogamer

The nagging question is why on earth should a second-rate FPS game that's so indebted to its peers - and one of which, in the case of BF2, does a persistent character thing for free - think it can get away with demanding a subscription fee for any of its content? Answer: It really can't.

The average user rating for this game is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 42 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jesse O gave it a9:
Even though War Rock is laggy (as is ANY peer-to-peer game) and has its fair share (or more) of hackers, its a good game. The graphics are bad? Ehm, they aren't exactly shite if you play on high w/ some of the FX on and a decent reso for your monitor. The sound you were referring to was probably when it was so farked... That has been fixed. It isn't the best but I don't see what the problem is now. War Rock, on a competitive level, is a GREAT game. Too bad there's only one "real" league that hosts it (ESL) and they don't allow US players on ESL.eu, but then they fail to promote ESL-America. I wouldn't mind pumping money into a league that supported the US and also promoted itself to anywhere but the EU. Sorry, got on a rant there.

WRVet gave it a2:
I've been a player since the beginning of its beta stages.. and to be honest the game is atrocious. One part that all of these reviews missed was the hackers... and although the latest update has prevented most hacks, banned users (who may have been banned for no reason) created VIP hacksites specially devoted to hack the game.. now that is rediculous.. you know a game sucks when there are numerous sites that are being funded specifically to ruin the game. The sounds are meteocre; in fact, i replaced my sounds with my own voiceovers just to make it sound better. The stock set of sounds are just plain funny; it makes you wonder how they even made the sounds. The hacker reporting system is a good idea, however it only works when people genuinely report hackers and unfortunately, there are pre-pubescent (or they act like them anyway) 'kids' that report people for having a good score. Bottom line, gameplay is frustrating and the idea that one has to pay for an advantage over another is just stupid. Sure, itl keep you entertained for a little while, but when you find out that itl take your whole life to get to the level where you can unlock 'the good weapons', ull just want to literally say 'farg' this. Thankfully, the game censoring has changed the censors to asterisks (*). It perhaps was the worst part of the game and would anger people even more when they saw what they typed; in fact many would dodge the censors successfully just by adding in a bracket or two in the middle of the word, thus, proving that their attempt to censor words was compeltely useless. Getting back to the levels; supposedly when you reach level 100, everything is unlocked and you play for free; its too bad you will never reach it in your lifetime, and thats no exageration. Leveling up in the game isnt worth it, for you get a meager 2500 dinar per level. As you level up, it takes longer to reach the next level, but the amount of dinar you recieve for it never increases. Also, the ERSB rating shouldn't even be valid for this game because its always online and almost never is played as it should (with the ineffective filters and whatnot). From its start to now (almost 5 years), the game suffers from horrible server lag and a horrible in-game team collaboration effort, (rarely will you find teamates who are willing to help/support) not to mention a completely irrelevant story. On alberon, if you are part of the green team, the breifing says to find a crate marked GG - problem is, there is no crate marked GG, that is if you can even make it down to the derb side. In addition, instead of restricting certain weapons on maps, they remove vital components to the game. To eliminate usage of the barrett in close quarters, they removed prone from the game, as if to say people cannot go prone when in a close quarters battle. It is a horrible, half-ass decision on their part because they could have restricted its use another way. In addition, posting against their decision to do this on their official forums gets you banned. Not a good way to treat paying customers at all. The only good thing about this game, is perhaps the map design. It seems that the maps were thought out well and there are plenty of cover spots. The texture qualities however, ruin the map effect and make the game look like it was made for a commodore 64. (ok maybe not that bad... but lets say psp) The game is bugged with glitches and cheats and provides a player with an overall frustrating experience. If you're looking for real gameplay, stick to battlefield, CS (which i dont like much either), or consider transitioning to COD4. One review stated you get what you pay for, but in fact, you do not. You get less, much much less than what you pay for. The game is not fun unless you have gold premium, which is 15 a month. The worst part about their purchasing system is that you can only puchase twice in a given period - so you have to buy premium once and g1 credits and then wait like 3 weeks before you can purchase again. The fact they they make weapons available on the online store that are not available in game really kill the gamer experience as well. They also offer promo codes for unreleased weapons to premium auto-renewal customers.(it automatically charges your card every month) The unreleased weapons arent bugged or anything, they just do it to give people even a more unfair advantage. Don't even get me started with the stupid weapon leasing system. The initial concept wasnt a bad idea; to lease them, but when they tied it with real-world money, it crossed the 'fun-line'. It really takes away from the experience, if there even is one. Addicts will pay more than the premium fee just to have their advantageous weapons. In addition, weapon stats will noticably drop when a new weapon is released so as to make the new weapon seem as if it is amazing. In addition, there are certain maps such as cantumira where the helicopters will drive you crazy. Some amazing pilots can dodge anything, and there truly is no defense against them. Sure every now and then someone will snipe them out with a barrett, but its very rare that people even have one, considering one has to pay online with real money to get it. The stingers are ineffective against a good pilot and its rediculously annoying when you can't even spawn without the helicopter raiding it. Experiences like these put this game down into the sewers. This game is entirely an economic scam - There are hackers that advertise hacksites and publicly (in-game chat) claim that hacking the game is more fun that playing the game itself. As a sidenote, you even have to pay just to change your crosshair! That is a standard feature in any game, but not in War Rock. I could write a novel on how bad this game truly is (if i haven't already), but I think you get the idea. In short, it is a quick-high economic scam that will rob your wallet of all of its money and give you half-ass fps quality, gameplay, absolutely no satisfaction, and no sense of progress; ironically, it costs much more than any other fps, and the game isn't even fully developed yet. They need to finish making the game before it is released commercially, or leave it permanently in beta stage because it will never be comparable to a real FPS. If you want a game where you're bound to get angry from unfair gameplay, horrible lag, for the most part an unfriendly community, possible random banning from punkbuster, and horrible customer support, play it; otherwise, leave this one in the bottom of the dumpster where it belongs.

Random gave it a9:
I think this game is awesome, however due to the lag issues, the servers not working sometimes, and punkbuster kicking you off, i would have to say that its not the most reliable source for entertainment. Yet im still giving it a good rating because its free to play and when it does work its really fun, I'd definitely give it a try at least.

Teh ABC's gave it a10:
OBVIOUSLY, you have not played the game lately--> 2008 it has really gotten better, if you really think this game isn't any good, try it now.

George A. gave it a7:
the game used to suck with major server lag and hackers on every server but since punkbuster started to actually care about the security and people started to report hackers this game has owned. but as always the weapons are still very unrealistic: the famas is better then the stinger, a rocketlauncher cant kill a human while AW/M can, you need to shoot several rockets to blow up a chopper and so on. but the teamwork has been improver A LOT! ppl are caring about eachother, the medics are starting to heal ppl (they just do it for points) and well, engineers are not used by anybody. i recomend this game to start with but Counter strike is better and worse in some cases, bomb defusion is more realistic in war rock since you see your def kit and NOT your weapon. Weapons, Counterstrike owns war rock on that area, everybody knows why, graphix, WAR ROCK takes CS1.6 and CS CZ but do not manage to take on CS:´S, they dont have a powerful engine like that. but this game is very good to play. (its free to)

Kiwi Fruit gave it a9:
I played warrock for the past 6 months and I really liked it..so I got a bit bored so I started to play battlefield 2 just a demo like it bought it for 15 quid my god it lagged so bad I started to come back to warrock....ahh bilss

K L. gave it a0:
Really sad. They tried to combine battlefield 2 and counter-strike. Both good games, so that makes you wonder? What could have gone so horribly wrong as to make a combo of 2 of the best games, and result in one of the worst? Almost brings me to tears.