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War Rock


6.2

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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.

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

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 6.2 (out of 10) based on 40 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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.

Mr. Seagull gave it a2:
I thought this game was a tactical shooter. Me and a friend played this after playing CS:S for a couple of months. I suddenly started to see the difference between the two games. This didn't feel tactical at all, in fact, it felt a complete mess. The server lag is incredible, it's almost hard to play the game at all. On one occasion I ran straight past the enemy shooting them, but they couldn't see me and they wouldn't die. So I'd carry on running and suddenly I'd be dead. Then, all of a sudden, 20 seconds later, 2 of them would be dead with me getting the kills. This lag also accounts to many of the deaths and therefore fun being lost in this game. Grenades are, for some reason, sometimes invisible, meaning you can't move out of the way them. These grenades, even if they are quite a way away from you can kill you in a hit which gets quite annoying. This game also allows you to go prone, which is good in some circumstances but it does tend to slow the action down with people using it to spawn camp. I also found that when ever in a direct 1 on 1 battle, as people tend to spray their guns where ever they are, people just automatically go prone and before you know it you're shooting at thin air with the enemy on the floor shooting right next to you. Pretty realistic, I think you'll agree :) The rolling feature is also used a lot in this game. This is because when in a straight 1 on 1 you can sprint and roll into cover, or just roll to the side of the enemy and shoot them, which is incredibly unrealistic and what most War Rock players tend to do. There are many other little things such as the leasing of the guns, the sound, when you hit an enemy can be heard from anywhere in the battlefield, so you can hear whether you've hit your enemy where ever you are. When on the bomb planting team, any one of the players on the team could plant the bomb, which is a far worse than the one on Counter Strike, which is far more tactical. The game modes, are in fact quite promising. Battle Group would be pretty fun, if it wasn't completely unplayable when there is more than 4 players. These and many other of these little things lead to the eventual downfall of this game. After playing this game on and off for about 2 weeks, I just couldn't help think it was a failed version of a mix between Counter Strike and Battlefield 2, which are far superior.

Steele X gave it a2:
When this game just came out, it was actually pretty good and I played it very often. Now when I play it again with the new updates. I only see 2 types of soldiers in the server; anti-tank and scout. All infantries will be sniped by snipers and all vehicles will be knocked out by anti-tanks. Assault - no reason to use this since assault is used to kill other infantries, and scouts can kill assaults from miles away without them knowing what hit them. Medic - unlike BF2 where you earn points when you heal somebody, here nobody would even care about other people, since healing them wouldnt do anything for them. Engineer - just like medics, nobody would bother to help their teammates. Also mines are never as efficient as rocket launchers since the mines looks too different than the terrain even for a blind person to step on. So only with the AT and scouts, normally in a game of warrock, all you'll see is trucks and tanks driving all over the place and scouts hiding everywhere in the map. Sometimes even tanks would camp outside a base and nading everything they see that just spawned since it's almost impossible to hit a tank with a rocket launcher from a long distance. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this game unless you don't like playing with vehicles and only play small maps. But of course, if you really want to play that, CS, day of defeat, and many other games are way better choices than this.