Get your wii-remotes and your brains ready for this action packed sequel.
When i first played this game i did not know what to expect since i had no past experiences or anything. Well, i was impresed, the opening sequence is filled with top quality videos featuring great voice acting, cool graphics and a pretty cool story that reminded me to the fellowship of the ring's prolouge. Anyways, that moment i knew this game would definetely be something to remember.
-Graphic: Cartoonish character and realistic enviroments make this game pleasant to the eye. Videos have very good graphics and character models are very creative. Animations are really good, you may see things exploding and soldiers jumping off bunkers to avoid a tank bullet. Some scenarios are simply bewtiful while others are ok. The only fault i find is that when you shoot a soldier with a tank and they just drop dead, i think im used to seing them flying ten meters before striking ground. hehe.
-Sound: One word, epic. The soundtrack is simply gorgeous with really cool themes that you will whistle for days remembering. Voice acting is relatively good while some dialogues are not very developed. Explosions and everything else like bombs sound ehm... like explosions and bombs. Short stroy most stuff is in its place.
-Story: mmm... the story is pretty interesting. You have the tipical evil side being fought by a series of other "good" sides. Characters are very stereotipical, for example: the western frontier(usa) commander is a souther short guy with southern accent, the tundran territory(soviet union or russia if you preffer) czar or prince is a tall white european-looking dude and the Anglo(english) commander is a thin old man with a big nose and a mustache. The main nations are world war 2 sides just that with different names like germany is xylvania and japan the solar empire. The story is very straighforward plotwize and consists of two flashback campaigns and three modern conflict scenarios.
Gameplay: the most important and obvious part. this game is not a first person shooter, its a third person. you control your unit(a tank, infantry, bazooka, flame, anti.air, boat, gunship or airplane) and then you give orders to your hole battalion or individual units. you may swap between characters anytime and there are no waitng time everytime your soldier gets shot down. You control air units aswell as naval units in some missions. controls arent hard, they just take the first two campaigns to get used to.
The action may get really intense. you might find yourself walking calmly along a bridge and next second find out you ran into your enemy's guns and tanks and get 80% of your units killed. The one interesting thing is that you do not simply go around killing stuff but have objectives(primary and secondary) and also have to know what units to use and which vulnerables to leave behind. for example, you do not charge all your units at a battalion filled with anti-air vessels and have your bombers and planes shot down. instead you have your planes waitng and then you take your gound units and kill whatever you need to kill.
Variety: Planes, foot-soldiers, tanks, naval vessels and in some missions cars all contribute to a battlefield full of variety. When you finish the campaign you may play online agains or with another player.
Online: its pretty sweet. while you may get your butt kicked by bwii beterans the game is really fun and other players really make you think to try to beat their strategies. You also have the option of playing with anyone anything or with friends(need freind code). At least you are not obligated to use friend codes.
Length: it actually lasts enough. The campaign may take you 5-7 hours if you are REALLY good, again, it took me like 14. After you finish first time you may go back to try to get A on every mission to unlock x-tra content which also adds several hours. You also have online which takes you howmuch time you want to play.
Lasting apeal: Definetely recomend it to anyone. The gameplay is very simply fun and while the story might be simple to some, it doesnt take away the epic feeling from them. The music also makes this game's soundtrack memorable, of course that its not as cool as zelda or metroid or mario.