Better late than never. This game surprised me in a great way.
Anyways, this game surprised me in a great way. I found it easy to learn, easy to configure and great fun once I started doing the missions.
The graphics in this game came as a shock as to how good they are. I especially like the way they did the night sky and the anti aircraft guns firing away at the planes. I found myself just standing around looking at that while my comrades in arms where yelling at me to get a move on! LOL. Really made me feel at home as that usually happens to me at work too. :P
The sound in this game is excellent too. Everything just sounds pretty darn real. The game play is solid so far. I'm playing the game out of the box without any patches. I don't know if there even are any, but so far, I haven't seen any need for one. The ai in the game seems very cool. If I fall behind, my teammates yell at me to get a move on, they warn of all kinds of situations etc. I actually forget sometimes they are AI characters. That impresses me.
The controls are nice and simple yet intuitive. That's saying a lot from me as like i said, i'm playing this game to get into FPS for almost the first time. If I am comfortable with the controls, then I think anyone would be. The screen is not cluttered with a bunch of confusing stuff either. What's there is useful and I use it. So far, I haven't found myself saying, "I wish they had this or that displayed."
The game as a whole really seems to capture the intensity of what it must be like to be in a war situation. Very intense indeed.
All in all, I find this game fun and immersive. I never used to like FPSs, and I don't even know why I wanted to try one again; but after playing this game for as much as i have so far, I'm sure glad I picked this one up.
Granted this review is from a newbie to FPSs, but if there are any others new to FPSs out there looking for a gem of a game at an affordable price to get into, this one is a winner.