An Awesome and Underaprreciated Shooter
Gameplay: DOD has, handsdown, the best infantry-on-infantry battles I've ever experianced in a game. Some people may complain that lacks vehicles or that servers only hold 32 people at maximum, but this is easily ignorable. The maps are fairly small and take place in urban enviroments, and finding enemies and allies is usually never a problem thanks to team markers and a handy map. Even games with less than twenty people are intense and fun. This is a infantry -combat-centered game, and becasue of this combat is exciting and varied as squads of infantry face off in bombed out buildings and streets. The game also encourages teamwork by limiting the amount of gear 1 person can have and by giving you a fairly small amount of health; a couple shots from a machine gun or even one shot from a rifle is enough to kill you. The gear you get is based on your class, and each class has capabilities that another class may not have. A large squad of just assualt troops will get their butts handed to them by a machine gun emplacement, but if they have a bazooka or sniper with them the machine gun is toast. DOD Source uses the HL2 Source engine (which is why it is called DOD Source). The graphics are a huge upgrade in quality from the 1st DOD, and along with imporved physics system the game looks much prettier and realistic. A bazooka shot will send soldiers flying, and a sniper bullet will not only send you head over heels but also leave a pretty bloodstain behind you. You only time you hear music in the game is when you first load the main menu, and I found myself staying at the main menu for at least 5 minutes just listening to it. The music is a mix of rousing military marches that send goosebumps up your flesh, and it gets you revved up to kick some Nazi (or Ally) butt. The in-game sounds are great too; each gun has a distinct sound , and every action produces a different sound, from reloading to sprinting to taking bullet to the face.
This games deserves way more credit and popularity that it gets, as it has long been in the shadow of bigger titles like Battlefield 2 and CS. Though it may seem at first to be a limited experiance, I promise you that it will provide teh most intense gameing experiance you've ever had.