Half Life + World War II - Free Downloads = Day of Defeat, a Half-Life modification of the Second World War.
The Paragraph below talks about STEAM and how Day of Defeat and other Mods work on it. Skip to the next paragraph to see the game review.
This famous Multiplayer step has been the same with all of Valves Mods, but this can uninterested the public at the same time. This means, that, all you do is just join a server from a list of servers (A channel with online players, NOT! A.I, though there are some games with added in A.I) and you get brought into the game quicker then any other WWII FPS. When this game came out in early 2000 you had to own Half Life the game and download Day of Defeat off the Internet. It was complicated for some, but they should not own a computer if they found it confusing. For all the noobs to Half Life, its not running by its self anymore, Valve teamed up with STEAM (a stupid program that steals peoples money, not really, but games aren't free to download anymore) and now the free downloads to the #1 online game of the world cost money ($14.95 for Counter-Strike, and $9.95 for Day of Defeat) This program makes it easier for people to run games and get monthly and weekly updates for all the games STEAM has. Just go to www.steampowered.com and you can download STEAM and create an account for free, but games cost money.
Day of Defeat has every element that the movie "Saving Private Ryan" has. This game leads over all WWII FPS by having a huge variety of guns to choose from, and how you can't seem to ever stick with one gun the whole time. The game is broken down into two forces, the Allies and the Axis. Allies are the Americans and British, and the Axis are the Germans. You dawn battle through more than 25 official maps, plus mod made maps.
The Graphics are just simply stunning! That would be more convincing if we were back in 2001 but were not and compared too today’s standards its horrible on the graphics level. When you see the cheap animated blood squares fly out of another soldier’s mouth, it’s just cool! But now its just funny or corny would be the better choice. You should still appreciate the value of detail the Mod creators put into this game, its under appreciate, even at the time of release.
The Sound is better than anything. When you first shoot the M1 Garand (American Rifle) it just sounds beautiful, the sounds can be more important than the graphics because you get hyped up for the loud gun shots mixed with the bullets hitting the bloody ground. When another soldier gets hit its not all that impressive, they just make moaning noises and some Moded servers have annoying sound effects when you die or get hit. Admins (server administrators) are really selfish in this game when it comes to sounds. You might have to wait up to 7 minutes just to join a server because you have to download lame sounds that you never hear, big negative about STEAM.
Overall this game is fun. If you owned the game from the begging of 2001 what I am saying makes sense, but when I bash on STEAM and server Admins to all of the new comers out there you will soon see what its like to deal with the two. This game is almost flawless; it’s not the game itself but the crap you have to go through to get in a single server. This game used to be loaded with "Hackers" (Cheating Jerks) but now you don't have to fear them because all STEAM servers have Anti Hacking Programs on and if you by pass this you can easily be caught and STEAM banes your STEAM account forever, that’s what happened to me! Play the game fairly and cool and you won't have to be worried about anything, just where the enemy is going to pop out of.