First of all, my review is based on the retail game itself..not the demo or the tech beta i was in, the final game who's coming in the box!! JO is not a sim warefare like Ghost Recon or America's Army and, it's not having a great graphic engine like Far Cry...it's more like a improved BF1942 Desert Combat. Joint Operation as been design to be played either like fast pace game play in a "rush and gun" style or in a tactical way. When you entering the game, a short intro is showing the actual gameplay. After that, you have to choose from a total of 67 different skins, 7 voice, 5 character classes, around 40 different weapons, and 21 different vehicules. Graphics are awsome!!! I can't believe that peoples are saying that the graphics sucks!! At high settings, you can see AT missile heat contrail when firing them and the same goes to the heli turbines exhaust heat effect. The explosion are not eye candy, but it's ok. The weapons models are very good to me. The sound is awsome, 5.1 speakers settings is a must for someone who owns such hardware.The chopper sound is very well done...everytime a chopper is passing over my head, it reminds me the good old time in the Army. The APC on the Joint Operation side is the same as the Canadian Armed Forces APC Bison. The engine sounds the same and you can here the release valves on the brake pneumatic system when stopping the vehicule. The map are huge and, that's what it's fun in that game. When playing, the gamers as to organize there self and ask for transportation like in real life. There's an option that i like very much and the players are not using it very often is the commander menu. With that, you can form squad and the CO is able to put waypoints with explanation text for the "what to do". 4 gametype is available: Team King of the Hill, Team Deathmatch, Advance and Secure and finally COOP. Servers can take up to 150 players so, that a lot of tracers to illuminate the sky. One great thing to in JO is that the daytime environment is changing to night time..better bring your night googles soldiers, you're gonna need them. Punkbuster as been implanted so, no cheaters are allowed. I played BF1942 and BF Vietnam and, both of those 2 great games has been sold today on EBay because right now, i don't feel to play nothing else than JO. It's a great game with a lot of potential and, hopefully, Novalogic will do add-ons for the futur. A map designer tool is coming out too so, the replay value for this game is unbelievable. There is no single play for JO except that there's 13 training missions and, you can always create a COOP lan game. So to finalize my review, a lot of players as been reviewing JO with the demo and, what a mistake they've done. The only thing i can complain is that, there's no option for choosing or having a random weather. A great title to be proud to own for every military first person shooter lovers.
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