A game with a few unique features, but too many problems.
War Rock had, and to some extent, still has, some characteristics that make it more than a rip-off of other games.
For example, rolling to avoid getting hit, ability to invite someone into your room, and overall three different battle scales that fit different play styles: "Close Quarters Combat", or CQC, with small maps and fast paced fights; Urban Ops, medium maps including a few vehicles; Battle Group, large maps, that often have a lot of tanks, helicopters, and aircraft. The best thing about this game is the mix-up of action on foot and in vehicles.
At this point, you'd be tempted to give it a try. Indeed, it's free to download and play.
Though, after a few hours - or even minutes, if you're unlucky enough - you'll find yourself facing the numerous issues War Rock has.
First of all, lag. It needs to be clarified that the developing company - Dream Execution, in short, DE - is based in Korea, and has made several versions of the game, first of all the Korean version.
Other version, including the International one, which is probably the one you'll try, have been made on a second time. International version is currently hosted by another company, K2, that has servers in Europe, America, and some parts of Asia. The game core has been developed to work fine on Korean networks, which are quite advanced and cover short distances. Therefore, the connection system - peer to peer - has serious trouble in wider areas.
Another issue is the game coding. Game programming is very poor: bugs, freezes and crashes are not infrequent. And mostly annoying to legitimate players, hacking.
The game is extremely vulnerable to hacking, and the programmers took practically no countermeasures. While in other games the worst cheats you'll have to face will be a few aimbots, in Warrock the most terrific hacks keep working, and cheaters run rampant. Prepare to see OPK - One Position Kill - hackers, who kill the entire enemy team. Or also superjumpers, then cheaters with unlimited ammo that fire dozens of rockets from the sky. And what's worse, even people with little experience in game hacking can code cheats: a few memory hacks and code injections are enough to get the job done. Hackers you can't kick out of your room, hackers that can boot you out - or even worse, crash your client to the desktop - at their desire.
The poor coding also causes memory leaks that makes the game go very inefficiently and, sometimes, crash. You'll wonder how is it supposed to run on low-end computers.
You'll find no interactive environment in game - you can't open doors, blast off crates, or control a machine. There's no way to communicate to your team except a text chat, which is also pretty annoying if you run the game on a low resolution - it basically takes up half your screen.
Weapons system - that won't really make you like Warrock.
You start off with stock weapons - weapons you'll always have. They're usually all-around guns (in terms of power, accuracy, RoF, recoil, weight, bullet velocity and ammo capacity) but you'll surely get bored after you use them for a while. So there's the Item Shop. There you can rent - not buy, rent - guns. The amount of restrictions is also disappointing - level restrictions, membership restrictions and also guns that you have to rent only with cash money. Also some weapons are very overpowered while other ones are extremely hard to use.
Community is also a weak point in this FPS. Players will yell out at you every time you kill them, with any kind of excuse. You'll often find yourself vote-kicked to the lobby by a teammate who is jealous of your score, who wants to make room for a friend of his, or someone who accuses you of "stealing his kills".
Even with all these issues, the gameplay is sometimes enjoyable, so are sound and graphics, and the game is addictive.
In any case, you can give it a try. It's free to try, and the "uninstall" button is always within your grasp.