Steam Review:War Inc. Battlezone - Review By Zealous

[Glenn Zealous]

I have not done a game review in a while but i figured this one needed a go and i hope they this game gets the attention of zero punctuation as i am sure the ZP team would have a field day with it. anyone my review is below and don't download this game haha

I am a hardcore gamer and game documentor and i can find love in most games but my attention span could only handle 5 minutes of this game.

Now the Game size is just over a gig which is good for smaller computers but i could still run 4 operating systems on my computer and still get a good FPS which is quite sad to see.

So i set the download and went to bed, woke up installed i was like great....loaded up into a sort of spam frenzy, now when i saw this game was for free i was like o.k starting company i guess need to get some attention so make the alpha version free. Great i can understand that but what i don't understand is.......

Why should i pay 40 bucks for the best site of weapons or select pay for free and pay more later i believe is the quote from the game.

keep in mind i have not even got into the game yet, so during this process the game tells me everything you can custom to the 10th degree and i was like great you got my interest selected skills and so on.

So now i am at the main menu and a little worried but i started a online game to get into it right away, now the lobby section is done well you can check ping numbers and players like a nice acceptable lobby. joined a game and loaded up join in and i was like wow where the ♥♥♥♥ am i.....2d world????

I found the game blurry to look at long distance so i guess it is on default settings so even with a ping of 300-350 i am setting on ultra settings and really i could not tell the difference in the game apart from the serious lag.

popped a few kills off ran around and did a few suicide runs and now i think i am going to uninstall it.

- Good idea but poor execution of gameplay
- Good menu layout but too much information and spam.
- Graphics are 10 year old sad, i am going to need super goggles to be able to use a sniper. Even on ultra there was no difference to medium.
- Game size is too small to be classed as using HD decals so lack in quality big time.
- Finally they still have the balls to give us a ♥♥♥♥ looking game with potential to get up there in the ranks of COD if they could only raise the benchmark of gfx while trying to sell us over priced digital content that honestly is worth 1/10 of what they have for sale.

I conclude this review that the developing company made a good attempt in the idea but could not raise the bar in level design or gfx overall to not only compete with competition but to want people to keep playing with absolute no resale value.

Zeal0usD
Zealous Development

 

[zeldafan1593]

So pretty much, you based how good a game was by its graphics and gameplay at high levels of ping. That sounds perfectly legitimate!

/sarcasm

 

[DaGleese]

you forgot to mention

-sluggish movement (you jump like 1 cm forward, and cannot shoot while jumping) an attempt to prevent bunnyhopping im sure, but why prevent bunnyhopping so drastically and leave so many other much much worse spam techniques available?

-appalling object mapping (invisible walls that stop bullets from hitting units around things like poles and walls)

-your character has a tendency to get stuck on top of stones and stuff while sprinting, leaving him jogging on the spot, and also VERY vulnerable, not to mention it still drains your stamina (which, if you are wearing any armour at all, you do not have much of)

-occasionally you get stuck in the floor and cant move till you die

-unrealistic weapon damage (hand grenades = instakill, nade launcher takes 2-3 nades to kill one man)

-90% chance the guy who killed me was using a sniper rifle, a ghilli suit and was sat miles away in a bush on a hill

-complete snipefest (apart from one map, which is a complete run and gun fest)

-one map is a terrible attempt at a counter strike clone, apart from it's just not fun.

-buying equipment with real money DOES make the game unfair, i unloaded an mp5 clip into a guys back at point blanc range, and it was as if id tapped him on the shoulder as he slowly turned round and shot me killing me instanly while i was reloading

-uninspired gear and weapons, taken straight from cod/bfbc2

-terrible 3rd person view perspective (you cannot tell if you are in cover or not from the inevitable snipers that will be on EVERY hill)

-3rd person view can be used to unrealistically see people coming from round corners without risking yourself, which leads to alot of corner camping

-the scope function of sniper rifles and red dot scope is glitchy and often doesnt show you the scope, but just the back of your characters head, leaving you at the mercy of whoever you were trying to shoot

units spawn at control points too quickly after they have died, they also spawn too close to the CP, this makes it annoying if you are trying to take the control popint as you have to fight VERY hard to take the point from constant apparitions appearing all around you, and even more annoying if you are defending the cp, as it causes ALOT of spawn kills

-terrible latency on alot of servers due to the game being full of noobs that can haz free gaem and download all their porn and torrents while playing simultaneously (i shot a guy dead, and witnessed his dead body slither away across the yard due to the terrible ping he had)

-the devs themselves seem to be complete noobs, people complained about smg's being ineffective, so they released an update that made alot of them BETTER than assault rifles...
they have also dealt with the issue of spawn killing very badly, just removing rewards for it, and telling people to think twice before spawn killing'... this is the internet! and its also a free game! do you think the community will think twice about griefing? NO! they will enjoy every last minute of it!

-when the match ends, nothing seems to warn you about it, the game just shuts off, and a sign pops up saying either your team won! or your team lost! very bland...

this is but to name a few reasons to avoid this game, the majority of these problems are fresh in my mind from just playing the game for 5 minutes

i would go as far as to say that this is the online shooter equivalent of big rigs