Thank god this demo didn’t last an actual hour, don’t forget to click more to see some member impressions too!

Well, what can I say? The trailer hit a few months back and left a lot to be desired. I thought it looked very plain and basically a rehash of everything we had seen the past five years. Was I wrong? Short answer: No. Long answer: Certainly it would seem that I was not incorrect in my assumption.

The demo begins offering you 3 different characters to choose from. Bull (guess what he is), a Sniper and a ‘Stealth’ character. I started off with the sniper and got straight into the game. It starts off pretty hectic and while some guy starts talking to me about how the Jerry’s are on their way, I start to look around. First thing I notice? Its taking me forever to look around! Going into the options, the sensitivity is set to 0, so I bump that up about half way – much better.
Stepping out I start to get shot, so I quickly duck into cover by pressing B (Oh, did I mention the controls are horribly mapped like that?) Right clicking into my sights, I take a look around the field and see a bunch of soldiers shooting me, so I start to pick them off one by one. They drop like rag-dolls, and I move on. At this point I notice the only saving grace that this game has to offer! A Welsh voice shouted “Glad ‘e’s on our side!� – it felt great to hear a Welsh voice in a game, something I hadn’t heard since Gimli in LOTR!
Anyway, as I move on some explosions start to go off around me, but oddly I only noticed them visually. The sound is so dulled when they go off that I thought they were miles in the distance – they didn’t even sound like explosions, more like someone jumping into a patch of sand. Most of the sound effects are like this unfortunately, sounding very dull and out of place.

I began to notice that the auto-aiming was ridiculous on this game. Having my crosshair on the other side of the screen, it slowly dragged across and onto a soldier that was nowhere near my sights. I turned them off at this point. Taking down a few more soldiers I was greeted with something marvellous! The game crashed…

Restarting the game I completed the mission with the sniper, it ended quite funny with a skinny commander plainly saying “This should do it� and managing to kick down a 10 ft fence. Nice.

Next I played as Bull, and typically I was straight into a tank. Firing on buildings I noticed they disappeared (the only cue I had to realise I’d fired properly as I couldn’t hear my tank shoot!) After taking down a few other tanks, some idiot shouted “Tank to the right!� So I took a look around to the right, and got blown up by a tank that in fact came in from the LEFT! I knew the AI was bad, but they can’t even tell their left from their right!
Anyway, blowing up that tank, the level suddenly ended with loads of explosions going off and soldiers running around. A load of tanks drove into a city and some epic music played – I don’t know if I won – I didn’t have a clue what was going on at this point!

Playing as the stealth guy proved to me one thing on this game – the AI is absolutely atrocious. I ran around butting soldiers with my machine gun (one hit kills by the way) and got to the end of the level in about 4 minutes before I decided this was too much and committed suicide by standing in front of a soldier that took 30 seconds to kill me.
As the stealth guy you also can throw knives, pick locks and cut wire fences. Put for some reason you can’t throw knives through the gaping holes in wire fences – peculiar!

All in all, this game is pretty bland, broken and well.. rubbish. To seal it up, here are a few choice quotes from the game:

“Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay� (I wish I was joking, someone actually said that)
“Lets put some holes in ronalds precious armour� x45.
“Get over here. Get over here. Get over here. Get over here. Get over here”

It would seem that the forum is pretty much in consensus with this. A sample of our member’s impressions:

“Played it quickly this morning before work! Wasn’t impressed at all…. very shoddy!” - Bam Booie

“It blows more than a hair dryer.” - Killer_Cheese

“OH BLOODY HELL ITS A JERRY GET SOME SPUDS IN THERE AND THEN LET’S GO FOR SOME TEAAAAAAAAAAA YOU BLADDY WANKERS” - TinnyMin on the topic of the over the top British accents

“Imagine Call of Duty if it was a LOT slower and not nearly as fun. That’s Hour of Victory.” - SpookRecon

Discuss/Bash

-Andy

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