SyNapSe said:
Gearbox is now semi-infamous for supposedly hosing the PC port of Halo.. I guess. This game looks a lot like Call of Duty. It does look very nice if those are Xbox screens. I can't read German though.. perhaps, you could fill us in on some of the things that were interesting? (or at least made it unique from the other WW2 shooters)
(it's dutch!!!! not german thanks you
)
It's a squad shooter so you get to control your squad. Theres two fire teams, the assault team and the supression team. One you use to pin the enemy down, the other to flank and eliminate them. Enemies will also flank if your too passive. Oh, and you get killed real quick like in Rainbow Six Headshot is often fatal.
You can carry only 2 weapons, like Halo. You can have a tank in your squad, which you control in the same way as your soldiers, also you can 'mount' the tank and fire the machine gun on top and still direct orders.
The people in the game are ACTUAL soldiers that fought in WWII and who are in the war records, decorated with multiple medals and all the likes. You play missions that actual did happen and occur the way you wil play. All is modeled and built from real life satelite photo's from the 1940's.
There a multiplayer mode where you play 2 vs 2, and either one controls a aquad of 3 AI soldiers. Uhm, you play 8 days from the invasion on normandie, but you are the 101st aiborne, so you land behind omaha beach to assault the germans and cut them off from reinforcements.
It was a real treat to watch the characters and the voice acting, see an example of the facial expression system here:
Uhm, a cop-op mode they wouldnt say yet, they where afraid schedule wouldnt permit. But who knows, might make it in. The Mutliplayer mode is a sorta co-op, its objective based like assault. There is scripted sequences like in other war games, which are really impressive, i've witnessed some of them, and they gave me the chills.
If you've seen band of brothers, well then you get the picture. It's very open area's most of the time, large fields. Not primarily urban stuff, you are in the countryside of france obviously. There will be some I guess though, I only saw 5 or so levels, some not finished.
