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Oooh yeah, I love this game already, and I've only had it a few hours. The setup for you taking over a squad is excellent, and you actually feel proud to suddenly be in command of other people. Employing the flanking and assault tactics feels good every single time you pull it off. And the characters swear and are massively racist. It does make you feel slightly bad after a while though, because the idea of the game is to suppress Germans, then go round and shoot them in the back.
The faces on the characters really work effectively. During cutscenes you can move your head, and when they look at something just behind you it pays to look around because something is happening that could be pivotal to the mission. The levels are pretty big and non-linear too. If you have to take out 4 machine gun nests, there's the right order, an OK order, and the order that'll get you and your team cut to shreds. But each nest will have 2 or 3 routes to get to it, then positions to flank from.
My only gripe is that I'm playing on normal and I'm on mission 4/5 of 18 already after 2 hours of play on normal. There's an authentic mode to unlock, so that should be pretty harsh. Apart from that it can't be faulted. Puts MoH and CoD to shame.
The faces on the characters really work effectively. During cutscenes you can move your head, and when they look at something just behind you it pays to look around because something is happening that could be pivotal to the mission. The levels are pretty big and non-linear too. If you have to take out 4 machine gun nests, there's the right order, an OK order, and the order that'll get you and your team cut to shreds. But each nest will have 2 or 3 routes to get to it, then positions to flank from.
My only gripe is that I'm playing on normal and I'm on mission 4/5 of 18 already after 2 hours of play on normal. There's an authentic mode to unlock, so that should be pretty harsh. Apart from that it can't be faulted. Puts MoH and CoD to shame.
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I'm actually thinking of picking this up...
But I'mthinking of picking everything up. Why must Mercenaries taunt me so?
But I'mthinking of picking everything up. Why must Mercenaries taunt me so?
Get LIVE.
I can then beat your ass.
I can then beat your ass.
Oooh yeah, I love this game already, and I've only had it a few hours. The setup for you taking over a squad is excellent, and you actually feel proud to suddenly be in command of other people. Employing the flanking and assault tactics feels good every single time you pull it off. And the characters swear and are massively racist. It does make you feel slightly bad after a while though, because the idea of the game is to suppress Germans, then go round and shoot them in the back.
The faces on the characters really work effectively. During cutscenes you can move your head, and when they look at something just behind you it pays to look around because something is happening that could be pivotal to the mission. The levels are pretty big and non-linear too. If you have to take out 4 machine gun nests, there's the right order, an OK order, and the order that'll get you and your team cut to shreds. But each nest will have 2 or 3 routes to get to it, then positions to flank from.
My only gripe is that I'm playing on normal and I'm on mission 4/5 of 18 already after 2 hours of play on normal. There's an authentic mode to unlock, so that should be pretty harsh. Apart from that it can't be faulted. Puts MoH and CoD to shame.
The faces on the characters really work effectively. During cutscenes you can move your head, and when they look at something just behind you it pays to look around because something is happening that could be pivotal to the mission. The levels are pretty big and non-linear too. If you have to take out 4 machine gun nests, there's the right order, an OK order, and the order that'll get you and your team cut to shreds. But each nest will have 2 or 3 routes to get to it, then positions to flank from.
My only gripe is that I'm playing on normal and I'm on mission 4/5 of 18 already after 2 hours of play on normal. There's an authentic mode to unlock, so that should be pretty harsh. Apart from that it can't be faulted. Puts MoH and CoD to shame.
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