WWII Online: Blitzkrieg

The Good
WWII Online gives you the freedom to go anywhere and shoot anyone. Normal first person shooters send you down "alleys" and there is no diversification allowed. Well this game has broken that mould and you are free to explore! There is also the freedom to walk, drive and fly in most of the equipment available at the time. The rank system allows the more experienced the better "toys" and this saves wasting your countries resources on noobs. The overall experience is absorbing and the players can group in different squads resembling units from that era. I joined the 3rd Panzergruppe and we have over 100 members playing on and off.

The Bad
It can control your whole life it is so addictive. Lag is a problem and if you are up against an opponent with a better spec computer he tends to get the jump on you.

The Bottom Line
If you can afford it give it a go it's excellent. Please do not blame me if your partner leaves you due to excessive game play!!!

The Good
Lets just say last "night/morning" (there has been a lot of these sessions)I was playing with 2100 other players. I played on the Axis side as a tank, Anti-Aircraft Gunner, Anti- Tank Gunner, Infantry, Aircraft, and on a Boat.

I'm always waiting for the next patch, to see what new toys have been created. I hear mortars and 2 man machine guns are coming.

The Bad
This game consumes me. If you have a spouse or family don't buy it.

The Bottom Line
At first the graphics look average. But the dynamics of explosions are excellent. When the game environment changes from Day to night and back to daytime is great. Like those sunrises after playing in the night.

The Sound is good. All of the vehicles sound different from one to the next.

The Detail of the weapons and vehicles are top notch. The dynamics of the game are very good.

The $40 payed for this game is well worth it. The first night of playing online(practiced for about a week offline) payed for it. The first session I was awestruck. Aircraft wizing around, aa-guns firing, tanks trying to penetrate the bunker, infantry firing, Bombers dropping bombs. And to think that each is different person from around the world.

The Good
I love the premise. They set up a 1/2 scaled Europe, and they give us WWII weapons and vehicles, and let us play it out all over again with no set missions - rewriting history online. Can the Nazis control America with better leadership? We may never find out with all these glaring bugs.

The Bad
Personally, I don't like the frame rates. On my top end system, flying a plane over an unpopulated town will take my frame rates into the single digits, and often stopping for long periods of time (5-120 seconds), after which I am usually dead. Thousands of other players express problems with crashing to the desktop, an inability to even start a game, and an unheard of load time - up to 10 minutes. And that's just for starters. The game manual is about as thick as a waffle house menu, the graphics are on the same level as some 1993 DOS titles even at the highest setting, not to mention the rifleman that fires backward and into the ground - a bug that hasn't been fixed 2 months into the release. All in all it has the feel that the game is still in alpha testing, and buying the game funded further development.

The Bottom Line
A WWII simulator that has many bugs, many flaws, many shortcomings, and a hard row to hoe to reach greatness. Fun to play when it works, hair pulling when it doesn't.