GAME STUDIO DESCRIPTION: Soldiers: Heroes of World War II is set to go beyond the call of duty and provide PC gamers with a terrific online multiplayer experience with an innovative co-op multiplayer mode that allows up to four players to work through the game’s campaign together.
Soldiers allows you to handpick your troops from your real-life mates and team up with three buddies as a crack squad and play through any of the tactical action missions in the campaign. Complementing the strong single-player game, co-operative multiplayer affords all-new gameplay possibilities, vastly increasing the tactical options available to the players.
Get some practice in using Soldiers’ unique “Direct Control” system and brush up on those tactics, because you’re going to need it: after the release of the game, Codemasters will continue to support the Soldiers gaming community with additional content as free downloadable Upgrades.
The first will be a downloadable Multiplayer Upgrade, which will incorporate a brand new multiplayer mode (Versus) along with third-party online matching software, Gamespy Arcade. The free, fully-functioning matching service will make it simple for players to find a worthy opponent and go head to head in any one of Soldiers’ innovative multiplayer games.
The Multiplayer Upgrade will also form part of Codemasters’ ongoing anti-piracy and gaming security program. The Upgrade will only function with an original copy of the Soldiers disc and aims to safeguard players’ gaming environment against other players using cheats or hacks unfairly in the Versus multiplayer games.
GRAPHICS: The damage models are amazing—as if you needed an excuse to blow things up. Smashing everything in your path has never been so much fun. The tanks rip through everything in their way. Soldiers looks as you’d expect war to look-gritty and grimy. The ability to rotate the camera allows for clearer views that give you a great vantage point that could mean the difference between hitting and missing a target.
CONTROLS: You can go at it on foot and many vehicles which includes tanks. The controls are decent for the vehicles but rather complicated. Often you find that if you stray with vehicles, especially the tank, you can run out of gas and become a sitting duck. You can retrieve more gas however it’s best to have a game-plan so that you don’t use up all your gas.
The planning makes Soldiers unique and so much fun—and a challenge. You have to set your priorities and figure out what way you want to approach every move you make. There are some odd behaviors that even the best laid plans can’t save you from—war. Occasinally your team will get attacked out of the blue and bizarrely no one calls for help. Was it a sneak attack? It’s to bad you don’t know if it’s a glitch or casualty of war.
SOUND: Good music and sound effects are occasionally offset by weaker voice acting.
FRANKLY: With a good deal of missions and great multi-player Soldiers: Heroes of World War II is a must play.
+ Richie Wright
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