You kill Nazis. I like killing Nazis. I like this game


Also a FANTASTIC story

Very cutscene-heavy compared to the previous games, and I don't care for the "Call of Duty"-feeling tank levels. That aside, the gameplay takes a step forward with its destructible cover and new bazooka team. Shooting feels better too, and the contextual third-person camera makes commanding your squad notably easier.

This game aged so much more gracefully than the previous entries in the series. I can fully recommend it. Mainly due to its gameplay mechanics.


From my point of view previous entries are close to unplayable today. Gun accuracy there is so atrocious you can not take out an enemy from more than 6 meters away. Here this issue is completely gone. Especially with aim down sights weapons you often can hit an enemy on very long distance. However they still managed to balance the gameplay in such a way that player is forced to engage with squad mechanics. So while the core gameplay loop is the same - suppress enemy from front and flank from sides it feels much more natural here and not forced like in previous titles. Not like everything is perfect of course. The AI isn't the smartest so lot your squadmates deaths feel like the games fault rather than the players. Still these are minor gripes and the game is perfectly playable and enjoyable, even on harder difficulties.



The story is quite good, if you have played the previous entries. By itself it really doesn't stand on its own. The setting has been done to death at this point so it's hard to be impressed. In fact I don't know if the writers missed it during their research but there are other US divisions than 101 and 82 - many of them have done equally impressive things. The writers clearly have some talent so it would have been nice if they gave a try to idk Italy, Africa, British in Burma, or just any heck even other divisions from XVII Airborne corps.


There are some 9 missions in the game. Most set it Neatherland countryside or small cities. Each one is fairly linear - with just enough sidepaths to enable the gameplay loop - suppressive fire and flanking. As for objectives they aren't anything special - but given the story anything more special would feel out of place. You play as 101s not some super special forces operating deep behind enemy lines. So we get standard WW2 mix of shooting and disabling tanks/flaks. If the game was longer - currently it takes some 7 hours on harder difficulty, maybe 5 if you run on a easier ones - I guess it would get stale. But the gameplay loop has enough substance to make even these generic levels feel interesting for the whole runtime.


If you are in a market for WW2 shooter and don't strictly want a one man army experience give it a try. Also don't bother checking out older titles. Sure the story will suffer but the gameplay here is so much better representation of what the devs wanted to achieve it's almost uncomparable.