Call to Arms is a top-down strategy game. You start off against another team and you have to spend credits that you earn as you play to buy vehicles or specialised units. You are able to order individual soldiers or whole squadrons of them. You can control where each soldier moves, where they should take cover or if they should throw a grenade/heal. This is quite nice that you have to make sure that your men are healed, it adds to the skill required to play properly and actually be good. This ensures that people who have played for an hour won't be able to kill people with 100+ hours very easily, because they won't be as coordinated.

The game isn't too graphically pleasing, and you should expect game stutters sometimes if explosions go off, I did see a little drop in the fps when you throw smokes down not so much if you throw a grenade. I averaged about 80-90 fps with a 1060.

Soldiers. Now before the game starts you have about 15 seconds to chose between an assault team or repair team which is kind of stupid because you would obviously choose the assault team and it doesn't take that long to chose one or the either when the choice is so stupid, it just delays gameplay, not by so much, but it can get annoying. There are other teams you can choose like Tank specialists, machine gunners and explosive experts who I believe carry rocket launchers. There is quite a selection although I have noticed the when you surpass like 5-8 teams you aren't able to acquire any more, which kind of sucks in some ways since you can't be some OP team that has almost everything in lockdown, it does have upsides like fair gameplay in most fights you have and it being easier to re-acquire stolen points.

Vehicles. As I have mentioned before you can buy vehicles. You can buy trucks and tanks, that's pretty much it. The tanks I think require you to also own tank specialists who would operate the tank for you. There are two types of trucks at the moment, one carries ammo for your soldiers and the other will transport soldiers around faster.

Servers. There were 4 servers I had seen that were online and I'm pretty sure they were hosted by people playing with their friends. 1 of the servers was full with 4 people on it, 2 were locked and the other had 2 players in it. You will most likely get loads of ping aswell if you don't live in certain places. I was getting bad ping on all servers. You could, I guess play on these servers if you live close to the others playing, but most of the people playing I think would stick to hosting their own servers for them and friends or LAN, If you don't have friends to play with you will be stuck playing with bots.

The price of the game is £22.99 which I don't think it is worth at all. You are probably best going with the more well-known titles that base around to the same concept, which you can get on sales for pretty cheap. A game I can think of is Company Of Heroes 2. There is a free version of the game that lets you play online and against AI, that's probably the best thing to do.

Overall you can have some fun when playing, but it's not as refined as other games you can find for a lower price and with actual updates. There is a bug where sometimes when an enemy or your soldiers walk near a wall half of their body will be able to be seen on the other half so people can shoot at you without you knowing that they are there.

5/11

Call to Arms is a top-down strategy game. You start off against another team and you have to spend credits that you earn as you play to buy vehicles or specialised units. You are able to order individual soldiers or whole squadrons of them. You can control where each soldier moves, where they should take cover or if they should throw a grenade/heal. This is quite nice that you have to make sure that your men are healed, it adds to the skill required to play properly and actually be good. This ensures that people who have played for an hour won't be able to kill people with 100+ hours very easily, because they won't be as coordinated. The game isn't too graphically pleasing, and you should expect game stutters sometimes if explosions go off, I did see a little drop in the fps when you throw smokes down not so much if you throw a grenade. I averaged about 80-90 fps with a 1060. Soldiers. Now before the game starts you have about 15 seconds to chose between an assault team or repair team which is kind of stupid because you would obviously choose the assault team and it doesn't take that long to chose one or the either when the choice is so stupid, it just delays gameplay, not by so much, but it can get annoying. There are other teams you can choose like Tank specialists, machine gunners and explosive experts who I believe carry rocket launchers. There is quite a selection although I have noticed the when you surpass like 5-8 teams you aren't able to acquire any more, which kind of sucks in some ways since you can't be some OP team that has almost everything in lockdown, it does have upsides like fair gameplay in most fights you have and it being easier to re-acquire stolen points. Vehicles. As I have mentioned before you can buy vehicles. You can buy trucks and tanks, that's pretty much it. The tanks I think require you to also own tank specialists who would operate the tank for you. There are two types of trucks at the moment, one carries ammo for your soldiers and the other will transport soldiers around faster. Servers. There were 4 servers I had seen that were online and I'm pretty sure they were hosted by people playing with their friends. 1 of the servers was full with 4 people on it, 2 were locked and the other had 2 players in it. You will most likely get loads of ping aswell if you don't live in certain places. I was getting bad ping on all servers. You could, I guess play on these servers if you live close to the others playing, but most of the people playing I think would stick to hosting their own servers for them and friends or LAN, If you don't have friends to play with you will be stuck playing with bots. The price of the game is £22.99 which I don't think it is worth at all. You are probably best going with the more well-known titles that base around to the same concept, which you can get on sales for pretty cheap. A game I can think of is Company Of Heroes 2. There is a free version of the game that lets you play online and against AI, that's probably the best thing to do. Overall you can have some fun when playing, but it's not as refined as other games you can find for a lower price and with actual updates. There is a bug where sometimes when an enemy or your soldiers walk near a wall half of their body will be able to be seen on the other half so people can shoot at you without you knowing that they are there. 5/11