46 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 43.8 hrs on record (43.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: 16 Feb, 2022 @ 3:26am
Updated: 16 Feb, 2022 @ 3:08pm

Summary

🟢 Pros
🔴 Cons
- Excellent alternate history setting
- Engaging storyline with very good voice-acting
- Lots of over over-the-top nazi scum
- Excellent gunplay: kill all the nazi’s!
- Various playstyles are viable (all-out gunplay, cover-based gunplay, often even stealth – to a degree)
- Destinctive visual style
- Quite some optimization issues reported
- Weapons could use some more “oomph” sound-wise
- The only story-related choice (early in the game) has very limited impact

Technical Stuff

🟠 Bugs & Issues
🔵 Specs
- Almost none encountered during my two playthroughs but others have mentioned optimization issues
- Played early 2022
- Engine (ID Tech 5) is locked to 60fps but can be unlocked using the Id5 Tweaker tool (available on PCGamingWiki)
- Ryzen 5 3600
- Sapphire RX 5700XT
- 16GB RAM
- M.2 SSD
- 1440p

To buy, to play or to skip?

What do you get out of it?
I played this game twice, with several months in between and finished it early 2022. The two playthroughs together took me close to 44 hrs, with the second one taking up almost 30 hrs due to aiming for 100% achievements. For many gamers one playthrough will suffice, but 10-15 hrs is still excellent value for the money. Aiming for the achievements is actually real fun since it involved getting all the available perks which demands adapting one's playstyle quite often.
How did it age?
The game was originally released in 2014 so by the time of writing this review it is almost 8 years old. It does show its age in some respects, like in the sometimes blurry textures or in the not so perfect lipsyncing in cutscenes, but in the end it doesn’t feel like an old game at all. Don’t expect state-of-the-art graphics, that’s all.
Is it worth buying?
Yes, definitely now that it’s often on sale for 10 euro/dollar or less (2022). And when you already have it in your library but didn’t play it yet: just install and hit the play button whenever you feel the urge to kill lots of nazi's.

Verdict: Very good, great fun to play
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6 Comments
PrinzEugen 17 Feb, 2022 @ 2:11am 
Thanks a lot my friends, still thinking about adding some screenshots and a text-review at the end, but maybe it's perfectly fine as it is. Going to redo some of my older reviews in this format soon. :fhappy:
Hairy Mary 17 Feb, 2022 @ 1:39am 
Looks very professional Diederik! Well done!:steamthumbsup:
Mossy 16 Feb, 2022 @ 4:55am 
:gearthumbsup:
PrinzEugen 16 Feb, 2022 @ 4:04am 
Thanks a lot, I'm trying out a different kind of review: less plain text and a more fancy editing. :fhappy:
Lucia 16 Feb, 2022 @ 3:44am 
This looks very clear and concise - well done :)
PrinzEugen 16 Feb, 2022 @ 3:28am 
Review is work-in-progress testing out a more sophisticated lay-out, with lots of thanks to Tamaster and his amazing Review Guide!