On a note, Humble Bundle is amazing when you got loads of games at once. Owned this for years before I was in the mood to play it.

Call of Duty hasn’t excited me since Blops back on the PS3. I was never into single player, and my attempt during Blops and Call of Duty 3 left me not wanting to play more.

However I was really in the mood for a WW2 shooter after my visit to a local war museum, so I thought. Hey why not. I had no expectations going in other than I wanted to play a WW2 shooter.

Starting the game up for the first time, I was impressed with the graphics and visuals. Aesthetically the game is toeing the line between realistic, and video gamey. Like on a wide shot of troops, it could be mistaken for real. Then when you see one of the handful of main characters it’s like; “oh yeah, it’s a game”.

However functionally the first thing I ran into was the game bugs. This game came out in 2017, almost 8 years ago now. However I never realized how bad the “release now fix later” mentality was. The game endlessly crashed, and would need constant validation to work. I don’t know if it’s because of my rural broadband connection loosing packets. Or because the game corrupts itself. Maybe it was a Proton thing. But almost every mission I had to validate the game files for it to work.

When the game worked, though I had a good time. Shooting baddies was satisfying. The aesthetics mixed in with the gameplay was exactly what I was looking for. And the game had good variety. Though the game lost it’s polish outside of the main game loop. That one flying section was awkward, same with the tanks and while the stealth sections aren’t mandatory, it felt like it was.

The only other thing which didn’t work for me was the story. Yea it’s a work of fiction, and over the top all the time. I could suspend my disbelief and enjoy the action. Right up to the mid way point when the game pauses for long sections of time to focus on the stories “drama”. This drama was there from the beginning, but I felt it was more subtle, or maybe tolerable compared to closer the end. There’s also a b-plot about the protagonist’s brother which was extremely predictable which I actually eye rolled when I saw it’s conclusion.

With that said, I liked the epilogue, I liked the shooting, the level designs were great, and the overall story was good. I just think if you are in the mood to play some WW2 shooters that you should probably pickup an older title before this one. However if you do find this game on a discount or already in your library, I did enjoy my time with it. So if you are in the mood. It may be worth picking up.