A good World War 2 game,with great variety of scenarios and weapons.
Every year,many games about the conflict are released.Most of them focus the story in the late days of the war,when the U.S marines invaded normandy,in july,1944.This game is about the 1st infantry division,the "big red one",and you play as a soldier in this division.You'll fight in North Africa,Italy,France and some other countrys including Germany.
It's a bit hard to get used to the gameplay,and it takes sometime before you know exactly what to do in the battlefield.But that will not be a problem,once the enemy's A.I is quite stupid,and the same for your allies.You walk with something about four other soldiers,but they're useless,and they can't die either.You'll use many weapons throughout the game,and all of them have a good aim mode.At this point the game isn't much realistc:when you shoot an anemy from far distances,you will probably hit him,even when you see that the bullet missed the target.When you find something to hide yourself,you can get down on your knees or lay down on the ground by pressing X.There is a jump button,but you won't use mutch.Z is for the grenades,wich are way more powerfull then the greanades in any other war game.
The game has good graphics,with many explosions and dozens of soldiers and tanks in the screen.It does look like a battlefield,with plains bombing the area,flying through a great variety of skyes:sunsets,nights,dawns...
The soldiers are well designed to,but the texture frequently look strange,and you will notice fails like soldiers that magically disapear and plains that don't move,just stay there laying over a building.
The songs in the game are weak,specially if you remember the wonderfull songs in medal of honor series.The sounds,however,are realistc,like gunshots and plains flying over. The game has a great variety of battlefields,including deserts,beaches,forests and snowlands.And you use many veichles,too,like tanks and airplains.The enemys are different between each other.When you fight in belgium and france,you will fight against germans,wich means they will scream in german and use german weapons.When You fight in Sicilly,your enemies are italians,so they use other arsenal.It has a small campaign,wich goes from 1942 to 1945,and you start as a private,who is promoted to corporal and then sargeant.If it wasn't for such a great variety,this game would probably have a much lower score.