A fast and fun first person shooter that also allows you to add your own levels or even make your own game!

It brings nothing but fun, Jul 06, 2011

by Laraso

I’ve had this game for about 2 years now, and I feel I should say before anything else that this game can be very deceiving. With only 7 weapons and ridiculous looking characters, it is easy to overlook this game. Don’t do it, because this game is much bigger than it looks and you have to play it yourself to really experience it.

Now for an in-depth review:

Let me break this down into 5 parts:

-Weapons
-Single Player
-Multiplayer
-The Map Editor
-Miscellaneous

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Weapons
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First, let me talk about the weapons. There isn’t much to choose from (only 7 weapons) compared to other shooters, but the weapons that are in the game are unique from each other and actually give more diversity to the game than if it were to have, lets say, 7 assault rifles.

The seven weapons are the Pistol, the Chainsaw, the Chaingun, the Shotgun, the Rifle, the Grenade Launcher, and the Rocket Launcher. Each one fills a different unique role in the game, and reduces the redundancy found in other shooters. If you want to use a pistol, you don’t have to choose from 5 different pistols that do the same thing, you just use the pistol. It makes everything less complicated and the gameplay more smooth.

Your arsenal is also not limited by how much cash you have, or rank. Everyone has access to the same weapons at all times, and no weapon is better than the other because each weapon is unique, making gameplay more balanced than some other shooters.

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Single Player
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If there is one area that the game is lacking in, it is single player. Although the game provides a single player campaign and a few single player missions upon installation, they are relatively easy to beat and will not last long. If you want to make a high quality single player map (like as good as the ones that come with the game) you will need a very large amount of free time, a good understanding of the game, and some programming knowledge, so if single player is your thing then you will most likely be left downloading missions from other websites.

As for “Single Player Multiplayer”, or playing offline with bots, the skill level of bots is usually either too easy or too hard, and finding the right skill level to match you may or may not take a while to find. The game has a system in place where the bots “learn” from you, which simply means that if you move anywhere they don’t know how to get to, they will “learn” how to get there, but their learned knowledge only lasts for a single game, after that they “forget” what they learned. Depending on your play-style, you may have a different experience with bots than other people, whether it be a good one or a bad one. The bots themselves, however, are fairly competent and at higher levels are very good at the game, and will put up a good fight.

There is also a sort of survival type game mode, where you fight waves of single player enemies in multiplayer maps, which I personally found to be quite entertaining. The difficulty of this mode varies from map-to-map so it is fun trying it out on different maps.

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Multiplayer
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This is where the game really shines. With around 20 different game modes including free-for-all modes and team based modes, you wont be left capturing the flag over and over again (unless you want to, of course). The games very faced paced gameplay takes some getting used to, but once you do (and it doesn’t take long), other shooters will feel like your playing in slow motion. The game has a rather large active community and if the game turns out to be just too fast paced for you, you can just join a coop-edit server and build with other people.

If you like to really get into a games community, there is several active “clans” that you can join, if that is something you like to do.

The gameplay is of a pick-up-and-play style; you can join and leave at anytime and the gameplay is constant. Players aren’t set apart by rank and no player will ever have a better weapon than you. Everything is fair and the winner of a firefight is based more around a players skill than their equipment or weaponry. The game doesn’t encourage you to spend extra time in it, it encourages you to have fun.

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The Map Editor
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The map editor is another major part of the game. Every map that comes pre-installed with the game was made in its map editor. Bungie talks a lot about Forge, but all Forge equates to is moving around MapModels and placing Entities in this game. You don’t move around props, you start with a blank, flat canvas of a size of your choosing, and you change it to how you want. If you want a castle, you don’t build it using pieces, you shape the very geometry of the land to how you want it, then you change the texture of the walls of the castle just how you want it, then you add fine details by changing the geometry of the walls to how you think it should look. You can build virturally anything and everything using the editor. Whether it be Pacman or a replica of the Enterprise (someone has already done that), your creative options are limitless. And while this might not seem like much, you can do this in-game without having to reload the map. You can make maps with other people over the internet in real time, and it is very popular to do so.

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Miscellaneous
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There is lots of customization options that can be done. You can also download mods from other websites which can change the entire GUI (Graphical User Interface) or make different character and enemy models look different.

If you have a good understanding of how programming works, you can create your own mods as well.

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Overall, I would recommend this to anyone who has played and enjoyed a shooter before. This game is great fun and even if you don’t like shooters, you may enjoy its very good map editor.

it sucks, Dec 10, 2010

by julian

it doesn’t give you a tutorial, the menus are hard to understand, and when i went online, every time i re-spawned i got shot and killed within the first 5 seconds!
Get combat arms, its heaps better and its free too.

binaryhelp, Apr 02, 2010

by binaryhelp (miami, fl)

I agree! This is a great game for a LAN party.  And you can not beat the price.  So everyone can run it, without cracks, hacks or crashes.

The Incomparable, May 29, 2008

by Preetam (New Delhi, India)

This is one game that leaves you craving for more. And one game that’s completely easy on you pocket too, it’s free!

Yes, this the the future generation FPS game designed on the micro-footprint engine of CUBE. For that, and for the size, the game has way too much details for a freeware and for that I put a 5/5 in details. The AI is suprisingly developed, more than you can expect for the background of the game. It is a must for all the people who just love counter strike, but this baby is a more advanced verion of that.

The best is that it barely proves to be a load on the system resources. A 2.4Ghz single core processor, and a lower mid-end card(7600GT or 8600 GT) runs it like more than perfect. Even older cards can give you a full performance take for example the 6200TC. So again you do not a hi-tech computer to run this incredibly hi-tech game.

In the end I would like to say that this game is a must download and count on me, you won’t regret it!!!