FoW - Faces of War (New game, looks nice)

[Saden]

Well heres another new WW2 RTS that looks promising. It doesnt look to have the havoc engine, or the graphics that only runs on high end pc's. And it actually works for all people (unlike CoH)

http://www.3dgamers.com/games/facesofwar/

Its by Ubi Soft, check out the screenshots, the effects look amazing, and I love the detail. They've got a demo of it (Single player (2 missions) Worth a look, I'm gonna try the demo out. If any of you dl it, post your review, or what you think about the game here.

[lazlazlaz1]

ive played the demo for that, its not very good. it didnt give me a feeling for ww2 like coh does. but i guess the full game might be different

[Saden]

Well the cool thing about it is that there is demo modding. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums/a/frm/f/3001055373
People are actually making new maps, new skins ect. That just shows how flexible the game is. I don't know any other game that you can actually make new maps/skins for it.

[DraKon2k]

As a SHoWW2-vet, I have to say that it sucks. It has become way to arcade, the squad system just sucks(just like the whole HUD) and everything is too hectic.

[Saden]

There are actually two settings for the game. If you read on the forums. I'm not sure if its in the demo. But they are Arcade, and I think Realistic or something. The demo is probably arcade to get new players to play, so don't worry.

[DarkOmen]

Yes I'm very interested in this game. It was fun even on arcade (in the demo).

[DraKon2k]

I think that's just the difficulty level.

It just sucks that ie. like every 2nd soldier has a MG42, which he then also shoots from the hip.

[Saden]

Its not every second soldier has an MG, its not often that you see a soldier with his MG not mounted on sandbags, or a wall. And it is possible to shoot it from the hip, its an MG-34, it may not be the most acurate thing to shoot from the hip but its possible, but with the MG-42 thats a different story. The reason I know that they are 34's is that ever know and then somone yells out "MG-34!" And its not just the difficulty level, on their official forums they said that there are two modes, Arcade and Realism/Realistic. I'm not 100% sure what the other one is called, let me check on the forums again.

[Duff]

I thought the game was really unrealistic too, and the squad system is just plain aggravating. When you pause the game, you can only give orders to the currently selected unit- that's just stupid. It's like the developers don't want people to give complex orders and use tactics to defeat the enemy, just to click wildly on every new target that pops up.

So, is Soldiers a much better game than this? Someone made it sound like that.

[Saden]

Its because the demo is set an ARCADE mode. That means that it will be easier for NEW player to PLAY the game. And the fact that you can pause the game and give commands is smart, in WW2 when the soldiers weren't fighting they were taking orders like "First you take 2nd platoon, move in around em' and blow that building up. When its gone take 2nd and meet up with 3rd" ect. So please, don't judge this game untill the FULL version is released, remember its only a demo so some features may be improved and removed. Did I say it was on ARCADE mode?

[Duff]

I agree that pausing the game is a great feature (which you would realize if you read my post out...)- its the only thing that really makes RTS's playable for me. However, its difficult to use in FoW since you can only command one soldier at a time when the game is paused- to command the next one, you have to unpause and repause. The developers clearly did not make a game that they want you to think about too much, they just want you to click click click.

Also, even if the demo is on an arcade mode, it should give me an idea of what kind of game it is and entice me to buy it. The demo doesn't do that for me; I would not shell out my money for the game because I would not enjoy it. Others would, and I have no problem with that.

[Saden]

Check on the section for this game on the ubisoft forums, a guy made a sort of mod changing this to the tactical mode.

[Gien]

People are actually making new maps, new skins ect. That just shows how flexible the game is. I don't know any other game that you can actually make new maps/skins for it.

When you said that did you mean ANY full game or any demo, because if you mean full game then WOW because almost ANY game FPS RTS etc can be modded... as for demo's I've seen a few modded ones such as SW Empire at War people actually took the given demo terrains etc and mapped them onto other planets and unlocked almost all the ships.

[Saden]

I meant demo sorry.

[V.C. Sniper]

Download it, played it, love it.