sailorbear510 aka Jason,

Hi Jason,

The game looked decent enough.

I would compare it to games I played 10 to 15 years ago graphically except for the weapon skins that looked quite recent.

However, I found the A.I. abysmal and the game was way too short with approximately 20 to 30 minutes of game play at the most. Still the short time I played, it was enjoyable enough. (You'd be better playing one of the early shooters from 2000 to 2010; e.g., the original Crysis, or the early games in one of my favourite game franchises, Battlefield; i.e., Battlefield Vietnam and Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2), or the early Call of Duty or Men of Valor games, all from 2002 to 2005 apart from Crysis which was released late in 2007 (in Russia), and available in the UK and America early 2008.

There's a Battlefield 2 mod called Battleground 44 (originally called Battlefield 1944 and meant to be a follow on from the modders Battlefield 1943 mod that was a homage to the original Battlefield 1942 game that was released in 2002). It doesn't require the original Battlefield 2 to play and is an exceptional mod with brilliant AI (it almost feels like you're playing against real player at times). I did some beta testing of the mod a couple of years ago and it was pretty amazing, especially considering the engine used for BF2 is now 17 years old. You can find the Battleground 44 mod over on ModDB HERE.

There's also a free standing mod based on the Battlefield 2 game, by the modder that created the Eve of Destruction Vietnam based mods for the first three battlefield games, that was updated and then released as an independent game on Steam called Eve of Destruction - REDUX VIETNAM. It's not free, but when on sale is well worth getting, especially if you like Vietnam based games like I do. Finally, another excellent Vietnam based shooter called Men of Valor (released in 2004) is also well worth getting. At the time of its release its graphic was way ahead of it's rivals. When the first mission started, I found myself running across a farmer field after being ambushed by a squad of VC, who were coming out of the jungle along the edge of the field. It was one of the most intense and exhilarating moments I've ever experienced playing a first person shooting game. Even today, eighteen years post release it's graphic holds up against many AAA shooter's released years afterwards. Again, another game that despite its age is well worth getting when on sale.

A short to medium aside. Three weeks before Men of Valor was released on Steam I'd purchased a job lot of 15 unopened hard copies of Men of Valor from an online shop. My intention was to send the copies out to friends because one of the things about shooters released in the noughties, was that they all allow you to create your own server within the game (so long as you have a spare copy). This was a great way of not having to rely on developers closing down servers when they were no longer profitable, like most developers of online shooters do these days. It's one of the reasons you can still find decent communities playing all of those shooters from the noughties. Its still one of my top favourite games to play with friends, which is why I bought the job lot. So, I was really surprised to see it released on Steam after a well known distributor had bought the rights to the game only three weeks after I'd purchased the 15 hard copies. It turned out cheaper to gift the games on Steam rather than post the games to friends all over the world as it was 50% off when it first appeared. (I've still got about ten copies of the game left, lol); that said, the Steam version has to be verified every time you boot it up because an important file is deleted every time you close the game down. The only advantage of getting the Steam version is that it has all the patches and the free map pack included in the price of the game.

p.s. I've sent you a message via Steam regarding this weeks upcoming games.