Of course, if you decide to fire at them, you might not be able to hit them, thanks to the game's frequent and inopportune slowdowns. Or, you might blow yourself up the instant you try to use your grenade launcher, thanks to the game's swarm of bugs even with the latest patch, which itself addressed literally dozen of issues.
Sometimes Soldner feels more like an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus than a realistic military game. Trying another tactic, maybe you'll walk up to one of the Tribes-style equipment stations and select a helicopter, which then magically appears out of thin air. But, oops, the sluggish, awkward controls mean your helicopter literally ends up hanging in a nearby tree like a child's kite that got away.
So, you try again with another chopper, parachuting out before it veers out of control and crashes, but suddenly you soar through a village roof and find yourself inexplicably stuck on the floor. The jeeps aren't much fun, either, since the physics feel about as realistic as Mario Kart.
You have to keep slowing down to avoid nasty encounters with trees, and there's no option for a first-person view, meaning that said trees often block your vision. Tanks can be even worse: we bumped into some sandbags at slow speed, and our tank flipped twenty feet in the air and landed upside down. While Soldner's vehicles are a mess, the alternative of running on foot instead of using the game's sloppily implemented vehicles isn't much better since you run as slow as molasses in winter.
There's a sprint function, but like many commands in Soldner, it often requires multiple button presses to register, and movement is still way too slow. By this time, you're probably sick of the game and want to quit, and then you learn that Soldner takes even longer to quit than to load.
Sometimes it won't even load properly, for that matter. Even after the game has returned you to your desktop, your hard drive might keep thrashing wildly for a few minutes. Most of these problems, as you can guess, are equally present in the multiplayer modes, which support 32 players per server.
Soldner includes a host of game modes, though none is particularly original: deathmatch, conquest akin to Day of Defeat or the Battlefield games , capture the flag, hostage rescue, and so forth. Just finding a decently populated server is a challenge in itself -- it's like a ghost town out there. Bugs can make connecting -- and staying connected -- extremely hard. Choppy net code makes aiming or steering a frustrating chore, even when you have broadband and a low ping.
You might enjoy a few brief moments that showcase the game's missed potential, but most of the time it's a mess. Compared to the player matches of the also just-released Joint Operations, it's no contest which game you should be playing. Soldner isn't entirely bad.
You at least get to use a wide range of real-world weapons, including pistols, assault rifles, sniper rifles, and rocket launchers. Firearm accuracy is affected by movement and whether you use HUD crosshairs or the gun's own iron sights.
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In recent online shooters with a single player mode see Battlefield , UT et al , the solo campaigns provide little more than training for the real thing.
And while Soldner is very much an online experience, the offline mode is a full game in itself. Even more interesting are the political and diplomatic aspects of the campaigns. Needless to say, at this stage Soldner looks like a fantastically grand project. The only real danger is that Wings will attempt too many new ideas, and that some of them may not work we all know what a poor impact the destructible environments in Red Faction made or that people will treat it as just another pseudo-team-based deathmatch as happens all-too often in Battlefield To counteract the second threat, each team has a nominated commander who ensures his soldiers work together.
How he will do this is still unclear though, and the nightmare scenario we have already woken up in a cold sweat about is having some snotty year old from Bremen barking orders at us. As always, you'll need to join a clan to guarantee a proper match. But then such is the nature of team-based online shooters. Not only does the huge gaming field mean you're unlikely to tread in the same place twice, the online games can be tweaked so much that you'll probably never play the same mission-type twice either.
But each of these can be edited to change objectives and parameters. So, for example, you could alter a CTF to turn it into a Capture the Helicopter in which case you'll have to fly it back to base without it being destroyed or you could turn a Hostage Rescue into a weapon retrieval mission.
On top of that, Expert mode will allow you to configure a vast number of additional parameters, add your own scripts and generally tinker to your heart's content. Wings is also making Soldner as easy to mod as possible, almost guaranteeing a long, healthy life for the game.
First there was Battlefield , then Planetside , now bringing up the rear is Soldner, the latest first-person shooter to jump on the let's add loads of vehicles and wide-open spaces to get lost in' bandwagon. Actually, compared to what's gone before, this German-crafted game adds many a welcome feature that, in theory, might improve the likes of Battlefield a great deal more. The buildings are all fully destructible, a shell fired at the ground leaves a crater for troops to huddle in and there's a very powerful command feature that means one player can order and keep track of his team-mates - even issuing them with equipment should they request it.
What's more, with dozens of weapons, class-based character customisation and over 70 vehicles to climb into, from jeeps and tanks, to helicopters and fighter planes, Sdldner is probably the most comprehensive game in its class. It's also the worst by quite a considerable margin. Let's start with the best bits and work our way down.
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