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This game is revolutionary!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: May 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For the first time, a combined arms first person simulation with infantry, tanks, and planes (and eventually ships and subs, too!) all on a HUGE map of Wester Europe. The game will be a persistent universe where your character gains rank and participates in missions with other players. Thousands of people all playing in the same arena, all fighting each-other to win the war! The battles are intense. The real performance characteristics and physics of vehicles has been modeled in intense detail. The graphics are great for a sim and you will really feel like YOU ARE THERE.

Whether you're a sim junkie, a fan of first person shooters, a World War II officianado, or just someone who wants a massively multiplayer online game with a true player-vs-player environment where what you do actually MATTERS, this game is for you!

Purely Revolutionary

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game will be THE most historical game of the year. It's innovative setup will guide this historical reinactment, first-person shooter, real-time strategy and RPG into the msot addictive and realistic war game ever. Just the pure scale of entire Europe and all WWII equipment EVER used is enough to make any gamer drool. Well, I'll see you on the battlefield June 6th!

A great game, getting better! Must play.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game had some intial troubles on release, including a patch that you have to download. This is not unusual of a online game, however. If you love war, or are interested in WWII, this is for you! It is quite intense working with other people to achive a mission. As time goes on they are adding more equipment and more battles. This game will just get better folks. It was just released, if you have patience pick it up now, or you could wait for a couple weeks to a month and the bugs will be worked out. I bought it the day after it came out, sat through the patches, and dont regret a instant!!!!!!

I must warn you: I have called off work just to play this game more!

Too bad they didn't finish the game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Great concept, terrible execution. This game could have been great: huge battlefields, combined armed forces, realistic combat... but the game just won't run. Terrible, terrible bugs keep it from running. Can't connect. Servers down. Yuck.

Do buy this game, but only AFTER the developers finish it--which could be anywhere from 1 to 6 months from now (June 18 2001).

Too bad Strategy First started selling this game aroun June 10.

WW2 gamer's dream. Rocky launch, but promising.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Battles rage for hours on end, some times even days, for simple control of a city. They rage over night, with tracers zipping past your face on the ground, in the sky, in armour, in planes, and in your barracks. All with hundreds to thousands of real life players.

Any World War II gamer with a brain should love this.

Most of the less-than-quick reviewers out there will compare World War II Online to their favorite FPS (Counter-Strike or Day Of Defeat). The sensible ones out there would notice two things: This is massively multiplayer - thousands on a server. This is a simulation - not "Rambo meets your desktop". And of special note, you have planes, tanks, infantry, and soon to be ships, all in one place. If you're a WW2 gamer, then you're obviously in heaven.

I play this game almost every day. I have 256 megs of ram, a mediocre GeForce 2 MX video card, and a 700 MHZ Duron. I do NOT have problems playing, aside from the server problems they are currently ironing out. From riding in the back of a truck and being strafed by a Spitfire (with 5 other human players with me), to engaging in over night defense of cities, tracers blazing, tanks exploding, planes going down in the sky - ALL IN ONE PLACE, I have to say...it's not what I expected it to be, but it's damn good enough.

In a year, I see this as big as most of the massively multiplayer games out there. Asheron's Call, Everquest, etc.

Buggy, unfinished product. Spend your money elsewhere.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game the day it was released. It has been almost 3 months now and the game is still a terrible mess. First of all, you have to download a 70+ MB patch!! That is a download that will take literally days on conventional modems.
Even with the patch installed, about 20% of the people who bought the game can not connect to play it (information obtained from informal poll at wwiionline.com forum).

If you are in the 80% that can connect, be aware that this game is a resource hog. Players with less than 512 MB of RAM will have difficulties playing due to extremely low frame rate. (I tested using a 900 Mhz Athlon, 512 MB Ram, Geforce3 and the average frame rate I get is 30 FPS in relatively empty areas! This drops to the single digits as soon as there are a few people around.). Also, even people with best gaming computers frequently crash due to lost communications with the game servers. Expect to crash playing this game at least once every 2 hours or so, and consider yourself lucky.

If this doesn't bother you, then good for you. However the game doesn't deliver what the box states either. There is no presistent online world, instead there are multiple servers which frequently reset leaving all gains void. There is no ranking system nor is there a supply sytem, and the game more often than not deteriorates to a mindless tank battle (affectionatley dubbed "Quank" as in "Quake" and "Tank"). The only part of the world that is modelled is BELGIUM, so forget about fighting anywhere else in the world. Despite of all the flags displayed on the box, you can only play either German or French/British. The US, Japan, Russia etc are NOT IN THE GAME yet (and might never be). Also, the much touted Navy is no where to be seen. Also missing are AA guns, artillery, heavy bombers, allied bombers etc.

Most attrociously however is the fact that you can NEVER have more then 64 people in your area. If there are more than that, some will randomly dissapear. It is especially diconcerting to get shelled by invisible enemies. Despite claims of "massive" engagements to recreate D-Day or Pearl Harbor, this will of course never be, unless only 64 people are participating. This really borders on false advertisement by CRS.

The atmosphere of the game is terrible. You can't immerse yourself in the gaming experience, mainly due to the fact that the graphics are extremely poor. Paper thin walls, trees fences and rows upon rows of the exact same facades will make you feel like you're fighting in a cheap movie set. The sound is also rediculous. You can sometimes hear vehicles that are 50 miles away better then something right infront of you. Ever so often, the sound will completely fail, or even worse get bugged so that you hear is a constant humming of an invisible truck. The only way to stop this problem is to restart the game.

The list goes on, but Amazon only allows 1000 words, however in conclusion this game is not worth buying. The only exception might be if you have a top-of-the-line computer, are extremely computer savvy, and are a fanatic WWII buff. Otherwise spend your money elsewhere.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you insist on purchasing this game, please note that the game requires its own CD key that will be registered using your name. For this reason, retailers WILL NOT give you a refund on this game, and CRS has expressively stated that they will not refund the game either, regardless of problems you're having.

Great Community, Great Game, Great Devs

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've never seen a game change so much over the course of a view years. It is almost unrecognizable from its bad 2001 release. The playerbase has grown some and matured quite a bit. There is no other game like it...imagine being a single soldier in the midst of the 1940 Invasion of France and the Low Countries.

Virtual Battlefield Bliss

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After a crummy release, Cornered Rat Software turned this title around. Now, this is by far the best game I have ever played.

Just to give you an idea on how large the scope of this game really is, the game-world is Europe modeled to half-scale. It's simply incredible.

You have to play it to believe it. It is more difficult than most games, and takes patience - because it is a more realistic battlefield simulation. This is not quake.

its the LARGEST online world ever made..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

its a massive multi-player ww2 sim
its the LARGEST online world ever made..
with thousands of players..
in game map here
http://www.tgpo.net/images/fun/SwgCompareSmall.jpg

1/2 scale of europe

it offers air land and sea combat and unlike bf42 it uses 100% real world data on modeling from weapons to damage

screen shots here...

http://www.gamescreenshots.com/smallthumbs.asp?category=pc&game_id=302

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/loadNews/833

if you want to see what its like in game check out this player made video

http://www.mirror.wwiionline.com/downloads/moviecontest/entry2.mpg

Highly Addictive and A Test of Your Patience and Skill

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing WWIIOL from just about it's public release and I find it to be both fun and frustrating. The fun is when you're in the midst of "action" and things are going on around you that make your heart skip a beat. You see tracers, hear the pounding of shells and machine gun fire, and just about feel the tanks roll by you. Working with a team is the best way to enjoy the game, and by joining a "squad" you can do just that. But you can "lonewolf" it too, and just join an impromptu group for a night of fun. The frustration (which lessens with each patch) is the lack of a complete set of equipment, the bugs that occur from time to time, and the amount of time it takes to find combat in game during off-peak times.

The price has come down now, so if you want to give it a go, I'd recommend it. A warning is that it does have high computer requirements (though not as high relative to the market as when it was released), and you'll want to have at least 512 Mb of RAM, and a 32- or 64-bit Video Card. Also, a joystick is a must.

Hope to see you on the virtual battlefield! :)

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