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PLEASE, JUST LET ME PLAY THE GAME!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This kind of game is right up my alley, I love a good WW2 shooter as much as the next guy. However the steam software is obtrusive and a waste of time. It will take you up to three hours to simply download the patches and software to run this game. It gives you the option weather you want t download the Steam software, but if you say no it simply aborts the game install. I gave this game a 5 star fun review because it is realistic, with beautiful graphics and good unit detail. The unit selection is good, and it is fun to have to change out the machine gun barrells in the middle of a firefight. The overall game gets three stars because of the steam software that runs on your computer weather you like it or not. Don't expect to pop in the disk and be playing in a few minutes, it WILL take hours. Overall a fun game with an annoying attached program. Play with patience.

Almost the Real Thing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I spent 23 years in the Army, and this is as close as it comes to the real deal. Especially fun online. Extremely good physics for tank battles, I was a gunner and then TC and it's almost like sending the real stuff down range. You can coordinate your moves with teammates and use REAL strategy. Act like superman, and you'll be superdead. Not much room to hotdog, unless you want to well, hotdog. You'd better have a fast system and connection, or you'll be cussing when some schmuck you have dead to rights nails you. Plenty of new scenarios/battlefields added weekly to keep your interest. But be careful, it's highly addictive!

If you love tank warfare this is for you

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Get this game for the tank warfare. I have never had so much fun and frustration in my life. Play it online and see how hard it is to survive!

An internet game masquerading as a stand-alone product.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: February 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Consider this review only if you are interested in a single person FPS game. Most reviewers seem to be playing online and it looks like a good game from that perspective, but not as a single person game. This review is not of the game per se, only of its misrepresentation as a single person as well as an online game.

I only wish I had read the reviews before I wasted my money on this. Judging from the box this looked like a typical FPS with single person and multiple person modes. It is not. It is an online Internet game with a single person practice mode. Installing it was a pain and loading it was an even bigger pain. It slowed down my system and caused all sorts of problems. I finally had to un-install it. Beware; do not buy this if you want a single person game. It may be very good as an online Internet game. If that is what you want buy it, but if you prefer single person games look elsewhere.

Very Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: January 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not disappointed in the game but the retail party that sold it!..This game was totally destroyed when I got it in the mail. How ever the cd's did work so there for I did not return it..because it was a gift for Christmas..

Top Notch Realism

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Have tinkered with this game off and on for a few months... but because of the learning curve and the lack of a TDM gametype ... Ishelved it for a bit..
Pulled it off recently and spent more time going thru the ins and outs of this game...
The realism is phenomenol!
Ballistics...player movement .... sound .... maps...vehicles...weapons...
awesome
The gametype available is a "base aquisition" type game... Both sides have various objectives to conquer and or defend... with the victorious team having attained a higher success rate at the end of the map.
The lack of TDM and the built in "classes" in each map still caused me some concern...'
However since this game is based on one of the most friendly game engines of all time... the Unreal Tournament engines .. i was able to begin modding the game to a more appealing format for myself... Currently running
an online RO server now...
Serious players will truly appreciate this game... large community online ...good future...

Worth the purchase

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Gameplay is slow compared to other FPS's but it's understandable. It gives you an experience no other game can and will require plenty of teamwork. I have to be in a certain mood to hop in and play, but it's well worth the $20 I spent.

Almost There

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fps fan and also a huge simulator fan so my fps's have to be realstic. Red Orchestra is three games in one Battlefield,medal of honor,and americas army.
Pros
- Intense gameplay

-Very realstic feel and look to it you'll almost break you chair waiting for the next tank round to load

-Sound fx is awesome

-Always changing many different ways to look at one battle

-online only real gameplay. Offline is practice only.

cons

-Gore Where's the Gore some blood and an arm blown off every no and then is not gore. when i shoot a guy he should have a bleeding hole of where i shot'em.

-Respawn I hate respawns. This takes the stakes and skill out of the game.
one life force's players to play smarter and better.

-More people 32 is not enough for these maps more like 64 or 128 would be great.

-smarter ai in practice mode they run right by me.

-to much tracers. The tracers look like medal of honor not real life. real life is one every five rounds and don't look like comets.

That's pretty much it i would recommend this game to any fps gamer it is truely fun and addictive and when you your done you will still be thinking of your battles and you can still hear the screech of artillary coming in.
A must buy.
-jack

LOVE or Hate

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

^. As my title says you either love it or you hate it. Personally after playing the free weekend on steam I don't like it. It is still fun BUT some of the realism takes away from the game. In some of the bigger levels you will find yourself walking for a while to get in the action along with these big levels comes the FIVE to SEVEN MINUTES to load one map. Maybe I am just not patient enough but that is pretty long. This game is for people who want a REAL LIFE breathing game. With no dot in your screen showing where you are shooting, Nades that send dirt everywhere, tanks that are unstoppable.

Pro:
The realism is very cool at SOME parts
The graphics are beutifal
The sound is great

Cons:
The loading times are insane
Laggy at menus and game sometimes and I have a very good connection
Practice Mode can be very laggy as well

No single player campaign..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm giving Red Orchestra a bad review as it is just plainly false advertising. I don't have high speed internet and bought the game in a local store thinking by looking at the case it had a actual single player mode... it doesn't. It did say a internet connection was required to activate the game, it does not say if you have 56K you will be downloading for 4+ days just to get a glimpse of the game.

I usually buy games for the single player mode as I don't have a choice of getting broadband where we live, I guess I'll be more careful when it comes to these kinds of products.

The game, once I got to it, was pretty cool but gets boring fast in the practice mode, there is no campaigns etc for a single player. I'd give the gameplay a nice score say 4 stars, if you got broadband this would definately be a good game to purchase. But they need to describe the game and the hoops you need to jump through to play it more thoroughly on the packaging...

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