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What were the game developers thinking?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: April 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have purchased & played many games over the years, and have had some problems installing or playing some of them. Usually, if there are problems the developer supplies 'patches' or 'fixes' but I guess there are exceptions. I have a PC that exceeds all the requirements needed to play this game but the game barely starts and freezes. I have all the latest device drivers and have uninstalled & re-installed the game multiple times, and have tweaked everything, but still it freezes. Many individuals are complaining on the web but the developers are ignoring us. Once software is opened it can only be exchanged, so we who are disappointed & feel ripped off have no recourse. Game developers such as this should be helping but they are not, nor do they seem to care. We who buy games will remember this, and will tell others. What are you developers thinking? Did you even test your product on multiple formats before marketing it? Such a good idea with good potential for an EXTREMELY poor product. AVOID THIS PRODUCT AS YOU WILL BE VERY DISAPPOINTED & RIPPED OFF!

It's fun to play, ignore the storyline

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: May 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had no problems playing (3.0Ghz,1.5Gigs mem,Radeon9600). The story is bad! Real bad! The actors were reading a script and it showed. No german soldier speaks with a german accent. They obviously put this game out in a hurry. Models and shadows are pretty nice. At first I thought they were using the HalfLife physics engine. It felt similar. But if so, they didn't come close to taking full advantage of it. The energy shield is useful but not entirely needed. One could get through the game without using it at all. Parts are really tough, shooting planes down and shooting some germans (ubersoldiers) far away in the nighttime darkness. One annoying thing about it was that the AI would start shooting before you even came around the corner in some spots. This kind of forced you to use the shield. It is very linear, but aren't they all.

Bottomline: Fun to play if your like FPS, you'll finish it pretty quick. Storyline is horrible! But if your into re-animated soldiers from the dead falling in love this is the one for you. That was soooo stupid!

Some polish would be nice

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: May 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The gameplay was acceptable but that's where the positives end. The voice acting is the worst I have seen since the first games with voice overlay. It's odd that all the nazis seem to have some strange southern accent and don't at all seem interested in conveying any emotion. Character voice talent is flat and makes continuing the game very painful, mostly because you feel bad for the developer for putting out such a poorly polished product. Was there a storyline, I'm not quite sure but the characters sure didn't seem to care. They must have asked the janitors in the building to perform the voiceovers because they don't seem very interested in what they are saying. Loading times are excessive even on performance rigs and is somewhat crash prone. Just wait for something good to come out or replay something you already own.

Not Playable As Is

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

At the begining of the game the game begins to run in slow motion and you soon realize that this is not how it is suppose to go. Obviously there is a huge glitch at the start. Once they issue a patch for the problem, the game may be playable and a realistic review could be written. I have waited for this game for some time and am very dissapointed I cannot play it as it is.

Poor game sound keeps going out.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was not impressed with the game. The sound kept going out. Had to restart to get back worked for a while then went out again. Then I decided to take it off my computer. My advice is to look for a better game.

Hooray for a Steam-less FPS!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 31
Date: June 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ubersoldier is a decent First-Person-Shooter; made better due to the fact that I ACTUALLY OWN IT, unlike Half-Life2, SIN: Emergence and any other Valve Software controlled game.

For those who don't know: Steam is the new method Valve software has to monitor your gaming experience by selling you 1/5th of the actual game, then making you download the rest. To make matters worse, you have to ask Valve for permission to play one of their games by signing on on-line EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO PLAY THEM.

UberSoldier is a decent game with decent graphics and good game play, made better by the lack of police-state spyware like Steam.

So KUDOS to the makers of UberSoldier, for selling me 100% of the game - what I paid for in the first place.

Doesn't play

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought and installed this game only to never get to play it. I was lookin forward to this game for awhile and its a huge glitch.To start off with it takes three dayz to load and second it won't make it 5 secs in the game without freezing and having to task manger out ofit. I uninstalled and don't reccommend anyone to waste their money on this crap.

Its kinda like 3 1/2 stars actually.... Not the worst, but a competent shooter

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This poor maligned game. The folks who built it had some kind of a vision alright, but they could have used a decent pair of glasses to get there. Actually, they could have used a scriptwriter and a decent director. The voice over work is the least of the problems IMHO... Its what they're saying thats pretty bad, not really how they're saying it. I was expecting a train wreck, but it was cheap so I bought it anyway. And I was pleasantly surprised at how much fun it is.

As far as I can tell though, there's simply no real story, other than killing Nazis, which is always a noble pursuit. But in actuality, I can never tell exactly what I'm really doing.

On the pro side, the game has really nice dynamics, excellent scenery and the graphics are definitely competent, including the enemy AI and the animated characters. The cut scenes are decent, although I still have no idea what they are talking about. The weapons are competent, aiming is good, action is good, and health, ammo and reloads are fine. Gameplay is actually kind of nice, even though you never really know what you're supposed to be doing.

The designers of the game dynamics and mechanics knew what they were trying to accomplish. There are many of the fine gameplay attributes of games like Half Life 2 and Painkiller are in UberSoldier. Fortunately, there is not alot of stupid jumping (argh... this made Painkiller extraordinarily frustrating).

There are certainly elements of Brothers in Arms and Call of Duty in here for sure too. I guess one might say UberSoldier is a derivative work, or a blatant copy as many have pointed out. The energy shield is actually quite novel though, but besides that, there's not that much new here.

All in all, its a good, solid, competent FPS romp. If the people who built it had some decent creative talent and leadership on the story side, I'm sure they could actually build some nice games. And yes, the voice acting is truly bizarre. You actually cannot use it to figure out who is good or bad. Only Pariah is as bad (it might be even worse actually). Its a great bargain bin game.

Fun at times but overall not worth the buy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok graphically the game is sharp and the sounds in the game are pretty realistic and the gameplay itself is pretty good. Now the horrible downs to the game 1st the plot and storyline are shady at best and copy somewhat off of Wolfenstein secondly the voice acting is HORRIBLY CRAP! Also beyond the FPS there is nothing cool to add to the game the "powers" you get are mostly pointless and really dont add much to the game overall. If your rich and looking for a quick fix this is your game, if strapped on cash and looking for an actual good FPS then look somewhere else. Gampleay can be fun but gets repetative overall this is basically a stripped down FPS that you and I have both played before. Spend your money on somp else.

Here's two for flinching.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Oh dear, where do we start. My brother bought me this game on a whim because he found it for four dollars. Where did he find it? donno. But apparently four dollars can buy you one hell of a frisbee.

Graphics:
Obviously, the first impressions of a game are going to be the graphics. Being released in 2006 should give you a vague idea of what it looks like. It's kind of stuck between current and next generation engines. They just missed the mark. Not incredibly bad, but no wow factor, especially for today. Being able to see heat is probably the only notable thing about it. Think Far Cry meets Call of Duty... 1. Actually CoD1 looked better than this.

Story:
Laughable. Even for a videogame. I swear a 9 year old must have written this monstrosity. Something about super soldiers, rebels... and that Nazis have to die. I honestly have no idea what it is about. Honestly. I think you play as a german in WW2, but you fight against germans. That's about as much as you are going to get out of it. Then they go off and kill off the only character that you found remotely interesting in a weak firefight... but i swear you see him later in the game... or that may have been someone else... I don't know... all the character models look the same. But in all seriousness, they don't explain ANYTHING. It's a clusterf*#% of bull$@&%.

Game Play:
Run of the mill FPS. You run, you gun. You spray, you pray. The inventory menu is something like PREY where it shows you what weapons you have up top, but you can only carry one of a certain type of gun. That's lame. I mean, I want the cool heavy machine gun, but I only have 7 bullets for it, and I KNOW I'm not going to find any ammo for the rest of the level. So I have to stick to the gun that every german soldier that I encounter has so I have plenty of ammo, but it has terrible aim and I need to unload an entire clip into a guy to bring him down. Stupid. Just let me carry all the guns. The story is unbelievable enough; let me believe that my "super soldier" can rambo it and carry loads of steel. Also, the enemy AI is a tad too aggressive. Especially when you can spit more accurately than shoot. This is the first FPS I've played where aiming down the scope doesn't actually help. You walk into a room, or stand in front of a door, and you know a handful of baddies are going to run in, and they all know exactly where you are. Even when you are hiding behind something, they pour bullets on top you with pin point accuracy. Maybe I'm supposed to make use of my 'superpowers' or should I say 'superpower,' the time shield, an interesting concept. By pressing the Q button, I can put up a blue bubble around my character that stops bullets from reaching me. Okay that's pretty neat, but give me something else! Geebus I was bored with it by the second stage, in fact I forgot that I even had it because it only lasts a few seconds before it has to recharge. And what's with the HUD? I can understand the health and ammo numbers, but what's the blue bar? Does that have something to do with my time shield? What are the skulls and symbols for?! SOMEBODY CLUE ME IN ON THIS... PREFERABLY THE DEVELOPERS! and saving... don't get me started. I got hella far in a level, and had thought that I hit a check point because a small message appeared when I reached a certain area. But when I walked up a stair case some nazis shot something that exploded right next to me, killing me instantly. I thought to myself, 'okay, that's alright, the devs probably just wanted to make it fun by having me learn from my mistakes and retry the area knowing the ambush awaits.' However I was pleasantly pissed when I found that I had to restart from the beginning of the level. I shut it off and walked away. I can only take so much crap in one sitting. Is it so hard to make an auto save feature?

Level Design:
...or lack there of. Each location is tedious and awful. Some doors open up to rooms with absolutely nothing in them, no ammo, no health pack, nothing. Just some chairs, and maybe a window. They serve no purpose and in these types of games I don't exactly feel like exploring. This beats the doors that don't even open. I normally wouldn't nit pick at that, but when the doors that are painted onto the walls look EXACTLY like the ones that do open, it gets a little frustrating. Change the color, put a symbol on it, make it flash, SOMETHING. The general layout of each level is either predictable or awkward. Narrow alleys, maze like complexes, long stretches with no cover, it never ends.

Audio:
The FX is decent, but the voice acting is what I really wanted to rant about. This is some of the, no this IS the worst voice acting I've ever heard. I would say you need to hear it to believe it, but I hope you don't subject yourself to this game in order to find out. Just take my word. It lacks emotion, proper casting, and general talent. Some say that it is on par with Far Cry, but i respectively disagree. It's so far below, and I thought Far Cry's voice overs were awful. I cringe every time the protagonist speaks and the female lead does a wonderful job at making me laugh with every line. The Nazis don't help either. They sound remarkably like... Americans.

Bottom line, this game is not worthy of your time, nor hard drive space. Even if it were gifted to you, I would say it could be used for something else, like replacing that sugar packet that stabilizes your kitchen table.

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