Monday, September 15, 2008

Video Game Review - Combat Arms

Ok cool, so I've finally taken the time to play an mmofps. Ok Combat Arms, it's essentialy a free. version of Call of Duty 4, although it's extremely scaled down the weapons suck ass, and the graphics look like a really bad PS1 original graphics engine. Ok really the game is fun the only problem is that compared to other online FPS', like GunZ, it's just not up to snuff.

Although it's not GunZ Glory, it's not without it's W1N P0W3R, (leet speak optional). The game, instead of needing you to pay with real cash for say FAKE CASH, allows you to get through the whole entire game and get to the top rank, simply using store bought items. You do have the option to pay for some items with Nexon Cash, which is kind of redundant considering you can, like I just said, play and get money to buy almost all of the gear with.

It doesn't really succeed with anything else, the game it's trying to rip off isn't being ripped off, it's just being acted like. COD4 has perks and you can chose what equipments you want, with Combat Arms you get the same thing without the perk idea, but you get ALOT of equipment. I mean a lot. Something I find a little pointless about the equipment is the sun glasses. The sunglasses do nothing whatsoever I mean nothing, they don't increase sight, zoom, or allows you to detect enemy health or anything, all they do is make you look cool.

You should also notice this game follows every other fps game, the range of grenades kicks ass. Instead of in COD4 where you need to be a pro linebacker to outrun the damn splash, you can walk outside or be a couple of yards away from the grenade to stop the fatal attack. I mean really if you've played COD4 the matrydom perk on Vacant or Shipment, the 2 most enclosed maps in the whole game, you literally can't walk around for 5 seconds without getting killed from the grenade splashAnd finally the number one thing that makes me dislike this game and any online fps, the controls suck ass. Ok heres how it works, left click shoot, right click zoom, scroll click melee, mouse movement moves camera, q and e to scroll from primary to secondary weapon, x for grenade, and w a s d to walk around. This game completely screws that up, heres how they do it, left click shoot, right click zoom, press 3 then shoot for melee, mouse movement for camera, 1 and 2 to switch from primary and secondary weapons, 4 for grenade then click fire, and w a s d to walk around. What the hell man yes you can change the controls around to fix it but who has the time to do that, most FPS players just wanna shoot a bitch.

Final Verdict:
Download it if you like COD4 but don't wanna play for Xbox Live, it's truly fun but doesn't try to hard, better choice would be GunZ or perhaps go pay 50 dollars for a Xbox Live Gold Membership you lazy.....

Score:
Cost - 10
Customization - 8
Combat Engine - 7
Controls - 5
Final Score - 7

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2 comments:

MANERS said...

gunz was crap.

MANERS said...

BTW: why dont you customize your controls. since its pc, you can do thst >_>