Hour of Victory(demo)

[glazza]

Shocking all round ,avoid like the plague....you have been warned..:).

[Yoshimax]

I think if you're going to start a first play thread you really owe it to everyone else to justify your comments ;)

[Malc]

The game feels boring and nothing is interesting, allthough i did like the sound of the thompson.

Stick to C.O.D. 2 or even C.O.D. 3.

Annoying controls, and i found that you can just sprint through the levels and get to your objective, unless you have to defend your objective.

[anephric]

Yuck, analogue calibration is borked: Y axis is all slow and X axis much faster. And the scenery is sticky like glue made from horses' bones.

Beware. Take care.

[Uli]

oh my, another awful, badly executed demo. bodies and weapons disappearing, worst rifle aiming ever and not much to speak of AI. sterotype blend of characters, no german missions (as far as i know)... boring stuff in my opinion.

i think Eidos already came up with a very similar FPS called Commandos Strike Force in 2006. so this game seems even more redundant and pointless.

[mr_sockochris]

I'm a huge WWII FPS fan but this is utter crap. Maybe if it controlled anywhere near the level of CoD2/CoD3 it wouldn't be so bad but this has some of the worst aiming I've ever had the misfortune of suffering. Even PD0 controlled better than this and that's saying something.

[Dezm0nd]

I'm not a huge fan of WW2 shoot em ups and this to me is bloody awful, I was hoping for a step brother to wolfenstein (the only ww2 shooter i enjoyed), instead we got an abortion of what feels like a polished CoD 2 alpha.

Absolutely terrible, Midway, how did this get past the good ideas people? oh wait, cash, thats it.

[Sane]

Hour of Victory? You'd think by now they'd have run out of cheesy names for these games, but it seems WWII FPS developers always find a way to name each next game ever more cliche than the last. It's like they have some running gag for this among themselves :lol:.

[ExtremePabs]

has this demo been pulled??

[ChrisField]

has this demo been pulled??

Yes, but unfortunately they've put it back now.

[glazza]

Shocking all round ,avoid like the plague....you have been warned..:).

Thats why i could not be more specific in my first post Yoshi..as this demo dosent have one good thing to say about it and a million poor things that is wrong with it but peeps cant say i didnt warn them lol.

[MJ]

I shot someone in the head then quit before I even stepped out of the first room and deleted it straight away. Awful.

[watusi]

The best bit about this demo is that the developers keep going on about how the three characters all have different abilities. It appears one characters special ability is being able to open doors and anothers are climbing ropes, the final one can do neither. Awesome!

What a bag o shite!

[ShadowDancer]

Oh dear.

[ChrisField]

Yes, but unfortunately they've put it back now.

Well, Major Nelson has made a liar of me. I just thought Id download it after all the glowing praise, and I cant find it. Cant say im too fussed :thumb:

[Malc]

as this demo dosent have one good thing to say about it

...The thompson sounded good.:)

[ExtremePabs]

It still doesnt appear for me on the marketplace. Doesnt sound too good though

[ChrisField]

Apparently its going back up again today. But then I believe MN the last time he said that, so...

[Team Andromeda]

Remember people its only Beta code :). That said its hand down the worst demo I've played on LIVE, and the game it's self is the worst and most boring crap FPS I've played in years (MOH Rising Sun is better) and the controls are horrid . It looks and sounds ok, but thats' about the only good things I can say about it

[ezee ryder]

WOW! What a horrid demo, plays terrible and looks terrible. DELETED.

[Myth]

looks terrible

I thought certain aspects looked really good. Obviously it played horrid though.

[prinnysquad]

Chromehounds demo, for me, was worse: totally dull pedestrian crap. But then I love the Neroimus War, so maybe there's salvation for this bitch yet?

[Kotatsu Neko]

The aiming in this felt even worse than in Black Site. Horrible woolly movement with far too much acceleration and a bizarre imbalance between the Y and X axis. Renders it completely unplayable. Difficult to understand how stuff like this still exists, it's like Halo never happened.

Awful graphics too, just an ugly mess of mismatched textures and general scruffiness. What a waste of a great game engine. Midway shouldn't have released a demo, then perhaps they'd of got a few blind buys from COD fans looking for more WW2 action now that COD has somehow become a different game entirely.

[buzz711]

Look dreadful and plays even worse. Shame because i was quite lookingforward to this

[Leon Ahoy!]

The worse graphics I've seen for a long time. I know it sounds harsh, but when I was playing, my mind kept thinking "PS1" :s

Now, it doesn't really look 32bit, but it is shocking. All I can say now is that it's beyond a joke, and I'll leave it at that.

[Leon Ahoy!]

Remember people its only Beta code :). That said its hand down the worst demo I've played on LIVE, and the game it's self is the worst and most boring crap FPS I've played in years (MOH Rising Sun is better) and the controls are horrid . It looks and sounds ok, but thats' about the only good things I can say about it

"Beta Code" ... That's all I've been hearing for years when it comes to games that look and play really poorly.

It seems that 90% of the time, most beta demos do represent the final quality of the game. Of course, there are exceptions; like Halo, Forza1 etc... but they were early demos, not games that had releases fairly soon after the demo.

I constantly read: " I had hoped the final build would be better than the beta demo, oh well! "

[prinnysquad]

The worse graphics I've seen for a long time. I know it sounds harsh, but when I was playing, my mind kept thinking "PS1" :s

Now, it doesn't really look 32bit, but it is shocking. All I can say now is that it's beyond a joke, and I'll leave it at that.

Heh that is a bit harsh!

The graphics are functional, at best, but definitely not all that bad. It seems to me that a lot of people are taking out some kind of intense pent-up hatred of mediocre next-gen games on this unlucky sod. Don't misunderstand me - I won't be getting this game and it seemed very ordinary and at times rather poor. But it seems to be getting a disproportionate amount of loathing, more so than crappy, minimal-effort ps2 ports and dross like Superman.

Hour of Victory = whipping boy for crap like Call of Duty 3's failures.

[emalord]

And this should be the next-gen?
Next-gen *of what*, exactly?
It looks like first-gen of gameplay, controls, ideas and amusement.
Totally disappointing.

[saturn-gamer]

Well Tenchu Senran, Zegapain XOR and Vampire Rain surely got competition...

...in the sense of being among the crappiest 360 games.

[1P_King]

Not played a game this bad for a long time, truly shocking.

[wehrwulf]

cannot believe this is supposed to be running on unreal engine 3

[emalord]

cannot believe this is supposed to be running on unreal engine 3

That piece of crap called Area51 doesn't look much better.
In other words: unreal engine 3 doesn't make any miracle, its name is not enogh to make a good game, and without ideas and skills any game is just non-gaming.