Reviews

[u-s-e-r]

You kinda make it sound like Battlefield 3 is not going to be a valid choice for game of the year, let alone first person shooter of the year.

I've only played the Alpha test, but seriously, Battlefield 3 oozes of quality, from top to buttom.

It's no shame to admit that Battlefield 3 is hands down the better game over Red Orchestra 2, but you gotta remember that Dice/EA combo is giving them a gigantic budget versus what Tripwire can afford.

By no mean is Red Orchestra 2 bad in it's core gameplay, but it has a lot of launch problems right now.

Game of the year? Are you serious?

 

[GizmoTheMogwai]

you don't belong here

What? Someone not sucking up to Tripwire and giving an honest opinion is instantly a troll? That's pathetic to be honest.

 

[SheepShaver]

Dice know how to optimize their engines

Not to be offensive, but are you out of your mind? BFBC2's perfromance was terrible on release, with terrible mouselag. Same goes for the initial release of BF42. Oh, and did you already forget about the server browser problems in BF2?

 

[Reddog]

Thats kind of a bull**** rev to be honest...

I dunno I agree with some of it, namely;

- The cover system is too rigid and clunky to be useful or suited to this style of game. I don't use it, and knew it would be like this the minute they announced it (cover systems are always **** though tbh).

- The graphics while massively better than old RO are still nowhere near what UE3 can produce and run unacceptably poorly for how they look. I also agree on the animations, aside from the great third person movement animations everything else does not look as good as old RO (which had some of the best looking weapon animations ever).

- I agree the gameplay doesn't seem to know what it wants to be, several things are hardcore, like damage and dying. However the shooting with its lack fo real sway, instant aiming, zoom and focus is way too easy. It doesn't fit in my opinion.

I still like the game and will play the **** out of it but the reviewer there does make some fair points, even though the review itself isn't particularly well written.

 

[DeltaElite121]

I fully expect RO2 to be released on consoles and ;



A) Look better and run at an acceptable framerate

and

B) Be a downloadable title

I really hope this is sarcasm simply because the amount of controls/options there are would make it impossible for a controller. You'd end up having to dumb the game down, and they aren't going to want to do that.

 

[DraKon2k]

By reviews I meant critics reviews, not user reviews btw.

 

[Steezy_Six]

It's good, SP campaign is just MP with bots and some narrative though, I played about 5 minutes of the Spartanova(sp) SP campaign until I realised I could be doing this same thing but with real people and much more brains involved.

MP needs more maps, I thought we'd have a fair amount more maps than the ones that went through the beta.

Once the crashes is sorted out, then the optimisation. Hopefully they can start focusing on gameplay tweaks, I think the ranking system more or less kills mod support in the style that RO1 had so in general there needs to be more reliance on TWI to do things.

 

[vyyye]

You'd end up having to dumb the game down, and they aren't going to want to do that.

Definitely not, couldn't agree more. Imagine if RO2 forced you to map several functions to one key for example, that would be ridiculous!

 

[NinetyNine]

By reviews I meant critics reviews, not user reviews btw.

Critics can't review things they haven't used, so those are users reviews, and users are the harshest critics, ergo, you got what you asked for either way: User reviews.


Or did you only want reviews someone got paid to write?

 

[Nezzer]

I just don't understand how can someone say the graphics are bad, unless they are playing on low. IMHO the graphics on high/ultra look way better than CoD4/MW3/MW3 graphics.

 

[u-s-e-r]

I just don't understand how can someone say the graphics are bad, unless they are playing on low. IMHO the graphics on high/ultra look way better than CoD4/MW3/MW3 graphics.

Indeed, RO2 at least looks realistic. But each to their own, some people like to play war in a fantasy land instead of the real world

 

[vyyye]

I just don't understand how can someone say the graphics are bad, unless they are playing on low. IMHO the graphics on high/ultra look way better than CoD4/MW3/MW3 graphics.

Saying the graphics are better than the graphics of a franchise where the games have looked the same and ran on the same engine for 4 years isn't really saying much.

 

[Nezzer]

Saying the graphics are better than the graphics of a franchise where the games have looked the same and ran on the same engine for 4 years isn't really saying much.

I know, but nobody complains about MW3 graphics.

 

[Mormegil]

I fully expect RO2 to be released on consoles and ;



A) Look better and run at an acceptable framerate

and

B) Be a downloadable title

I'm sorry, have you looked at how much memory RO2 uses (due to the size of the levels)? I hope you have a console with 2GB RAM.

 

[MrGoat]

One of the best games ive played in a long long time.

Unfortunately the low performance and random fps drops makes the game just unenjoyable. I've just stopped playing until a patch comes out.

 

[Wavefunction]

Hey guys. Long time lurker, first time poster.

Anyway, I reviewed it today:

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad Review - YouTube

It's an initial review (hence the disclaimer) but a review nonetheless. I think it might be the first review as well. Enjoy!

 

[39th Guards]

The game is awesome, no problems.

The optimization problems kill the game.

When tripwire fix this problems we may be looking at the FPS of the year ( mw3 is the same thing over and over and i dont how BF3 will be )

Sadly I don't that that is anywhere close to happening. RO2 will most likely not get mainstream enough to garner the requisite attention to become FPS of the year. Battlefield 3 will probably mix up gameplay enough on the PC to drown out RO2 for any top spots besides realism titles.

 

[NinetyNine]

Hey guys. Long time lurker, first time poster.

Anyway, I reviewed it today:

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad Review - YouTube

It's an initial review (hence the disclaimer) but a review nonetheless. I think it might be the first review as well. Enjoy!

You lost me when you ran over the bridge. Go over the walls. The bridge is a deathtrap.

 

[Wavefunction]

You lost me when you ran over the bridge. Go over the walls. The bridge is a deathtrap.

The game hasn't even been out for 24 hours, give me a break!

 

[Mormegil]

http://gamers-underground.com/content/1149-red-orchestra-2-review.html

I disagree with the review on gameplay, but gameplay is subjective. He seems to like the arcadier end of the spectrum. That's fine, but that's not what I want.

I didn't have any crashes, so that won't bug me. My performance is great at Ultra, so I'm happy with that. Since the reviewers experience included crashing and bad graphics, of course he's going to note that in the review, and rate accordingly.