Comments on: Iron Warriors: Yours For Shrapnel

By: pepper

pepper — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:53:23 +0000

Aaah yeah the memories. i always was feared in a A-10 or frogfoot, for i knew how to correctly turn into a target so that they had a great lead. Can you imagine 3 years ago BF2 came along? It feels like it was yesterday. Am i sounding old?

By: Serondal

Serondal — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:48:49 +0000

Sounds interesting. Gawd I still remember sneaking around the hills around lost village with a barret sniper rifle trying to get some kills :P

In my clan I was the artillery specialist, on El Alemein (spelling is probably bad been a while) I could hit the enemy base with the scud missle launcher within the first few seconds of the round starting and hit any where on the map with the MRLS at the second flag on command , also wasn’t half bad with the apache ^_^ One match 8 vs 8 I believe the first few minutes of the match I killed the entire enemy clan two times in a row with rockets from the apache allowing us to win that round handedly, next round they didn’t group so close together lol.

By: pepper

pepper — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:11:11 +0000

Yeah desert combat was great! Possibly one of the greatest mods of all times considering the impact it carried.

Forgotten Hope 1 was for 1942, and 2 for BF2. 2 is still set in the desert/Mediterranean area durring the early war years 1941/1942. There working on the new version that should be set in Normandy.

Desert Conflict was Desert Combat for BF2. But unfortunately it didnt carry a long life, even though the gameplay wasnt bad and it featured some classic maps from the old 1942 version like lost village.

Project reality is still doing extremely well for BF2. If you love teamwork and dont mind a game stretched out over multiple hours, having multiple roles and positions in a tank and specialized squads then i can recommend it very much. Only got the last version yesterday and it reminded me why its great. It doesnt feel like the rushed BF2 gameplay, but more as something that you would see in a documentary.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:51:40 +0000

Isn’t Forgotten hope the battlefield 1942 realism mod? That was pretty good, I never was able to kill anyone with a rifle but the tanks were very well done. I hated the strange arc you got when you shot a tank cannon in normal battlefield 1942, but it was still a lot of fun :) I LOVED Desert Combat. Shooting down a hind with an M1A1′s main gun because it flew to low in the distance made me feel like rambo lol.

By: pepper

pepper — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:09:01 +0000

With Forgotten hope, had some good tank combat in the Alam halfa sector, those pesky panzer know what dying is!

By: Serondal

Serondal — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:41:53 +0000

After looking at reviews on Tanksim.com T-34 vs Tiger looks GREAT, and it is made by the same people that made the OP game in question. Of course I don’t think you can get T-34 vs Tiger for the same insulting small amount of money :P

In both offers the graphics are vastly better than ww2 online so I’ll have to agree with Pepper here and advise against it until what you REALLY want is massively multiplayer tank combat. Also the point of exiestence mod for BF2 is freaking awesome as someone else suggested,.

By: pepper

pepper — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:18:02 +0000

You can play free for 14 days:

Once your free trial is over, you must purchase an activation key for $19.99USD to keep playing. Included in this charge is 30 days of game play. Following your first 30 days, a recurring subscription is required to continue play. The standard subscription is $14.99USD per month.

Im not saying its not a interesting concept, but if someone soley wants tank combat then i think there are better games to choose, offcourse thats what demo’s are for.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:14:13 +0000

I think you can play WW 2 online for free but you can’t gain any experience, which would limit what all you can do of course. The difference between it and the tank sims you mention is that you are playing in a real world setting that never sleeps, you’re not playing a single mission or a certain campaign you’re in the middle of a living breathing war that is constantly being waged even when you’re not there. You never know what to expect AND you’re role is just part of the over all combat, making you feel like you’re really a part of the war going on. You can let some infantry ride on your tank in between combat zones or shot down an air plane with your machine gun and know that too was another player :P You can even sink boats if you’re fighting near rivers (trust me I know, I got sank by a few tanks when I was focusing on naval combat)

By: pepper

pepper — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:19:19 +0000

Problem with WWII online is that it is rather pricey for a game. Although i think most subscription based games are. Most of those features you talk about are in many tank sims. So if one is mainly interested in tank simulators then Kharkov or T-34 VS tiger would probably be a better idea.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:24:06 +0000

Telling you World War II online (Battleground Europe) Is the best tank Sim you’re gonna get when you consider that you’re fighting against all human players! You can command a Tiger, a Matallida, a borrowed Sherman, all them tanks you love to command over a realistic land scape full of trees hedge rows hills and forests.

I don’t know any other tank game where you can have a crew of all players either, I may be wrong. But I played once where I was the gunner and another player was the commander/driver. Can’t tell you how exciting it was when he heard a tank but I couldn’t find it with my sights until finally BOOM be blow up and the game zooms out to show there was TIGER right next to us hiding in the tall grass . It’s gun was literally an inch from our turret I don’t know how I missed it.

I mean this is so realistic you have to turn off your engine when you’re in ambush mode because you can hear the tank’s engines from REALLY far away and their tracks make a ton of noise when they’re rolling. Angle of impact, armor thickness, location of crew, engine, gas tank, shells ect all come into play. You can be tracked so that your tank can only go in circles, damaged so badly that you can’t even fight back, but if you still manage to limp back to friendly base you can leave the tank and not get points taken away for dieing since the tank can be repaired! VERY detailed I’m telling you guys. It still has an active community last time I checked and is still getting updates.

What other game can you load on a paratrooper plane in England, fly across the channel and jump out of the plane in the middle of a hugh battle, land in a back alley way, capture a command post thus limiting where the enemy can spawn and allowing a place for friendly ground units to spawn in, turnin the tide of battle whilst doing so and then when you die do it all over again! I guess you could do something similiar in planet side but this is much more realistic.

Of course you could also spend 2 hours trying to attack a town only to get sniped 30 times before you can even see the enemy that’s shooting at you, but that’s all part of the fun. you have to learn to be sneaky, use cover, and spot enemies before they spot you.

By: AbyssUK

AbyssUK — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:42:29 +0000

Help me I bought peggle and peggle nights.. 6.99 for both on steam during the weekend.. i haven’t stopped playing….. i need sleep… must kill unicorn!

By: pepper

pepper — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:00:37 +0000

To many wounds to rip open. Which isnt good for sales. Offcourse a mod can always be developed. For those that play Battlefield 2, try the Point of Existence mod, it places the German’s together with the Americans against the Ukrainians. With i think mostly the same army as the serve’s could have had.