There's no shortage of Free-to-play shooters scattered across the interwebs, that's for sure. However, Online Warmongers Group Inc. (longest studio name ever?) is attempting to throw one more in the ring with their upcoming free-to-play TPS War Inc. Battlezone, now in open beta. Featuring up to 64-players online, War Inc. aims to raise the bar for F2P games with every intentin of delivering "a premium online game experience in a F2P package."
A big focus in War Inc.'s development has been on avoiding the, as they put it, "pay-to-win mentality." In playing other F2P titles, you'll undoubtedly notice that players willing to pay will more often than that come out on top. Online Warmongerers Group is putting a greater emphasis on skill and team-based, tactical combat. As we've heard though, war never changes.
As per Valve's decision to begin supporting free-to-play games via Steam, War Inc.'s open beta will be available through the service as well as IGN's Fileplanet and the game's official site. I've yet to see it available on Steam, but I'll be giving it a shot as soon as it goes live.
If the game is anything like that sniper montage then it should be pretty bad. Sniping looks ridiculously easy, movements seem last-gen, and the sounds seemed atrocious. Of course, the sounds and movements are all cosmetic, but the gameplay perspective of it with the sniping looked way too easy since there was little to no steadying (holding breath, etc), little to no recoil, aiming looks ridiculously easy whether standing, prone, or squatting, etc. I don't know, I guess I'm looking for more than what is to be expected from a F2P game.
Also: Just downloaded this. Its pretty bad. Not *terrible* but not really worth any time. Graphics are awful despite the "high" requirements (meaning it looks like it could run on a 5 year old comp), sound is awful, and mechanics are decent but nothing special.
I remember downloading this using some Fileplanet beta key and then deleting the install files yesterday after never having installed it. Don't see how I'll ever get over the loss.
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