#Ww2 online trial

If you have high-speed Internet access, you should be one happy soldier. There is some lag, but not enough to discourage me from playing. At first I was worried that there would be too much lag for me to really enjoy the game, but I was pleasantly surprised. I would also like to point out that when I played this game for review, it was done on a 56k modem.

#Ww2 online trial

You do get the first 30 days as a free trial to see if this is something you'll want to play on a regular basis, so it's not like you're signed up for life. I should also mention that, the company running the servers for this game, charges a fee of $9.99 a month to play WWII Online. When there are lots of people playing and people want to help each other out, this game is a total blast if no one is playing or if the players just don't want to cooperate, then the game is very boring. This game's success depends on how many people Strategy First can get to participate and the type of people who play. The only time I found the game lacking in zest was when players were unwilling to cooperate with each other. I would hear desperate radio calls for help from other players and would immediately try to find out what town they were fighting in so I could come to their aid. If you're playing as infantry, you'll probably wind up using the keyboard and mouse together, which works great if you're used to playing first-person shooters.Īfter mastering the controls, I found myself constantly getting sucked back to my computer chair, wanting to check in and see how the battle was going. Even if you are using a joystick you will still have to learn a few keyboard commands, but the game is much more enjoyable with a joystick. I recommend using a joystick if you plan on playing in a tank or any other type of motor vehicle the same can be said for all aircraft in the game. The controls for the vehicles and infantry take a bit of practice. If players don't work together they'll find themselves constantly trying to retake towns or get pushed right off the map. The game progresses as the different powers (Axis or Allies) take towns, supply depots, and control buildings. Just remember there are other people out there itching to kill you. Once the game is loaded you're put in first person view and the countryside is yours to drive, walk, fly, or crawl through.

Once you've picked what you want to be, the game will load and you will find yourself at a staging area where you can meet up with other players to form a battle plan or check your map to see where you need to go. What is really cool is the option of being able to join other game players and operate a tank as a crew, instead of trying to do everything at once by yourself. You can be a pilot, infantryman, tanker, troop transporter, or artilleryman (more types of weapons and vehicles will become available as the game moves on). The war is constantly evolving whether you're online or not.Īfter picking which country to fight for, you then proceed to the screen that lets you choose which branch of the military you want to play as and what type of character you want to be. Because battles are taking place all the time, even as I write this review, the next time I log on to play the town that I fought so hard to capture just might have been taken back by other people playing online. I must note that this is an awesome part of the game. After that you will access a map to see where the battles are taking place. You, the player, get to choose which side you will fight for, Axis (Germany, and later on Japan) or Allies (Britain, France, USA, and later on Russia). The game is set in the spring of 1940 when the German army began its onslaught of terror and destruction. If you still don't understand what this game is, think Everquest but with trench warfare, heavy artillery, strafing runs from airplanes, massive tank battles and my personal favorite, the 'lone sniper.' So grab your combat boots and meet me at the next section, you wet-behind-the-ears recruit - we've got a game to review. Welcome, my fellow gamers, to the new massively multiplayer game called WWII Online: Blitzkrieg, where you and thousands of players from around the world get a chance to see what the WWII front lines were like and maybe even change history a bit by stopping or slowing down the German forces.