Customer Reviews

Faces of War

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Great tactical game, where you control inventory and "man" a vast arsenal of equipment. To boot you can capture equipment from enemy and use it against them. The graphics are nice, and everything (but bunkers) can be destroyed. Nice strong missions, and no base management, just pure meaty tactical bliss.

What it lacks:
Teams don't carry over from mission to mission
No leveling your squads
Interface is not the most elegant

Despite these lowlights, this is a amazing game and not many these days offer this kind of tactical depth and fun.

For my taste there is too much to micromanage. The game play, graphics etc are very good however. Also, as others have said, this game is mainly for multiplayer online play. In the campaigns, The AI is fairly robust. If you like to micromanage everything I think you will like this game, if not I'd pass. I prefer Company of Heroes.

I really appreciate where the developers were going with this game, but I think they missed the mark by a bit, much like the soldiers in this game often do.

Pros:
*Very good graphics!
*Decent music & SFX!
*Fairly easy to master interface!
*Lots of content & Replayability!
*VERY strategy based (this can be a con, too, I suppose, depending on your taste)

Cons:
*Difficult to tell who's on whose side!
*Impossible to bond with your crew since none carry over to other missions, nor are any of the much needed RPG elements that would make this game more interesting and enjoyable.
*Repetitive, annoying voice acting.
*The interface is fairly easy to master, as I said, but it's very badly designed nonetheless.
*Not nearly as "IN THE ACTION!" as they'd have you think.
*It's basically like every other boring war strategy game on the market, except you only control a few soldiers and they can pick up some objects and have a few more in-depth actions. WHOOOPEEEE.
*Some missions are TERRRIBLY DESIGNED!

Overall, I'd say leave it on the shelf. They didn't really bring anything new to the field. If you're looking for an innovative, exciting FPS/RPG/Strategy feast, look elsewhere. This is just another point, click, watch, strategy army game. Not bad, but not remarkable either.

On one final note, I went through a mission, and, near the end, realized that I'd killed all of my ally russians thinking they were enemy germans. Hm. I also watched one level mission play itself without me. Hmmm.

Faces of war, whose sequel is Men of War is a Company of Heroes type game with a lot of environmental destructibility.

The upside is that the ability to repair vehicles and equip men is entertaining, the downside being that your equipment vanishes between battles, and the AI for your squadmates requires you to micromanage them to an annoying degree.

The sequel to this game titled Men of War unfortunately expands on the frustrating parts, and doesn't bring enough new content to make it recommendable. Numerous situations in which the player's units are excruciatingly difficult to arrange in a non-suicidal way make it more frustrating than fun.

While the graphics are modest, they do not appear dated.

Just by looking at the screen shots of the game its men of war but its not but it is??? Anyway overall its a good game if you like company of heroes with alot more micro managing. Controls are good except for some AI issues when your troops decide to take on a tank by themselves or charge at a mg nest...Ahh no!! what are you doing...Men of War this years Faces of War takes care of a couple of those flaws...Graphics are good not overally impressive though..Sound effects are well done except for the repetitive voice overs...all in all a nice pick up for 10 bucks...

I got this game for cheap, so I didn't have high expectations. But it's been a lot of fun.

Each map gives you certain objectives and a selected group of troops to start with. The idea seems to be having your troops work together, but I found that to be a pain. While you try to control one soldier the others won't stay put. They run around, get in the way, and often get hurt. I usually park most of my troops in a corner, vehicle or building and complete the mission with one or two of them.

Almost everything in the game is destructible, and there always seems to be plenty of heavy weapons and extra ammo lying around. This is a great game to play after a stressful day at work. I just crank the speakers up and blow the heck out of everything.

The graphics and sound are pretty darn good, and the gameplay is a blast. I really enjoyed this game.

I've played various PC War games- and this by far is the absolute worst. The design of the game is more like what you would see in the mid 1990's instead of ten years later. It's an awkward, poorly controlled layout with functions that work sporadically. One thing that constantly drove me crazy at the beginning of the game was this hand feature that is supposed to pick up guns lying on the ground- but the hand actually won't pick the gun up unless you make about 20 attempts. Stupid game. I only paid about 15 bucks for it but I should have stuck a match to the money. Avoid at all costs.

Great ideas and technical features, but gameplay isn't really enthralling like some other WWII real time strategy games. Even with a direct control mode, it still feels like you are detached. But over all, I like the way the developer was going, the game has deep features like being able to collect all kinds of things.

The two stars are only for its graphics.
If Company of Heroes rate 4.5/5 this game rates 2/5.
Except for Graphics, the rest of the game is BAD.
The interface is clunky.
You cannot save your missions, you cannot exit and resume.

This is just an average game. Moving around the screen is jerky on my computer.