Customer Reviews

Hour of Victory

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

I bought Hour of Victory today and I played through part of the first mission and so far I like the game up to a certain point. I noticed right away the game has some good points and it has some bad points.

First with the good points. The graphics are really good and the enemy soldiers acts just the way you would expect them to. They run and hide for cover whenever they can. It is not real easy to get past the enemy soldiers. The A.I. is not too bad. At the beginning of the game there are three different soldiers with different skills you can choose to play throughout the game. You can hit the enemy head on with one soldier who is expert at running and gunning. Or if you want you can choose another soldier who is a expert with a sniper rifle to climb up on a rope to a building roof top to shoot down below at the enemy. Or you can choose another soldier who is an expert at sneaking up on the enemy to cut through barb wire and pick the locks to open doors to buildings. Each soldier has special skills that is unique to that particular soldier. You decide before the beginning of each mission what soldier you want to be in the game. I also like the background music in the game. It really adds to the atmosphere.

Now for the bad points. The game is not perfect. The game developers need to come out with some patches to fix Hour of Victory not to be just a good game, but to be a great game. I hate how game developers show you screen shots and game videos of what the game is suppose to look like and then when you buy the game and start to play it you find out the game looks and acts totally different. The first thing the game developers need to do is do away with the gigantic weapon's crosshair circle that is permanently in front of you every where you go. You can't get rid of it. It is very annoying to have a gigantic crosshair circle in front of you everywhere you go. It ruins the game because the graphics are great and then you have this stupid huge crosshair circle that is constantly in front of you blocking your view. I didn't see this gigantic weapon's crosshair circle in any of the game's screenshots or videos. So why put it in the game? I don't get it. Second, give the player a choice on how to set up your Xbox 360 game controller. I don't like how the controls are set up now on the game controller and you can't change them. When I'm using a weapon, I like the aim button for using your iron cross sights in front of the controller. I don't like the way it is set up now by pressing the right stick down to try to aim a weapon. It is on the same side as the firing button on your controller. You can't change it. What is up with that? On the main menu in the game where options selection is, you can't really do anything to change the game. In fact there are hardly any choices at all to change the game settings. It almost feels like the game developer are saying your going to play the game the way we tell you to and you can't change anything. Hey we're not babies. Let us have the the options or choices on how to set up and play the game.

Game developers need to give a player choices on how to play a game. Let the player decide how they want to play the game. Don't force the player to be stuck playing a game one way and that is it. I recommend getting Hour of Victory only after the game has been fix with patches. Playing the game the way it is set up now is way too frustrating. I love World War II games as long as there done right by the game developer.

(Quick Update: I contacted the game publisher Midway to see if you can change anything in the game and they told me that you are stuck with the game the way it is. I am very disappointed. It is really sad. The game had so much potential. This will be another game that will be hitting the bargain bin in the near future.)

What this game does is give you a small taste of what is coming out later on this year when on August 28, 2007 Medal of Honor: Airborne comes out. Now there is a game that looks like it being done right by the game developers. That is definitely going to be one of top games of the year. I can't wait for Medal of Honor: Airborne to come out. Even though Hour of Victory has it faults, I guess it will just have carry me over until Medal of Honor: Airborne comes out later on this summer.

This game is terrible. I was looking forward to a new name in World War II shooters, but this is just more of the same done worse. The controls were a little annoying, but you'd get used to them. Graphics are no where near as good as they were saying they would be. Missions were boring and character specialties (Sniping, stealth etc.) were more a nuisance then a fun addition to the genre. I'd suggest picking up Call of Duty 2, its half the price and at least 5 times as good.

No ammount of hoping and wishing for a new quality game in this genre can change the utter piece of cr*p this game is. After just a few minutes I realized what HOV was, but forced myself to play an entire hour, not to be sure, but because I so much didn't want to to have wasted $60!
In over a dozen years of gaming, this is the first time I asked for my money back because "this game bl*ws"(thanks EB). Next time I'll believe the online peer reviews .

my title says it all. thank god i rented this game instead of buying it. the only reason i gave this game 2 stars is because of the graphics. when the demo first came out on xbox live marketplace, i gave it a try and the gameplay was horrible. when this game was released i gave it a rent. i played for about 1 hour, then took it back the next day. i really tried my best to like this game. take my advice, if you want to give this game a try then rent before you buy.

Hour of Victory is an FPS that tries out the whole diversity with the characters pitch, and the awesomely derivative dialogue. The game is basically a weak FPS, with no real point and sense of what it wants to be, with that said, it still does have some value. You can get some easy achievements, and it only cost me $12, so no real loss. Basically, this game is a very linear, short, and generic FPS. If you see it for cheap maybe buy it, but dont expect anything great.

Hour of Victory aims to be a Call of Duty knockoff. It fails miserably. Online play is abysmal and after a few missions of the campaign you just won't be able to take it anymore.

Do yourself a favor and buy a different WW2 FPS, or rent this.

This game is aweful. The AI sucks, the gameplay sucks, the graphics arent great, the controls suck. It is dry and boring. This is the quality game of something you would find in a bargain bin for under ten dollars, and I'm sure it won't be long before it ends up there. With all the great shooters out (and coming out) I would highly reccommend to all gamers to stay away from Hour of Victory.

I was stuck in Iraq with nothing else to play and I ended up with this game. I still didn't get past the first mission. It was the worst FPS I have ever played. The music is annoying; you're very limited on where you can go and how you can attack the enemy. I understand linear game play but this is ridiculous. I have to be one character to cut the barbwire or to crawl through the tunnel and I have to be another to get to the roof. The fact that you are VERY limited by the character you choose is the worst part. Why can't I pick up a sniper rifle? Why do I have to stay on the ground? I do like the AI, the enemy does become quite tenacious at points and they will not just stand around in the open when you shoot at them. This is the only good point in this game. I can't believe that this game has been allowed into production. Stick with COD and you will be all right.
Graphics are alright, nothing too bad or good about them. I do like the fact that when a bullet hits a building you get a puff of dust but there is not puff of blood when you hit a Nazi, so again not bad but not good. Your friends are useless when it comes to battle but so is everyone else in every other FPS except COD 4(Those SAS guys are good!).
All in all the game is not as good as anything else out there; if it was the only game out there we might not complain as much. There are just too many good FPSs out there for a game like this to be rated anything higher than a 2 and that's if you actually like multiplayer online parts. Don't waste your time on this one or your money.

This game is horrible, I can't belive I wasted 20 minutes of my life and 60 dollars playing this! don't buy!

the game isn't the best ever but good deal for $20. Fun if you liked call of duty. Although game IS trash dont buy borrow from a friend. Is quite entertaing though because of brain dead AI