Customer Reviews

Soldner: Secret Wars

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I almost didn't buy this game because of the negative reviews. It seems that either people love the game or hate it. Those who hated it didn't seem to think it was fast-paced enough. This is why I liked it. The vendor has patched the game and corrected the problems other reviewers complained about. The graphics and gameplay were flawless in single mode and online play.

One reviewer complained that the area was too big and combat was to seldom, however, the maps guide your way to the objectives and if you follow the mission there is always action. I have played online popular online war games and this is quite different. One thing is that you can use almost anything. Second, you can destroy almost anything. Third, it has more strategy and offers more options for coordinated efforts among team members.

Some of the other popular games are blood baths where you rush in and try to kill someone before you get killed. You respawn and rush in again. The action is at a blinding speed and a soldier's lifespan is quite short. This game can be fast paced when taking an objective, but there is more time to think, coordinate an attack and set up a defense.

I have to give it 5 stars. It is slower paced than some games, but has many advantages that other games are missing. When I say slower paced I don't mean slow paced. There is plenty of action but you have time to plan your move before going into the action.

I used to be one of those rabid fans that awaited for this game release......

Wow was I disappointed! I haven't been this disappointed since I was 7-years-old, and I found out that my beloved Santa Claus wasn't real.

Some of the games largest attractors of the game was supposed to be the effects. Like collasping buildings and the overall environmental carnage that was supposed to be inflicted.

Unfortunately, this portion has fallen short in the way it looks graphically. There is no major smoke or debris from falling buildings or trees. The graphics are lackluster to explain it best in the Euro version. If my Geforce FX 5600XT can really bring out great effects from games like UT2004, Splinter Cell 2, Thief 3 and a freebie like Americas Army. Then I know my videocard isnt a problem.

Sounds, they are ok nothing really to swoon about. For a FPS set near a few year future of present time, I could care less about the sound effects.The only time I care about the sound effects is if it is in Star Wars or Star Trek.

Gameplay, well it could be better. At times the game was very sluggish and the vehicular controls are jerky and overeactive, and yes I know how a jeep and HMMWV, and M1A2 tank is supposed to respond, and no they dont turn that quick even at high speeds.The vehicular movement is jerky and incomplete overall.

Loading times are comparison slower to that of Battlefield: Vietnam, and UT2004. Where it takes less than 38 seconds to load up a game of BF:V and 21 Seconds to load up an onslaught match on UT2004. On Soldner, it took a whopping 1 minute 49 seconds on my 2.8E GHz Pentium 4 with over 1024MB of RAM!

Game and server stability are mediocre at best. I would hope this issue would be resolved since the demo had a likewise issue. But, apparently with this games euro rush it wasn't a factor that many quality control issues werent taken care of.

This review may be different with the release of the USA version, but as it stands the Euro version is incomplete. With any retail game you would hope that any game released is a finished product. We paid the money, it is the least of what those guys could do for us.

Yea, Yea, Yea make promises to me that you guys will complete the game after you release it. But, why? I am not allowed at work to only complete half of what my boss told me to do so. In college, I wasn't allowed only to hand in half a report and expect full credit for it.

Yes, it was stated that there will be later patches to fix the slew of bugs they never fixed. I heard the same thing from other devlopers from games like Starfleet Command 3, and after over 18 months still no "official" patch has been released to fix that attrocity.

My suggestion? Wait until the US Version, and some reviews and judge for yourself, but right now as the game stands...Don't waste your time, or hard earned cash, the concept is there unfortunately all it is right now is just that a concept. Soldner may try to be a goundbreaking game, but you may also have a groundbreaking headache to go with it.

I just hope these Encore and Wings can pull off the impossible and get this game working right before it hits the rest of the guys in the USA. If not, those devlopers and the game itself could find themselves deported to locations unknown.

I wish I could give these guys a good review, but as it is right now I am highly disappointed with how incomplete this game current stands in it's Euro state.

thier are alot of bad reviews of this game, i can only say they never updated thier games to the latests patch...soldier has gone though alot of patches to reach a point to were i think its a far better game than Battlefield 2 . the secound addon was free on thier web site...this allowed one to pick up the weapons used on the (expansion pack released in europe..aka soldner marine corps). now solder is next patch which is free will have a bunch of new weapons free....and maps ..THE ONLY PC GAME WITH ***THE B-2 BOMBER**** ...soo get a copy of this game before there gone...there going fast ..you have to play this game on online to enjoy it....the training missions are crap because soldner doesn't have good AI...its is osome online with real people as targets

Soldner: Secret wars is a great game. It does require that you have a monster PC to run it smoothly. I recommend having a Pentium 4 with AT LEAST 512 MB of ram to run it smooth. The game runs pretty nice on low video cards so that doesn't really matter what kind of video card you have.

What i love about this games is you can buy every weapon imaginable. The game has over 60 weapons in it. Everything from a revolver with a scope on it, to rocket launchers you've never heard of. Even more exciting, the game allows you to get 70 vehicles (Note that you can get more Cars, jets, and tanks than weapons). You can get the M1 Abrams, or just a tractor if you want cheap transpotation. Multi player may get frustrating, though, because peopole like to "snipe" you before you can buy your gear.

The game allows you to fly in maps with terrain that's over 20 KM large. You can fly a plane for forever and still see trees and hills passing by! The game gives you such freedom to go wherever you want. One of my favorite things to do is skydive from a helicopter into the enimie's base from like a mile high. Single player is a blast, too because your player has to complete little missions (Like capture a person, or destroy a target) And you win vehicles, and weapons to have more fun with. There is also a new expansion pack that includes desert missions. It is called "Marine Corps". It allows you to buy boats, and subs, and other SWEET things! It is not in the US yet. You can order it online, though.

Bottom line: If you like huge games, and have a fast PC, this game is for you! Don't listen to other people who say they hate the game and it is horrible, they probably haven't played more than 5 minutes - and don't know what they are talking about.

I play alot of PC games - this one blows me away. The detail and amount of weapons and vehic is crazy - the single player mode is kind of simple - but the real fun is playing online (no charge) you team up with people all over the world. I does take some practice to be able to drive and fly without crashing, but it's worth the effort. The programers thought of so many things you can do: drive cars, tanks, APC's jeeps, fly choppers jets planes and even VTOL jets, plant explosives with diffrent types of fuses (motion, time or remote) get a sniper kit with camo that makes you invis. get a commander kit to give orders to your team. swim, skydive. hundreds of weapons. It may be the best game I have ever had.

That's not a typo, the name of this game is actually Soldner. This first person shooter claims to have 2 million miles of terrain to explore.

The character creation is rather nice. There are amazing combinations of helmet, clothing, design, etc. to truly make a character that reflects your attitude. The chance of finding someone else just like you in the game is slim.

Game graphics are rather decent. There are various terrains, rain, snow, fog. There are buildings, forests, meadows. In addition, the terrain is deformable. You can shoot out the glass windows, blow up the buildings, knock down the trees. The buildings send up clouds of smoke as they fall.

On the downside, though, the graphics engine is very flaky. You can be driving along a road and POOF it'll vanish beneath your feet, only to reappear later on. It might temporarily turn at a 90 degree angle and then revert to its normal orientation.

Sound is reasonably good, with stirring battle music and sounds of gunshots and tanks seeming relatively realistic. There isn't much ambient sound to truly immerse you, though.

Single player is quest based, moving from task to task. You can take over tanks, jeeps and other vehicles along your road to glory.

In multiplayer, you're on a server with up to 32 people. Unfortunately the servers - including the patch server - seem to be randomly sick, making it hard to even try out the online gaming.

While this is a great concept, it doesn't seem to be quite fully implemented. The long load times, flaky graphics, and server issues keep adding 'speed bumps' in your enjoyment, which might ultimately cause you to just go play another game that works properly.

Single player doesn't work (officialy posted - on Jowood's tech forums), And multiplayer disconnects you after 10-15 mins. The vehicle control system is buggy and untested, and the animation (or lack of it is apparent in every frame), which isn't very fast either.

Couple this with very long loading times indeed, and high the probability of having to shell out for ANOTHER upgrade just to play this title, leaves you with this advice:-

AVOID THIS GAME LIKE THE PLAGE

Buy Operation Flashpoint/Battlefield 1942 if you want proper examples of how a tactical FPS should be produced.

Both titles can be picked up on this site for much less than this poor excuse of a game.

First of all ignore the several dozen people who have posted reviews for the game before the beta was even out.

Where to start...well first let's talk about realism, or lack of it. People can turn invisible, no instant kills, no ballistics, vehicles have arcade style controls, the list goes on. Every single gun from the Colt to the M82A1 has 100% accuracy if you are lieing down. In fact the only thing that associates this game with tactical shooters is bullet spread and the amount of damage done per bullet. That's about it, even Joint Ops has more realism and they purposely targeted the arcade end of the market.

The 70+ weapons and vehicles? wipe that image from your mind my friend, it's actually about 55 and some of the weapons were actually taken out (all the pump action shotguns). Some of the vehicles are simply redundant. for example there is no reason why anyone would use the Su37 instead of the Mig 29. They're exactly the same in weapons loadout, physics, the lot, except the Su37 has an exceptionally ugly model. All the weapons loadout for vehicles are the same. In fact the A10's GAU cannon has the same values as the light machine gun MG3. In real life the GAU is a 9 foot long 7 barreled anti-tank shell firing monster, and the MG3 is a relic from WW2 that would be lucky to penetrate a Humvee's armour. You get the picture. I could go on and on about the inaccuracies but we have a 1000 word limit.

That advanced destruction system is laughable at best. Crashing a plane fully laden with explosives causes no damage, but a single tank shell in the right place can make a 5 storey building simply disappear into thin air, with no particle effects or explosions to cover it up.

Customising your soldier? yeah it's fun but the 60000 combinations were taken out, and we were left with roughly 100. Viva le difference.

Sound- Incredibly bad. They claimed to use actual real life weapon sounds, but that's a lie, full stop. They use the same sounds for multiple guns and even the existing sounds aren't real because I actually know what certain guns sound like in real life. If they were good sounds to begin with I wouldn't mind, but they're not. They sound like they're from the early Tom Clancy games. There are no ambient sounds. And I promise, you will grow to hate the sound byte of some guy saying 'zzzoolldner' again and again.

Gameplay- for a mulitplayer game it's completely unbalanced. Snipers are all powerful. They are impossible to see and can kill you from up to 1000m away. You start with enough money to buy a stinger that can take down a $20000 chopper. and just to note, the countermeasures the devs promised us aren't in the game, so when a stinger locks on you eject, simple as that. you'll continuoulsy miss each other on the huge maps and spend half an hour just trying to find someone to kill. some vechicles+weapons are ridiculously overpowered and are dirt cheap as well, so why you'd bother buying a comanche worth 15 grand and has only 6 rockets is beyond me. All jets are useless as they use the same rockets the infantry have and have a lockon range of 500m, and jets travel a minimum of 200kph meaning you fly past your target before it even pops up on the screen. And another interesting bug, it takes a full minute to actually get a lockon, so even at a chopper's slowest speed you'll fly past the target before it paints it. the modding tools are quote 'unsupported', ie. don't work. and guess what, the devs decided they'd deactivate the anti-cheat protocols, so expect to see plenty of people with infinte money+health.

Singleplayer- doesn't exist. There is no 'dynamic mission generator'. In fact there is no AI. you get no team mates and all the enemy can do is drive round in circles and occasionally try to ram you with his tank. they can't even use weapons. this contrasts with their 100% accuracy when it comes to using rocket launchers, making tanks useless.

The graphics- mediocre at best. Ground textures are seriously low-qual. Nice explosions and water though. Pity they decided to leave out compatability with ATI! ATI for god's sake, the most used graphics card, and it's not compatible with the game!

Bugs- even if everything else I mentioned was fixed, this would still destroy the game. Bugs that were pointed out to the devs countless times are still there. Specifically that massive memory leak, so regardless of your system specs you will have lots of slow down+lag. It takes 8 minutes just to load up the menu, and 5 minutes to exit it. it's really frustrating to know that every time you click the mouse you are adding another minute to your load time. you will be crashing to desktop a lot. and just to note, the average load-play ratio is 4 hours of trying to conncet, 30 minutes of play (I'm not joking).

Here are the good things about the game:- the parachuting (very nicely implemented, the swimming (nice animations), and the Z9 chopper (love the spec ops look). that's it. enjoy!

Final word- you're better off just getting the demo. it has all the weapons+vehics that are in the final game and it has singleplayer as well. It'll take years of patching just o get this game up to spec, and given the developer's track record, it's not looking hopeful. Soldner is a game that is all idea, but never actually gives any results.

Despite some bad reviews by some people, this game is strictly amazing!

Firstly, I would not trust a review of someone that can't even spell! "plage" is spelled "PLAGUE" by the way.

Secondly, that review was obviously written by someone still running a Commodore-64 and a dial-up 14k connection!

Thirdly, I had to quit playing the game because it was SO addictive and was consuming too much of my life! If you want to have the best war gaming experience ever, pick this game up!

The graphics certainly are not as great as other games, but they are not crappy either! Considering this game has over 14 MILLION SQUARE MILES of NON-REPEATING terrain, the graphics are well justified! View the screen shots to get face view of the game play. It has SO many vehicles, jets, heli's, VTOLS, Tanks, wheeled vehicles, sidearms, grenades, rockets, sniper rifles, automatics etc.. that I cannot possibly list them all!

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Just check it out! It would not have been around for SO many years if it were not a FANTASTIC game!

After playing so many of the ghost recon, delta force and other games like that this was a little dissapointing.