Turning Point: Fall of Liberty

by Codemasters

Product Features

• Fight the Occupation in New York, Washington DC, and London. Witness the Third Reichżs epic takeover of America and participate in intense, nonstop action against a backdrop of globally recognized landmarks
• Make a difference as an American Resistance hero and employ guerrilla tactics to outfl ank superior enemy forces. Take advantage of a unique grappling system featuring environmental kills, quick kills, and human shields.
• Participate in epic, cinematic gameplay from start to finish with this best-in-class First Person Shooter gameplay from SPARK. The soundtrack is from renowned video-game, TV and fi lm composer Michael Giacchino
• Play online in Deathmatch & Team Deathmatch modes and play as either Americans or Germans. 8 players and 4 maps - range of weapons from pistol to machine gun, sniper rifle and rocket launcher

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000R2QSTI
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches ; 6.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 28, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,439 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC | Edition: Standard

Delivering both wartime authenticity and a fresh perspective through an intense, action-driven storyline, Turning Point¿: Fall of Liberty makes war personal and relevant. Presenting this scenario as a powerful and realistically crafted alternate history, Turning Point¿: Fall of Liberty delivers an explosive First Person Shooter experience in a world where famous real world locations appear startlingly different under Nazi occupation.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars FALLING POINT, February 29, 2008

By 

NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (Video Game)

It is said that the road to hell is paved with the best intentions. That maybe explains why the road to gaming mediocrity is littered with the relics of games with high ambitions and low production success. Unfortunately, TP:FoL is the latest addition...

I am a sucker for alternative history games (such as the exceptional WARFRONT and IRON STORM) so I really wanted to like TP:FoL. The story explores the repercussions of Winston Churchill actually getting killed when hit by a NY cab in 1931 (instead of surviving with a life-long limp). Consequently, England never prepares for the Nazi invasion and succumbs seven years later. But the Nazi are insatiable. After consolidating their European conquests, in 1953 they (together with their Japanese allies) invade the US. And this is our hero's moment to shine.

You fill the shoes of a blue collar worker who has fate drop on his head in the form of a German paratrooper. He kills him and grabs his weapon. The rest is up to you. From NYC to Washington, DC and from there on to London his place in history awaits him.

The weapons (from machine guns to tanks) are a mix of old and new. The new are reconstructions of late WWII prototypes that never had the chance to actually be developed. And that (together with the interesting background story) concludes this game's good points.

Controlling the above mentioned weapons is not an easy task, and the learning curve never seems to leave the ground. Every weapon handles differently - but not in any realistic (or even logical) way! Heavier weapons should be harder to aim, but exactly the opposite seems to be true.

Graphically, the game is still in...early beta. I am being overly generous! This is a First Person shooter - and yet every time your character uses a ladder, a Third Person perspective creeps in - ruining any immersion achieved. Your character can carry up to two guns - which, nevertheless, mysteriously disappear when the Third person perspective appears. Bad design, pure and simple.
Both the backgrounds and the environments as well as the explosions are well bellow par. And gore fans, be warned: no matter how many new holes you tore on the Nazi bodies, no blood will ever come out (no, there is no gore-toggle option, I checked). As to the bodies, they disappear a-la 1995 fashion...
And do not get me started on clipping and stuttering.

All in all, another overhyped game that fails to meet expectations.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Its good, but not great, February 28, 2008

By 

Tech Guy 0978 "Tech Guy 0978" (Acworth, GA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (Video Game)

I really had high hopes for this game. The plot looked good and the graphics looked good to. But after buying the game at least the idea is good. The graphics for the pc version are nothing to get excited about, there are no tweaking options except high, medium and low. Clearly this is a console port and thd PC version looks as if it needs patch out of the box. Some animations are just buggy and weird looking and it does not play smoothly at times. All in all its just a average shooter.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as bad as everyone says, June 22, 2008

By 

Matthew Maples (Oxford, MS USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (Video Game)

First off, I would like to say to all the people who gave this game 1 or 2 stars just because it doesn't have the best graphics, or perfect voice sync, or *gasp* blood and gore, you bloody well should have known better due to the fact that this game is rated T and does not mention gore, and the X1300/GeForce 6600 graphics card means no DX10.

Now then, about the game. It is your standard genre "go there and complete this objective" war game, which is what you would expect from a war game, having it to where you could go anywhere and do anything would make this more like Doom 3. You can only have 2 weapons at a time, and like in Halo, there are American weapons as well as German (Vampir!) varieties, each with their own pros and cons, such as the machine guns being great at close range but not so at long, which does help add in a bit of realism. Of course, you actually have 3 if you include the ability to turn a live enemy into a meat shield and use his pistol.

Controls are the standard WSAD + mouse arrangement you find in most FPSs now days, and they are remappable if you wish, or you can use the Xbox 360 Controller For Windows if you have it.

Graphics are not top of the line, but for those of us who know what a game really is, its story and not graphics (remember the classics Pac Man, Defender and Final Fantasy I all did it with 8-bits or less, and new classics such as Doom did it in DOS). However, the weapons you wield are surprisingly detailed. Also, you have to remember these original console games MUST meet certain requirements, and the Xbox 360 and PS3 are NOT the best in the graphics department, our computers can have 4-way SLI or Crossfire and a Creative X-Fi and 16gb of DDR3, but consoles cannot. Either way, they still do a wonderful job.

Music is wonderful, lets leave it at that. No MP3 folder so we can't listen to it separately.

Now, the other cons...well for one there is the Loading every so often, back from the console version, which can get annoying, but nothing so bad its detrimental. The 1024x728 res limit is more annoying, but not to much so. That's about it.

This is a wonderful game, sure it is not DirectX 10 with 7.1 surround sound, but great graphics and surround sound do not a great game make (Oblivion taught us that), it is the compelling, somewhat ironic story of an average joe defending his country which makes this a game worth playing. And like it says in the manual, "You won't find any body armor or health packs in this game - this is war!"

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