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Turning Point: Fall of Liberty Collector's Edition

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Here's the lowdown on this game. You will hear a lot of people say how much they hate it and what not. I will start out by saying that I liked the game overall. However, there are a lot of negative points about the game that I should also share with potential buyers.

Good points:
- The very first chapter of New York. You're standing at the top of a building watching the invasion unfold.
- Your first encounter with a paratrooper and sending him to the streets below.
- Shooting German paratroopers in their shutes.
- New weapons like the MP 50 with 50 round clip and built in flashlight, the infared sniper rifle, and scope-mounted carbine machine gun.
- Assassinating the false president in the White House.

Bad Points:
- No story line. You don't know what is happening inside the US after the initial invasion. Did the Nazi's win? Have the conquered the rest of the country? Did the US finally surrender under fake President Stevenson? What makes it worse, you paradrop into London when it's German occupied! What the heck?
- Movement is bad. You constantly get hung up on invisible objects.
- Having to climb ladders and shimmy across gutters.
- Iron sites on weapons. You end up having to aim for an enemy's legs and feet to hit them. Especially with the lever-action rifle.
- EXTREMELY long distances between checkpoints. You CANNOT save at all during this game. You just have to pray you get to a checkpoint before you're killed (which happens a lot when you're learning the gameplay.)
- Difficulty getting a grapple on an enemy when you're close.
- The ending of the game (what ending???)

I had to learn and react how best to use each weapon as you're constantly learning where to aim against your enemy. The lever action rifle had to aim at the enemy's feet in order to hit them. Also, it's almost impossible to hit with the Gerwerfer 47 rifle unless you're point blank.

After I learned how to play the game, I started to enjoy it more. The first Act in New York is awesome, but it slowly starts to go downhill in Act II in Washington. It's still fun to play when you're storming the White House, though. Act III is aweful as you're assulting the tower of London in German occupied Britian. Totally over the top. There is no way you would be able to do that with the Luftwaffe patrolling the skies.

Well, I've said my piece. Buy at your own risk. If you like alternate history, this game is worth the purchase. If you like first person shooters, you probably won't like this one.

Let's just start by saying this did not or even come close to winning game of the year the year of its release. Story is interesting with German Nazis invading America kinda like what if it were different, but the controls are just a bit off movment wise and I feel that's the first thing you need to get right in the game, but I have played way worse. Online play...well let's just say if your looking to buy a game to play online...well your in luck...because I wrote this review to tell you this is NOT the game your looking for. Not only is it only eight people online play but you'll be very lucky to find seven other people playing it to have a room. Graphics of the overall game are ok but I feel if you get this game at a steal price then go ahead if not head to your local rental store.

I picked up the Turning Point: Fall of Liberty collector's edition at gamestop for about nine dollars. Once I got to playing I thought this game would be epic, but I was let down. The missions after the first one were average at best. The guns on this game are different being as though their more modern WWII guns. The game features a pretty good storyline, but is very short. The mutli-player has been shut off so there is none of that. But enough about that the collectors edition comes with a steelbook case, a bonus making of dvd, and collectable artwork. If I were you I would just download the demo through xbox live and see if you like it, but thats just me.