My review (as a serious CoD gamer since CoD1):
The weapons:
Bolt rifles are almost useless due to them being a two shot kill from the torso downards (this was NEVER the CoD way of doing rifles). They have messed with an almost 7 year old idea that wasn't even in need of change.
Sniper is too slow in almost every respect, the zoom into the scopes, the bolt action to load the new bullet. The breath barely does any steadying of the Scope.
Semi autos dominate, especially the Gewehr due to it's serious lack of recoil and uber strength. Why have a slow and weak Bolt Rifle when you can use these bad boys?
Garand has masses of recoil and is weaker than the Gewehr so no need to bother with this gun.
SMG's are strange, sometimes they WTFSAUSAGERAPE and sometimes they barely kill one person. I've cleared rooms of 10 people with the Thompson and other times just wasted a clip on a Juggarnoob fag. The MP40 shoots quite slow considering and has some strange recoil. Not the best choice.
LMG's... lol... The BAR shoots at the same rate as the Garand, the Bren is a recoil less cannibalistic pwn cannon so your better off using that.
Grenades:
Severely weakened Frag grenades compared to COD4, much better IMO. Molotiv cocktails seem 'meh' at best and the Tank grenades are OK.
The Gas that royally screws up your vision and sensitivity is always fun, the flares are near blinding if you use them properly and the smokes PLAIN SUCK. No joke, the smokes are useless :/
Perks:
Consolised crap that should never have been introduced to CoD, fact.
If you don't use stopping power your a fool because your weapons are SO weak without it. Most of the perks aren't worth it tbh.
Maps:
Makin: Terrible map. Simple as that. People are near invisible on it, you can camp almost everywhere. It's too dark, SMG's and Semi's dominate this map. Everything is penetrable which is SO annoying, worst map in the BETA.
Caslte: Great SD and WAR map, love it. Has more structure and you can tell they put thought into this map. All weapons are effective on this map. Nice thick walls to take cover behind, being lamed through walls is NOT fun.
Roundhouse: The russian tank is buggy as hell, i jumped in and it started to fly around the map. NICE. Great map overall, a very Rifle dominated map with the Snipers being utilized on the walkways etc. Lots of close combat in the Roundhouse section of the map and around the edges.
Kill Streaks:
Recon plane: Too easy to get and the radar is just a copy of CoD4 and it does not suit the WWII era.
Artillery: I dunno about this, it sounds like BF2142 artillery and rarely does huge amounts of damage. It screams down in an annoying fashion and tricks you into its dangerous when it really isn't.
Dogs: An flamboyance that needs to be removed, it's too easy to get Dogs and they just distracts you from the core gameplay (which is lacking). They knife/bayonet on the dogs is buggy too.
Things that **** me off:
The sound, omg what did they do to it? I can't hear people next to me, i can't hear them shooting or anything.
Why can i hear Quake3 sounds as well, it's when bullets and nades hit metal and it very much sounds like Quake3's hit blip sound.
The **** poor Japanese in game voices.
Bullet registration is just as bad as CoD4 if not worse.
Bad review i know, was very rushed and this is a BETA so...
Not impressed with it at all, Treyarch clearly don't care about the PC because this is one pissbag console port. They added a friends system that is very cool but the core gameplay really needs work.
Call of Duty United Offensive tops this game by a country mile.
