Isonzo

Gioco da Verdun da quando è uscito. Se ti piace la Grande Guerra questo gioco è per te. Le mappe sono spettacolari ed è ben costruito. Certo, l'aspettativa di vita in gioco è decisamente breve ma il gioco, soprattutto ISONZO vale la pena di essere acquistato e provato.

Isonzo is a great game that improves on almost every aspect of the previous 2 games in the series. The maps in this game are deadset beautiful and the graphics are a massive improvement over the previous two games. Gunplay is tight and responsive, audio is great, and multiplayer is generally very fun with a good community. So why the negative review? Unfortunately, there are two massive issues with this game that make it hard to recommend despite me really enjoying it: 1. Every map in the game is now attack/defence, as opposed to Verdun and Tannenberg where the maps were for the most part evenly balanced and symmetrical. This isn't an issue in and of itself, but the problem is that every (and I mean every) map in the game is balanced in favour of the defenders. If you look at the global achievement stats, 20% of people have won 10 games on defence vs 13% who have won 10 games on offence. Games will often end with the attackers failing on the very first objective, meaning you don't even get to play 80% of the map. 2. The bots in this game exacerbate the first issue while also having their own problems. The bot ai isn't smart enough to attack properly, meaning that for a game that has a small playerbase where most matches end up filled with bots (like in Australia where there are bugger all players), bots often decide games. Playing singleplayer matches with bots is almost unwinnable on attack unless you sweat like a madman. The bots also for whatever reason don't take advantage of the new class system in this game. In the previous games all classes could be played by bots, including officers who would give orders and call in artillery. In this game, bots can not spawn as officers (meaning unless you play officer yourself, no artillery or gas is every deployed by the bots (the gas mask is literally useless in singleplayer unless you swap to officer and order a gas attack yourself). The bots will spawn about 90% as the basic rifleman and 1 or 2 of each of the other classes, meaning that bots almost never use anything other than the default weapons for each faction, which makes fighting them more boring than previous games. Another problem with the bots is that they cheat: they will regularly prefire you around corners, shoot you through smoke and gas that a regular player can't see through, perform ridiculous swivel 360 shots, and sometimes they will shoot you when facing a whole different direction. Keep in mind most weapons in this game are a one shot kill, so fights are often decided by who shoots first, which isn't ideal when the bots have inhuman reaction speeds. The way they detect players is broken and completely unrealistic. Bot pathing also isn't great. Bots will often run out into the open and completely expose themselves instead of using cover; just another issue that makes the game harder on attack. Essentially, making the bot ai better and more dynamic fixes 90% of the problems in the game. One final pet peeve is that custom games no longer allow you to mess with the settings without disabling progression. This prevents any sort of fun match customisation like you could experience in the previous games which still allowed for xp gain in custom games. I.e. reducing the number of defender bots and increasing attacker bots to actually balance the game will not contribute at all to progression. This is a dumb change that only harms the player. Hopefully all of these issues are cleared up for the next release, because when this game is firing on all cylinders it's genuinely fantastic, but the unbalanced maps and rubbish bot ai unfortunately make it hard to recommend for people like me who live in Australia where you won't find full lobbies. Still very much looking forward to the sequel Gallipoli, where hopefully these issues get addressed!