Recent reviews by ✠ Bear ✠ | 99th HC

If you have been disappointed by Total War because of bugs, a-historical game play, and predatory monetary practices, this is the game for you.

If you have never played Total War and you love strategy and/or the 18th century, this is also the game for you.

The game runs great, the customization is the best in any game in this genre, the game-play is tough, but not in a way that feels like cheating (enemies don't have hidden stats are simply increased if you increase the difficulty). You have to plan your course of action on the strategic map and the battlefield, but its not so complicated that someone new to the genre (or time period) wouldn't be able to quickly pick up and enjoy.

Probably the best $30 I've spent in a long time. Hope to see more content from it in the future.

Fantastic game.

(Edited to positive now that SONY reversed their PSN acct requirement)

We dive together or not at all!

Best game of all time.

Firstly, I wish I could give this a rating, not just a thumb's down, because I'd probably say my experience is mixed, but that's on steam's end.

I'm a seasoned Verdun player, been playing since Verdun released, I have a ton of hours on Verdun and Tannenburg, both games are highly enjoyable and offer their own unique ways to play. I'm a huge fan of this series.

Alas, Isonzo. Firstly I will start off with the positives: the overall aesthetic of the game is great. Scenery looks spectacular, I like the varieties of weapons (I assume late war stuff is coming later tho lol), and its also touched on a largely forgotten part of the war. I also really like the realistic and historical ways players can customize their individual soldiers, that is probably my favorite addition to the series so far, you should add that to the previous ones if you can.

Negatives: its largely game play for me. I have way less fun in this game than I have in the previous two games. Granted its a new game with new features, but even Tannenberg I picked up pretty fast and got comfortable with it, basically a less static version of Verdun. Isonzo on the other hand, I leave every match feeling more frustrated than satisfied than I do in the other two xpacs. The first thing I noticed is that aiming and shooting feel generally more clumsy and slower than in the other two games. For some reason in Isonzo, targets beyond 50 yards or so feel like much more difficult to take out unless you have a scope. In Verdun, one can get their kill with iron sights at 100 yards pretty easily. Sure there is weapon sway, but that can be mitigated by holding your breath. Doing this in Isonzo feels much less smooth. Even in more close range combat its worse, if you miss your first shot, you're dead. The reload and aim time is simply too slow. If you DO kill your target and his has a friend, you're dead. Most "squad" fights end up just being last man standing, one shot, one kill, one death. Next guy, rinse, repeat. It feels as if we're playing with muskets.

After all this I can spawn on any of my teammates I want, or any of the spawn points. I may be the odd man out here, but I do not like the spawn point system in this game. In Verdun, if you wanted to "infiltrate" a side and spawn on any teammate, you had to chose the proper faction, or just spawn on your officer. Here not only can spawn points be captured, the enemy can build them right behind you, meaning AN ENTIRE TEAM can spawn while you're trying to take an objective. What I've seen in most matches is that fights now are entirely focused on holding or destroying SPAWN POINTS instead of the OBJECTIVE, which leads to 9 games out of 10 the attackers lose, because they essentially have extra objectives to hold behind them while simultaneously trying to attack 2 other objectives.

Also, the progression system: not a fan. The unlock system in Verdun was so much better. I had to grind for grenades for ASSAULT class? Even in Verdun the standard beginning loadout came with 1 grenade. Why did you change this?

Also, the camera shake compounds all of this even worse. Officers can spam ordinance WAY too fast (compared to Verdun, where they arguably had MORE artillery in that theater) and 90% of the time I spend looking at my blurry screen, only to get sniped from the suburbs of Venice or God knows from where.

While I do appreciate the positive aspects of it, the negatives vastly outweigh them and I'm probably go back to playing Verdun here before long. I really like the WW1 series, and I'm want them to succeed and continue making games, but for me personally, I can't in good faith recommend this game as it stands.

Game is generally dead at this point, but one of my all time favorites. Chiv 2 is trash, DO NOT buy in its current state.

Great WW1 fps, gameplay is great, only a few bugs here and there.