Battlestrike Force of Resistance: FPS Gaming Review

Playing as John Forsyth - a British trained commando leading the resistance - your task is to try and stop the burgeoning movements of the Nazi war machine. Lead the resistance and help other guerillas scattered around Europe as you try to take out the Nazi soldiers scattered around the continent. WIll it prove fruitful or fatal in the end?

The thing is, playing WWII games are really so blase, that you'll be looking for more and more innovation. Once you've played one or two or ten, you feel like you've played them all. Perhaps if Battle Strike came out before 10 others in this genre, I would have been amazed, but now I'm just saying ho-hum, what's next?

What I like about it is though I've managed to play it through in two days (yes I know still fast, but I didn't sit still. I had other games to play too) is that throughout the 8 levels - discounting other FPS games in your head - you still do get to enjoy yourself with a variety of tasks like blowing up bridges, robbing banks, or hijacking planes.

This game gets 3 out of 5 for a reason here, my gaming aficionados.

Battle Strike lets you opt between Recruit and Veteran level, so you pretty much know where this is going by now; the Recruits are too easy and the Veterans are too hard. But if you've played the game once at Recruit level, you'll know where the villains are staked out. The difference lies in your shooting accuracy and theirs. Enemy soldiers hit like snipers and you hit like...well someone using a track-ball mouse with a dusty ball.

A lot of gamers and reviewers out there might say that the graphics engine of Battle Strike is old, but for me - regardless of whether its outdated - the question is does it deliver?

For the graphics I'd say yes, to an extent. I did certainly feel like I was a British commando trained in the art of warfare. The images and scenes shown on screen might ("could" is possibly the better word) have passed for what wartime Europe had been and for me, its good enough. Interfaces are ok too, what with your range of weapons, things going KABOOM, and killing off enemy soldiers. Battle Strike is passable when it comes to its graphics.

Using the Chrome engine, the sounds of this game seem to be really great. I really love things that go boom when I play my FPS with brilliant sound hardware and a few amps scattered around the room. The impressive sounds that came from the game really kept me in the mood. (Yes, even the heckles from the Nazi soldiers were worth listening to!)