6 officially released maps mimic World War II campaigns in addition to many other custom-made maps. Players that are killed respawn in a certain time limit set by each server. The only exception to this is a “Last Man Standing” game mode that is true to its title. Usually, there are objectives for the attacking team to complete and a set time limit for them to complete it. Like in the previous game we reviewed in this series, America’s Army, the defense team must prevent the attacking team from completing their objectives. A stalemate gives victory to the defense team.
The characters are skinned as Allied or Axis soldiers and carry a multitude of realistic weapons from that time period including pistols, machine guns, and flamethrowers. As a player progresses in a server they earn experience points that are often relevant to the class of solider they are: engineer, regular soldier, field ops, medic, or covert ops. Depending on the server settings, a player’s experience may be saved or kept but is for future sessions but experience points are not unique to each server and not interchangeable. The weaponry for each type of soldier is different and gives unique abilities such as a field op soldier being able to call air-strikes.
The multiplayer experience can be fun with pre-programmed voice commands chat functionality. Gameplay is governed by the anti-cheating software creator PunkBuster.
