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Very well done This was a very solid effort and a good gaming experience. Although a FPS, it makes a pretty simple set of command tools available to maneuver fire teams from point to point, suppress and maneuver on the enemy. A couple of times if you get through a level but lose most of your squad then you will have difficulty standing of a counterattack, for example, by yourself. Most of the game play in and of itself has been covered before. It is probably the best FPS out there in the WWII genre, requires more thought/tactics then the others, but it has the limits of the genre. Where the game breaks really new ground is in some of the extras. It makes a good effort to portray the characters as individuals, with some success. The battle scenes are real battlefields and some of the incidents are scripted to follow the actual battle (Cole's Charge, the battle of Harrison Summers at WXYZ)There are some cut screens that show then/now/computer imagery to illustrate this level of detail; the computer programmers actually traveled to Normandy and mapped out their screens that way. It is a new twist. Lastly, there are little lessons on tactics, battles, and weapons that appear (more or less depending on your degree of difficulty played)after scenarios that are nice touches; you could replay a game at a higher level to see an extra lesson, if you like. There is, as far as I can tell, one "real" character in LTC Robert Cole, and you fight a scenario as a soldier in the bayonet charge he led and won the Medal of Honor for. If that sort of realism is interesting you, then this is the only game in town. If you just want to shoot orcs and pixels then this may not be your cup of tea. A note on weapons. As best I can tell, submachine guns at very close range and sniper rifles reliably "kill" the enemy when they hit. Rifles, even with perfect sight picture, tend to suppress the enemy and allow you to close and flank a position. That takes some getting used to. It is more realistic, and I'd say better, but it is different. You cant just snipe the Germans with your M1 and blast your way through, as you couldnt in real life. A new twist, a good, generally bugless effort, and a fun game. Highly recommend.