The first thing about Warface that struck my interest was that it was a Crytek game. The guys who made Crysis, which was and is one of the best graphically looking games of all time. I mean for god's sakes there was probably more detail in Psycho's face in Crysis 3 than all of the Tell Tale Walking Dead games combined. Their games and their engine are amazing and they are very high on the dev food chain. So when I saw a free to play shooter by them on Steam, I had to get it.
Now this may just be my experience, but the game was underwhelming. The graphics, even set to the highest settings (which almost crashed my PC BTW) looked less impressive than Battlefield 4. The rag doll effects and hit boxes are both a little off, which can make it frustrating to shoot a guy in the head several times before realising the hit box is smaller than the model for the head. The only noticeably different graphics I mentioned are that the environment isn't as high textured as the guns unlike other Crytek titles, which disappointed me. But I guess graphics shouldn't matter when it's free to play. That is another thing that grabbed my attention, there is no cost to buying Warface. There is however, special currency to buy rare items that costs real money. So that's a little B.S, I mean even Battlefield didn't have guns that could be purchased with real money- wait a minute. So yeah almost all shooters let you buy guns. but you don't then make special super items that only last a week. That's real low for them. However, attachments, weapons, and Armour can be unlocked with every level, having you choose which one you want to unlock when you level up when you start the mission, so that's fair. They do have the Crysis feature where you can open an attachment menu at any time with the press of a button and then just click (no controller support whatsoever buts that not an issue) on attachments to choose them and I like that a lot more than doing it in between matches.
The game play itself is really just mediocre, with co-op and PVP as choices. There are four classes to choose from. The Rifleman is Assault with a machine gun and ammo kits. The Sniper has a sniper rifle, pretty self explanatory. The Medic has a shotgun and both health kits and defibrillators. The engineer has an SMG with both armour repair and special land mines they place down. All classes have a primary, secondary, knife, two grenade types though some only have one unlocked, and finally their special which replenishes either armour, health, or ammo. The gun buying system is a little whack, with both timed items and durability for permanent items, meaning you need a lot of money to keep using your good guns. The game modes as a whole are bland. The co-op is just a PVE "clear out all enemies" sort of thing with a few optional objectives like killing a super heavy soldier (which is really OP and hard) or blowing up a helicopter with an RPG. There are only a couple maps and so the harder difficulty challenges just reuse maps with more enemies, tiring out the idea really fast. The A.I in co-op is pretty bad. All they do is rush you and try to melee you or try to snipe you from afar. Even on hard they have terrible aim, except the snipers which literally lock on to you no matter how fast you move. The PVP multiplayer is like Battlefield mechanics on a COD map, meaning slow game play but really the same as other shooters. No different game modes or anything.
I'd normally talk about story here, but I'm not sure there is one. You are Warface, a ragtag military squad sent to stop the evil Blackwood. That's it. I'm serious, that's all they tell you. There aren't even any actual characters, like in Titanfall. There is no story. Which I guess there doesn't need to be in an FPS, but then why would they establish groups and settings. Why not just say "You are a good guy, kill the bad guys, GO!" Oh wait they did exactly that. It's just silly.
To sum up my opinion of the game would be that this game tries to be other games and does them worse. I would recommend buying an actually established FPS like COD or Battlefield instead of this. Actually just go buy Crysis 3, a good game by Crytek.
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