Samstag, 11. September 2021

War Identity (PC) Review

 

War Identity is a F2P Shooter, that claims to bridge the gap between arcade shooters and realistic military simulation games. Bold claims, that War Identity never even came close to living up to. Since a few months the game isn't even playable anymore (game simply doesn't let you login).

The game has 6 different Multiplayer game modes (TDM, Free for All, Last Man Standing, Capture the Flag, Domination and Gun Trial), so nothing out of ordinary or especially identical. At least the game released with a couple of modes available. The Dev of War Identity also worked on the implementation of additional game modes like Battle Royale and other future updates (kill streaks etc), with only making tiny progress along the way (Obviously none of them will ever be released...). Oh and there is also a really horrendous Zombie mode in the game. I think you can only play alone (even though it claims to be "Coop"), the Zombies are very stupid and all of the games other problems are also apparent in this mode (more to that later on).

The maps in War Identity are also pretty terribly designed. Most of them look like they were completely randomly put together. There is no combination of elements, symmetry or any apparent structure. It feels like visuals elements were put into a randomization generator and whatever came out was the finished map.

The gunplay is stiff, boring and pretty forgettable. The even bigger offenders of this game however are the visuals and the performance. War Identity looks like a mobile game (even though it was only developed for PC) and not even a mediocre one (which would already be awful), but a really terrible one. This is just abysmal and all people, who think this is acceptable for a PC game, should immediately switch their glasses. There can be no excuses for such a mess.   

Probably even worse is, that this game had constant micro stuttering and lag regardless of the PC capabilities of the users. This is not explainable. How can a game look this disastrous and than not even run halfway smooth?   

A playerbase never really existed, since most players smartly ran away and buried this game deep down in the paper bins of their computers after testing it out. So players had to engage against the terribly weird bots. They mostly behaved pretty braindead and slow moving, but somehow could shoot at players without even looking in their direction or by shooting through the ground (maybe this is supposed to be some kind of new challenge...).

The only real good aspect of War Identity was its variety of different weapon attachments. Players could switch many parts of a weapon like iron sights, muzzles, foregrips, ammunition magazines or camos (like the recent COD games). It is just a shame, that these different attachments had practically no impact, since the gunplay felt so lame.

Another real audacity of the game was its skin system. Nearly of them looked either hideous or completely generic and the prices of them were more than just usurious. There were multiple bland character skins sold for 50 Dollars and the top of the cake was taken by a single 135 Dollar skin. This was way beyond madness!

 

Pro:

- Strong weapon attachment system

 

Contra:

- Bland and boring gunplay

- Terrible map design

- Abysmal graphics

- Unaccaptable performance (constant micro stuttering)

- Usurious monetization model

 

Result:

I believe that even most bad games should be preserved, but I can't say I'm terrible sorry, that War Identity is not playable anymore. The weapon attachment system might have been good, but what does that matter, if your gunplay is so unenjoyable and the rest of game is simply not defendable. There was no effort put into the design of the maps, the graphics insult even every potato gamer, the performance is cancerous and the monetization model nigh criminal. I have no idea, how some people can defend a game like War Identity. The game is in no place to improve, it is a death pit, best left alone forever. 

 

1.5/10

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