This is really just going to be short review on Masked Forces 1, since the gameplay and content of the game is nearly identical to the previously reviewed Masked Forces 3 and Rebel Forces. There are many more of these Freeze Nova games from the Masked franchise (Masked Forces 2: Mystic Demons, Masked Shooters 1/2, Crazy Shooters 1/2, Masked Shooters Assault and so on) , but I am not going to review them, since they mostly just switch maps and occasionally add a game mode or two, but otherwise feel way too same and most importantly share the same under average gameplay. If you only want to experience the best of them, than I recommend not reading any further and just play Rebel Forces. Masked Forces 1 was probably the original, that started to have some minor success. So I will at least summarize the most important aspects of it.
Gunplay and movement feel identical to Rebel Forces, which means a movement that feels like sliding and imprecise and under average gunplay. Masked Forces also shares the offline missions from Rebel Forces, which are equally boring and tedious here (You just play repetitive nonsense quests against bad, slow moving AI). Bots are also not available in the MP modes in MF1, just like they weren't in Rebel Forces (We can see a tendency here). Maps on the other hand are worse than in Rebel Forces or Masked Forces 3. All maps look very grey and shallow (around 90 % off all maps consist of grey cement floors or walls...) and have in common, that they lack details and look pretty hideous. Factory is probably the best map in the game and it mostly consists of boring storehouses and some containers. Bastion (large empty middle part of the map with a few containers at the side) is awful, Barricade (just tunnels and a place full of pillars), Blockade (the largest map, but too empty and random) and Freedom (just a couple of boxes lying around) are just boring and disappointing.
Game modes are identical to Rebels Forces (which means DM, TDM and Doom), but Doom is worse in Masked Forces 1, since it lacks the double speed and double jump options of the Rebel version. The Doom mode is nonetheless the best part of the game.
Weapons are in MF1 mostly being earned by leveling up instead of purchasing them with ingame currency (Since you only got currency through leveling it doesn't really make much of a difference).
There is also a Wii U version of Masked Forces 1, which removed the entire Multiplayer part of the game and only left the terrible offline missions in it. I feel a great pity for everybody, who had to play that version... (It also costs 3 Euro on the Nintendo E-Shop instead of the 1 Euro on Steam or free browser version...) The game apparently was also released on Xbox One, but I couldn't find material or user reviews anywhere (they were probably all too ashamed to admit, that they bought the game). At least it can be stated, that the browser version of Masked Forces 1 always has a stable framerate, that doesn't seem to be much different to the Steam version.
Result:
Masked Forces 1 feels in a lot of ways like a worse version of Rebel Forces with inferior map quality and the noticeably worse Doom mode (the only really good aspect of Rebel Forces). Masked Forces 1 also has far less content than Masked Forces 3 (lack of BR, lack of Zombies etc). At least the performance of the Browser version is always stable and therefore much better than in MF3, but Masked Forces 1 is still a disappointment. It may have released first, but there is no real reason to play Masked Forces 1 nowadays.
3/10
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