Enemy Front puts you in the shoes of an intrepid American reporter covering the war. We recently reviewed Sniper Elite III as well which was set up in the same era. We feel CI Games has made a lot made a lot of progress in game development.
Enemy Front brings us to old school World War 2 games where you can find nice old weapons, but not most advanced AI. So let’s delve a bit deeper 🙂
Gameplay
Enemy Front depicts lots of controversial subjects you’ll come across depictions of atrocities being committed against civilians and partisans. If you choose to act you’ll be confronted with the nasty results. Choosing to rescue a person who’s about to be executed may be a heroic act, but it also means getting discovered and attacked by the enemy. Later on, you’ll have a harrowing walk through a barely-functioning Warsaw hospital that’s under constant bombardment.
Enemy Front review
Throughout the game, textures are low-quality. While the boot-up screen’s declaration that the game was “achieved with CryEngine” begins to sound downright sarcastic. Checkpoints are ruthless, often placed before long sequences of cut-scenes, battles and stealth. Die and you may find yourself replaying most of a level. Mu Ha ha J
Weapons are quite inaccurate and it might be a deliberate attempt to recreate the capabilities of vintage firearms. But be prepared for some funny bugs, perfect sniper headshots that go bizarrely wide while Bullets pass through solid walls; enemies spawn impossibly from places that were empty seconds before.
AI characters and enemies, whose behaviors are often erratic so when the game’s blurb describes a “richly interactive combat experience that breaks out of highly linear scripted FPS experiences” and every now and then, you get a glimpse of what that would have been like.
Enemy Front review
Many levels are open and broad by design. You can genuinely flank enemies, working your way around them on either side rather than just opting to push down the left or right side of a corridor. Occasionally, there’s the opportunity to use the environment to your advantage, sending logs tumbling into encampments or trucks careening into outposts. If the game had workable physics and convincing AI, there’d be some sense of satisfaction in doing so. As it is, such moments merely suggest a better game hopelessly buried under a broken one.
Conclusion
Enemy Front tries hard to mimic the juggernauts that dominate the genre, but can’t stand out between the vastly superior Wolfenstein: The New Order and the Sniper Elite 3 which lands it in the unfortunate middle area where it leaves a lasting negative impression.
To conclude an ambitious work that does not come together quite as well as it could have, Enemy Front is an entertaining experience that offers a wide variety of action in locales rarely visited. You can buy if you love to be a Nazi Slayer J
