WWII Online: Blitzkrieg

The Good
I love the premise. They set up a 1/2 scaled Europe, and they give us WWII weapons and vehicles, and let us play it out all over again with no set missions - rewriting history online. Can the Nazis control America with better leadership? We may never find out with all these glaring bugs.

The Bad
Personally, I don't like the frame rates. On my top end system, flying a plane over an unpopulated town will take my frame rates into the single digits, and often stopping for long periods of time (5-120 seconds), after which I am usually dead. Thousands of other players express problems with crashing to the desktop, an inability to even start a game, and an unheard of load time - up to 10 minutes. And that's just for starters. The game manual is about as thick as a waffle house menu, the graphics are on the same level as some 1993 DOS titles even at the highest setting, not to mention the rifleman that fires backward and into the ground - a bug that hasn't been fixed 2 months into the release. All in all it has the feel that the game is still in alpha testing, and buying the game funded further development.

The Bottom Line
A WWII simulator that has many bugs, many flaws, many shortcomings, and a hard row to hoe to reach greatness. Fun to play when it works, hair pulling when it doesn't.