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A SERIOUS FPS FOR SERIOUS GAMERS.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The people who actually lived through it called it not WWII but "The War". What if The War had never ended; what if it kept going on its youth grinding path for decades, absorbing lives and destroying dreams, and, eventually, becoming an economic entity of its own? Well, that would have been an alternative world in great need of heroes.

You will be fitting the well-used boots of James Anderson, an officer on the Allied side, sent deep behind enemy lines with the core objective of disrupting and disabling the Russian weapons program. Things, of course, do no go as planed. They rarely do in games with good stories.

The atmosphere is bleak and grey and the level design is exceptional. The environments clearly depict a grim world where the shadow of war has set in the land and in deep the hearts of people. Shell-torn houses, muddy ditches and endless trenches are all that is left of Europe after 2 generations of endless warfare. Alternating between drab outdoor vistas, claustrophobic trenches and war-delapitaded buildings helps submerge the player in the game world, and makes him feel like he's the one creating the story.

The set of weapons is excellently balanced, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. A lot of FPS games get ruined by badly designed, ineffective or overly-effective weapons. IRON STORM's weapons should be taught in game-designer seminars! Sniping is highly encouraged, however, when in close and confided spaces nothing beats a shotgun's deadly spread.

Where it looses the 5th star: for starters, the controls are not remapable! I prefer using the arrow-keys (instead of the WASD-configuration), and customizing the keyboard controls to conform with my habits. However, whenever this was attempted the game...crashed - unacceptable for a game of this caliber.
Moreover, the game setting just begs for a multiplayer. However, the lag is totally atrocious and renders the multiplayer practically useless.

Now, this is a beautiful but in no way an easy game. There are snipers everywhere and you are all alone (frankly though, this not as bad as it sounds given that the quality of squads' AI has not improved over the years). On top of that, there is an endless number of nerve-racking German K9 units, tough enemy infantry, hidden bunkers, elite gunmen and ever-changing objectives from headquarters: all will stand in your way to victory. Bravery is rewarded - but, sometimes, a full frontal attack will only make sure you will be reloading again and again. Sneaking your way through heavily guarded areas is, in many instances, the only way to stay alive and fight another day...

All in all, although not perfect, it does come close. This is a serious FPS game for serious gamers.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

A True Brain Tester

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've completed several games from start to finish, even received 4 stars (general) in Janes USAF, but I have never finished a game with tears in my eyes. I felt like I had just won a hugh battle against several large grizzlies. Tip, be patient.

Iron Storm: Horrible

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I first heard about the game on a gaing website and thought it would be great. Basically, it's an "alternate-history" game where world war one has been raging for 50 years. When I finally got to Target and bought it, I was excited. When I installed and started playing it, I wasn't so excited. As soon as I started it, the game quit on me and went to the desktop! Aaaaarg!! I was finally able to get a good patch, but it screwed up all the movies! I wanted to give the game a good score, but the gameplay is awful.There is no life-meter so I can never know if i'm about to die or not. And it's so frickin hard!!! It's as if 1 guy can kill you with a shotgun if you're not quick. The only good thing I can say about it are some of the weapons. The game is really realistic. You can only carry 4 guns at a time, and 1 sword. The only thing about weapons I hate are that in some missions, you must drop all of the "good" weapons you have, like a sniper rifle and a machine gun or a rocketlauncher whatever. Here's a tip, always try the demo before you buy the game. I should've done that and saved thirty precious dollars.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is bar-none, the worst first person shooter I've ever played. The software was actually released with a catastrophic bug and won't start with out the download patch. Graphically, the game is weak and unimpressive. I realize that it's built with a new 3D engine, but still; I expected more. It's rated `M' but I really don't know why: the gore is quite tame. Game play is slow and the objectives are rather unintuitive (I was stuck a number of times and had to use an online walk-through).

The storyline is weak at best and the ending was not worth playing for. I would suggest you save your money and get a better / more stable 1st person shooter. (For me, a couple great ones are; "Return to Castle Wolfenstien" and "Soldier of Fortune II".)

Game suffers from serious functionality flaws

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ignoring the last reviewer, I will most certainly share the problems I've experienced thus far with this game. If I could give the game "0" stars, I would in a heartbeat.

My system exceeds the minimum listed requirements for this game (My NVidia TNT2 card is specifically mentioned as being supported). In fact, it exceeds most of the recommended requirements. I have not been able to get the game to work at all. After running the intial video introduction, the game crashes and returns me to my desktop.

Attempts to contact technical support have not been successful. A check of the user forums on their website reveals that many, many people have experienced similar problems with no support from Dreamcatcher.

I've loaded dozens of similar games on my pc without any major problems. Not one problem with Medal of Honor or Delta Force.

Never have I experienced such a lack of customer commitment than I have with Dreamcatcher. It is almost as if they know they've released a bad product and are too shadey to acknowledge it or make any serious attempts to do anything about it.

I strongly recommend against purchasing this game. If you want a fun military FPS game, go with Medal Of Honor, Delta Force or something else more reputable.

Save yourself money and lots of frustration.

"Computer ineptitude." Bah!

serious design flaws

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My computer exceeds system requirements for the game and I could barely get passed the intro screen before I got kicked back to my desktop. I tried reinstalling without any positive success and have neither the time or energy to mess with patches or customer support (based on earlier reviews it sounds like it would'nt do much good anyway). No, I think I will just return this "game" and avoid future Dreamcatcher titles.

Multiplayer Fun Time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Great multiplayer experience...will leave you wanting more!
I CONSIDER IT TO BE A GREAT INVESTMENT!
BEST MONEY SPENT!

Don't bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the latest in a line of boring 1st person shooters that attempt to approximate war. You will spend much of your time with Iron Storm reloading saved games. Many levels actually require you to die several times in order to reveal where the bad guys are. Save, get shot, reload, takeout sniper, repeat. How is this fun?

BTW, enough with the game reviews by people who couldn't get the game working. Your computer ineptitude is not relevant to the rest of us.

Horrible. Simply Horrible.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: September 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I thought the premise was interesting enough to warrant picking this one up out of the ol' bargain bin.

That was a mistake. Save your money for something better, like, say, elective exploratory prostate surgery. Without anaesthetics.

I wasn't expecting great graphics, or even gameplay, really. The engine is pretty dated, and doesn't look like it was that great to begin with. Enemy AI wasn't too bad- slightly reminiscent of Half-Life, the way they used grenades. What kept me going was the story behind the action- I was simply interested in seeing how it was executed, and how it would unfold.

Sadly, IronStorm crashed to the desktop after fifteen minutes of gameplay, on the average- sometimes much, much more often. Maddening! Patching didn't help. I also found that patching it eliminated cheat codes and trainer access (I was playing for the entertainment of the story, not the twitchy shooter thrills). IronStorm still crashed all over the place. I gave up on the "alternate history" and thought I'd give the multiplayer facet a try.

Interestingly, I didn't seem to encounter the crashes in multiplayer, but still found it incredible that the multiplayer spawns players with no weapon selected! You've got a crappy default pistol, but you have to always select it at spawn, or you're defenseless. Add that little gem to the usual mix of spawn campers on public servers, and it gets really irritating in a hurry.

Bottom line: It had a lot of promise, but it's junk. Sorry, Dreamcatcher, you've published a nightmare. This game stinks.

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