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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.

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!

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.

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.

A Gamers Review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have played many games...lots of World War 2 games and other FPS games. This game takes the cake of being the most unique game that I have Played. It's fun and enjoyable. But the graphics are not up to par with the newer games out like FEAR and Half Life 2 but I would still recommend that you try this game out.

Few Flaws but, a lot of Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Iron Storm is probably one of the most gross games I have ever played but also one of the most fun. The fact that when you toss a grenade at someone they blow up and thier limbs go flying splattering blood everywhere.I know war is terrible but this is just unreal. If your squimish this is not the game for you. I've also noticed in the first level if you shoot one of the soldiers they fire back and try and kill you but, if you kill the nurse or the cheifs no one cares, weird. The game has a lot of pluses too, for instance the guns abosisly have been made from a junk yard do to lack of resorces and all of the weapons are farely crude(Awsome). Another cool factor in the game is that you can sneek up on an enemy and kill them with your sabre with one hit. Bening in the treches most of the game is pretty scary when your first playing it, you could die just around the corner. The towns look fantastic graphic wise. AI is sort of a bust, for instance I was out of ammo and I just walked around the bad guy and killed him with my sabre. Other than that the game is lots of fun if your in to half-life and Quake kinds of games.

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