I, like many people (I assume), first heard about this game from the guys at Inside Gaming. It looked interesting, I must admit, and when the price temporarily dropped down to $1.25, I knew I had to have it in my game library.

This has got to be the one of the worst games I have ever played. To start with, for an FPS, the gunplay is surprisingly terrible. The guns have no real presence and all of the sounds for them, from firing to reloading, are laughably stock. Each gun takes what feels like a year to reload (I'm sure you can see where that would get frustrating.) The graphics are extremely dated, even for a game that came out in 2008. It is also a Russian-made game. While this is not a bad thing, it does mean that it has had to be redubbed. The voice-overs are just unbearably atrocious. Everybody in it sounds uninterested in the current situation and when they should be yelling, they tend to do little more than talk in a high whisper. They are so bad that they make the acting in Just Cause 2 look like GTA V. The horrible voiceovers are not helped by the translated text, which so far has not had any spelling mistakes, but it is very convoluted to the point that you may need to reread certain sentences more than once.

The AI is something to be studied and talked about for many, many years in the future. Oftentimes I have seen enemy soldiers run into walls and not turn around. If they are not running into walls, they are throwing grenades at the ceiling and blowing themselves up. If they are not trying to commit suicide, they are making a beeline for you so they can continuously whack you in the face. To make combat a little more interesting (or maybe to distract you from the awfulness of literally every single gun), the developers have put a few "creative" features into the game. If you are taking too many bullets from all sides, you can put up your "UberShield", which will absorb incoming rounds and deflect them back at your enemies. It also, unfortunately, does not let you shoot back at them, as it collects your rounds and fires them when the shield runs out. In addition to this, there are the "UberSniper" and "Berzerker" modes, which make you immune to damage after 3 headshots and 3 knife kills, respectively. While all of these features may sound very interesting, they are not implemented into the game very well at all, and half of the time they just feel like a retread of other features from previous first person shooters.

The last thing I am going to talk about in this short essay of a review is the cutscenes. You remember cutscenes, don't you? The kind of ones that are either pre-rendered or made with the ingame engine? Well, if you don't like either of those, don't worry, Ubersoldier II has got you covered! Introducing the new and absolutely revolutionary comic-book cutscene! Watch as only 4 or 5 pictures are played continuously over bland dialogue. This has never been done in a game before, and I am sure that it is going to catch on with the AAA developers all over the world. (In all seriousness, the 4 or 5 pictures that they use in their cutscenes look hand-drawn, which at least took somebody some effort to make. Occasionally, they are drawn quite well, but not too often.)

It may sound like I am taking the piss out of this game. It might not deserve it, but oh boy is it such an easy target. It is definitely one of the worst games I can think of that came out in the last decade, something on par with Ride to Hell: Retribution. There are a couple of major differences between these games, though. Ubersoldier II has got plenty of soul, and a hell of a lot of heart, while Ride to Hell is as cruel and heartless as the Devil himself. When I play Ubersoldier, I at least get the sense that there was a team of people actually TRYING to make a good game. You know what, I think they actually might have succeeded.


In short: Is this a fun game?

Hell yes!

I bought this in the name of inside gaming

Old-school FPS fun pretty much sums this game up. The voice acting/dialogue is a little cringe worthy, but that kind of adds to the appeal personally. Visually it looks pretty good, even today. Is it "OHmahGAWD CRYISISIS 3 maxxed" good? No. But that doesn't matter, especially for a game that's 8 years old. Bottom line; the game's fun and it's only $10.

Possibly the most absurd cutscenes and unintentionally hilarious voiceacting ever. The gameplay is a mixed bag of filling your 'stab Nazis in the face' combo meter and savestating your way through instant death artillary barrage. Worth every headache when you get to the final boss.

I don't know why but I thought that this game was made in quite the same time as RTCW. My bad - it was made 6 years later. Graphics looks much worse then in 6 years older game. I'm not even going to compare it to other games made in the same year (like Bioshock, Portal, Crysis). Also it's filled with bugs, problems with collision detection, terrible gunplay and ridiculous melee.

Usually I don't care about graphics or bugs that are not gamebreaking. Same with plot (which is total garbage here). Only amount of fun is important for me when it comes to first person shooters. Somebody thought that it would be a good idea to put there some rpg elements - but it's made in disastrous way that ruined all fun for me. You can "upgrade" your character with "experience points" gathered during missions. After mission you can add +1 for each xp point to one of 5 statistics (health, stamina, shield, "special" and accuracy). It would be quite nice if not the way you gather experience.
You have to kill 3 enemies in a row with headshots or melee. Melee gives more exp, at first you have a lot of time between kills later it's much shorter (to the point when combo breaks on loading new bullet to sniper rifle or betwen 2 swings of knife). After I figured it out I started to use quicksave more often and reload after each wasted combo - because on hard - you really need additional health. And you need better accuracy to actually be able to hit their heads from distance xD

When you complete combo - next attack of the same type will trigger "special ability". For headshot it's ubersniper and for melee it's berserk. And during that you deal massive damage (with guns or knife - one-hit most enemies) and you are invulnerable to all damage. Also you don't get xp during that phase. You can cancel that and I was doing it as fast as possible for 2 reasons: I wanted that xp and.. playing on GOD MODE is booooring.

So yeah - this game gives you GOD mode as part of game mechanics. How to make it a little bit harder so people won't fall asleep while playing? Yes - turn opponents into bulletsponges. In this game you need 3 rocket launcher shots to destroy a tank. It takes 2-3 panzerfausts to kill some telekinetic dude in coat, and 4-5 to kill guy in armor. Using guns against them is rather pointless.

What about the rest of gameplay? Levels design? Dialogues?
You need good resistance to bullsh*t to play that game. Some examples:
- arenas - this happens in every level. You enter some small area. Music starts playing and enemies start coming from holes in walls - 3-4 at time. It gets boring really fast. Also those sequences are too long.
- on one level you have to climb on the radio tower. Airplane is circling around you and it drops nazis on parashutes that are shooting in your direction with ridiculous accuracy.
- I'm not even going to rant on finall boss and his hilarious doomsday device. I wasted too much time on playing this game and now writing this. Just wanted to warn you.

It's really overpriced if you take game quality into account.
Avoid!

Are you familiar with the term "so bad it's good"? Like something that is just objectively not well made but is still for some reason incredibly enjoyable? Ubersoldier II is like that. It is so bad, so utterly horrible, so poorly made that it should never be played... but for some reason I loved nearly every second of it.

This game is the "Sharknado" of video games. It is bad in nearly every aspect but still a fun romp. The voice acting is so bad, the story is almost completely nonsensical, the cutscenes are laughably awful. This being said, everytime there is any kind of story exposition I can't help but crack a smile and just enjoy it. The gunplay itself is pretty bland, not horrible but nothing amazing. You get some special powers that spice things up a little and are really fun the first few times you use them but pretty quickly get stale. The level design is so so so so bad that sometimes when I was playing through the game I would get stuck running around in circles while trying to complete a level and would end up screaming WHY????? when I finally figure out how to progress. But even navigating these bizarre levels was kind of fun in their own way. It was like exploring some kind of weird post modern work of art.

Is this a good game? Hell no. Is this game worth playing? Hell yes. (maybe just get it when it's on sale)

I bought this because of Inside Gaming. its so cheesy its fun!

I dont know why I got this game but my time with it was pretty good.

Good if you are bored af, but not worth the price!
For a euro on a sale it could be ok for you :)
Still definitly nothing "good" here.
6/10

Solid old school fps, nothing great nothing bad.