11 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 116.9 hrs on record (82.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: Aug 29, 2016 @ 9:54am
Updated: Aug 29, 2016 @ 10:53am

Early Access Review
Nival has shown a master class on how to completely ruin a legendary game. Take everything you've known about (in-) famous Blitzkrieg series and throw it out the window because this is a completely differen beast.

First off the most important part of any BK game - MP - is clash of clans style junk (0.9 release doesn't help it much). It's nothing like it used to be - massive BK battles is a thing of past. Seriously, whoever at Nival came up with this idea of asynchronous multiplayer - go design mobile games, this crap has no place in PC gaming.

As for SP, it is featuring poorly deigned missions that lead to difficulty surpasing that of BK:Fall of the reich (I hated it, but in the same time have massive respect as it was designed with hardcore fans in mind and everyone knew that).

Only positive things I honestly see are the idea of building up your army with recently introduced reward system and somewhat decent visuals. Core gamelay mechanics (with classic BK in mind) are pretty much broken in every aspect.

It really hurts me to press that "No" button under "Do you recommend this game?" because I really wanted this game to succeed and bring back the series. However a series of poor design decisions on Nival's part are really making me doubt Nival's capability of turning this mess around and making another great BK game.

I believe guys at Nival should launch BK 1 and 2 (surely they must have a copy, lol), study on what made those games great and build on top of that, not, completely out of blue introduce some weird mobile game style elements and ruin core gameplay. If weird mobile game style is what You want to do - don't call it Blitzkrieg. Have some respect for a legendary game - even if you own the franchise.
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