Genre: Client games, Online shooters
Features: In Russian, Popular, Beautiful, PVP, Cybersport
Status: Started
Payment: Free-to-play
Developer: Crytek
Publisher: Mail.Ru Group, Trion Worlds
Release date: March 17, 2012
Website: http://wf.mail.ru
Warface
Warface – a sensational network shooter on the engine Cry Engine 3. You are waiting for four classes, six game modes, a huge selection of cards, modern graphics and interesting PvE-missions
If the name of the network shooter does not contain the words Call of Duty, Battlefield or Counter-Strike, then past such a game it was customary to pass without looking back. Why was it? Because the Kiev branch of the company Crytek recently made a real revolution, creating a shareware shooter, which came close to glossy blockbusters, and some of them even managed to bite the heel. We are talking, of course, about Warface – one of the most anticipated games of the year.
Let’s get to the point. The game has four classes of characters: engineer, attack aircraft, sniper and medic. The engineer moved straight from the Battlefield series. The only thing that he does not know how, is to repair tanks, because there are no tanks in Warface. This class is accustomed to communicate with submachine guns and specializes in installing mines. Open battle is not for him – the engineer must be able to analyze the situation, calculate the most popular “paths” of enemies and shit there to the best of their abilities.
The Sturmovik is the main strike force of any unit. It is not only universal (the attack aircraft is effective at any distance), but it is also a walking ammunition depot, such a “great-grandfather”, who always has a pair of grenades for the “brothers” in his pocket.
The doctor, as usual, runs around with a defibrillator and can raise even a cold corpse from one level. Practically useless with remote skirmishes, but near with joy will thrust into you a couple of charges from the shotgun. In PvP, you can still do without this class, but in PvE its availability is critical. Especially it is noticeable on missions with Juggernaut – hefty armored muzhik, whose metal protection is extremely sensitive to shock of defibrillator current.
The last class is a sniper, the most unnecessary. On most cards, he simply has nowhere to turn around. Looking into the scope, he will not see the enemy’s head in front of him, but leapfrogging on his face. And there are not so many positions for unhurried shooting in Warface.
At this point in the game there are six types of battles. Sturm suggests one of the sides to capture the three pivot points, and the other, respectively, do not allow them to do so. In Podryv, one team needs to explode three key points alternately, and the defenders – to repel them. Capture and Team battle are classic CTF and TDM. In Destruction you need to keep one point under control in order to trigger an air strike on your enemies. Last mode – Meat mincer, the most fun – in it everyone plays for himself. No timpley – only rain from the lead and shoals of grenades in the air.
The cooperative in Warface is surprisingly interesting. Here, and escorting technology, and skirmishes with the bosses, and a local analogue of survival, where instead of a zombie on you rod herds of mercenaries. It is here that the team interaction is very important, because there are a lot of enemies here, they shoot even more, and if the team does not have a doctor, then you can safely leave the game. AI computer rivals unexpectedly clever – likes to jump out from behind corners, lures into the gateways and intelligently changes positions.
The only thing you can find fault in Warface, so it’s to the tightness of the cards. The seats here are smaller than in CoD, so opponents are literally stepping on each other’s heels. In this game you do not live long, unless, of course, you do not have a personal medic on a leash. Sometimes the meat grinder occurs right on the base and here only permanent rolls can save the permanent death.
Another important feature of the game is the extremely weak influence of Donate on the gameplay. In total, there are three currencies in Warface. Crowns and Warbucks can be earned honestly in battle, but loans are purchased for real money. For the first you can take out equipment for rent, for the second one – buy it forever, and for a third you can buy weapons that do not break. The only thing that is missing in Warface for today, so it’s a big card. With them, Crytek would have turned out to be a real masterpiece.
