In fact, the game actively discourages you from wandering off the beaten path by placing invisible mines all along the pathway, so if you try to go exploring, you'll get blown sky high. The objectives are all laid out right in front of you, so at least you don't have to go searching all over a level to find what you're looking for. You might have to destroy three radios, take out a couple pillboxes, or sabotage some enemy airplanes. Using these limited weapons, you have to work your way through each level while completing mission objectives. You can find some grenades, and at one point you do get a completely useless flamethrower, but other than that, you're stuck with what you have. You're given no choice of which weapons to take with you into combat, and you can almost never pick up new weapons during the mission. You have a primary weapon, which is usually a rifle or machine gun an explosive weapon, such as grenades or a rocket launcher and two secondary weapons, these being a pistol and a knife. It's a first-person shooter, so you start each mission with a few different types of weapons. But even if this game had come out five, or even 10, years ago, it would have still felt behind the times. This is far from effective, though, and you're left with an ugly, unsalvageable mess of a game.Īs a first-person shooter, Iwo Jima has high standards to live up to on both the PC and the Xbox. But the game mostly ignores this material instead, it uses the name and some brief video clips to set the stage. It's certainly a fine setting for a World War II shooter, with plenty of important battles and heroic missions to draw inspiration from. You start out storming a beach and move on from there, single-handedly fighting through foggy jungles and crumbling villages to capture the island for the Allies. It's not even bad in a funny way this game is really about as terrible as it gets.Īs the name so plainly states, World War II Combat: Iwo Jima takes you through several missions set on the heavily contested island of Iwo Jima during World War II. If Iwo Jima proves anything, it's that if ever there were a series that doesn't deserve to be a series, it's the World War II Combat games. Every single aspect of World War II Combat: Iwo Jima, from the punishing checkpoint system and generic mission design to the hideous graphics and bug-ridden gameplay make for a game that is completely without merit. You'll feel frustration, anger, confusion, and amazement at the overwhelming dearth of quality, inspiration, and general effort in this title. Iwo Jima is so dreadfully awful that when playing it, you'll feel more than just the sting of regret from throwing your $20 away.
Don't let the generic title fool you-this game is anything but innocuous. As if to prove a point about just how awful video games can be, publisher Groove Games has released World War II Combat: Iwo Jima, the second game in a series that debuted earlier this year with the terrible Road to Berlin.
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