Weaponry in the game is pretty good overall. There are a few useless weapons, oddly enough the more powerful ones. The last weapon in the game, a sort of lightning gun, is pretty useless. Ditto the afore-mentioned Snooper. The flame-thrower is a bit weak as well, that is except against slow moving zombies. The best weapons in the game are the Mauser (especially with scope), the assault rifle (again with scope) and the mini gun (for big targets). As a back-up the standard infantry machine-gun works fine. The Tommy-gun is alright but there is little ammo and its clips are too small. Head-shots are always best, and you will find yourself staring down the sight at many a hairy head.

Multi-player, which is in fact a different application, is another kettle of fish. Under this form, one must co-operate with one?s team against the other side (Axis or Allies) to achieve certain objectives. Each player must take a specialisation, which then dictates available weaponry and tasks. As with the solo game, multiplayer levels look impressive and fairly realistic. A level where yout team, as the allies, must storm the beach could be straight out of Band of Brothers. Of course, you can play online either via Gameranger or via an in-built game browser system. 56k players will have some difficulty keeping to the pace, but that is to be expected. It would have been nice to be able to play solo against bots to practice, but, oh well.

RTCW is quite frankly a stunning game. This is the best game ID have released since the last Doom game. Far superior in gameplay and storyline to anything released by ID for a long time, RTCW is a welcome pleasure. It you are pining for the Deux Ex II or No One Lives Forever, then I highly recommend you get RTCW as a stop gap. You will be pleasantly surprised, I assure you. If you thought ID only released brainless blood-fests, think again. Here's hoping ID releases a sequel. Let's face it. What is more fun" Killing faceless aliens? Or killing scads of loathsome Nazis?

Thanks to The MacSmith for generously providing me with this review copy.