Each mapís baddies re-spawn the minute you leave the map, so it is necessary to fight your way to and fro. You will be running around aimlessly much of the time as you are forced to go back and forth between two points on the level rather often. The plot and missions are obtuse and much of the time takes a bit of luck to figure out. I defy anyone to get anywhere in this game without a walkthrough.

The gameís WWII ambience wears thin after a while because the game is so frustratingly hard and annoying. Locales do not look that different from each other, and the game-play is as poor all the way along. At least, at first, the game needs to have baddies who are no where near as hard to kill and being able to pinch a coat off a baddie would help things a little. Your idiot companion has a long German pea coat but you are unable to pinch it from him, even though you can manipulate the rest of his inventory and equipment. The docs are pretty useless as well and much of the game is based on trial and error.

Once the story moves on to other locals, the game does not improve. In the next bit you find yourself wandering around an Eastern European countryside on silly quests while trying to fend off huge groups of grenade and machine gun totting Nazis. Sounds fun doesnít it? Well, it isnít.

Between the lame plot, difficulty, load times and stability problems this game is not worth the price of admission. Maybe, just maybe, if the game is patched to address some of the issues if might be worth it. It is certainly not worth the current retail price in its current form. This is a game for hard-core RPGers, the masochistic, and the WWII fanbois.

Another War? More like Another Wretched Piece of Crap.

Rating: 1.5