JOINT OPERATIONS - COMBINED ARMS Review

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(More customer reviews)WARNING: The following review is written by a total combat gaming snob who demands the best in online gameplay.
Hey Call Of Duty fans:
What's the point of having a sniper rifle if the enemy is always so close to you that you can just throw a grenade (or a rock)? Such is the laughable world of COD and its sardine can maps. In Joint Ops, the maps have no borders - you can fly, ride, drive or run forever in any direction. You can hike up a mountain side and rain down some death with a sniper rifle like a real sniper actually can. But if COD is all you play, you have no clue what this is like. You probably think snipers shoot their targets from just across the street.
How about 200+ players online in the same map in all out full-scale warfare? Oh, that's right - COD maxes out at 64. But then again, those sardine can maps only allow for that many. Get's a little crowded in there, doesn't it?
Tanks? APCs? Aircraft? Jeeps? Mounted guns on vehicles and aircraft? Dirt bikes? Yup - Joint Operations has them all, 100% pure user-controllable, including mounted guns. COD? Nowhere to be found. Sorry, you're on foot, you brainless grunt. Snore.
Parachuting out of a helo? Yup, that too. Joint Operations is all about combat realism. But this is nowhere to be found in COD.
Armored vehihles like tanks and APCS, all different types, too - Joint Ops is where its at. Nowhere to be found in COD, other than immovable "eye candy" objects to hide behind while your enemies "prairie dog" you.
Calling your own artillery strikes by operating, aiming and firing the artillery yourself - Joint Ops has it. Nowhere to be found in COD. Matter of fact, you can't even call in artillery until you make a certain rank. Sucks to be you.
Hand-carry guided missles like Stingers and Javelins to use against enemy aircract and armored vehicles? Only in Joint Ops.
Sick of playing COD and only being able to experience cool things in single-player mode, only to discover that none of it exists in multi-player mode? Don't you feel ripped off? You should! Sick of playing "dumbed down" jousting matches of endless, boring "run and gun" because the developers have you locked into tiny little sardine can maps that don't allow for aircraft and vehicles? You should be.
Map size, huge issue: imagine jumping on a dirt bike and going off into the distance and going "Evel Knievel" by jumping over hills for a while? You can do that in Joint Ops. COD? Not even. In COD, you can't even walk in any directio for more than a minute before bumping into a very unrelaistic map limit barrier. Gee, that's realistic, isn't it? If Infinity Ward wanted to go for all out realism, they should make your voice echo like you're running around inside a gymnasium - because you are.
Rank and Weapons: Every map starts out with everyone at the same ground level in rank. No "old guard" elitist jerks with superior abilities and weapons to spoil the game. Every weapon available in Joint Operatiosn is available to you during gameplay. Change roles and weapons as you see fit and unleash absolute hell. Oh, that's right, you play COD or BF2, and you can't do that because you have to make a certain rank before you're allowed to touch certain weapons and commands. You actually paid for that game?
Come play Joint Operations, the 5-year old game that STILL makes all versions of COD and Battlefield look like a joke. The graphics aren't as good, but they are still worthy of praise. You will not find another game that will allow you to do what you can do in this game.
Nova Logic got this one right, and in a HUGE way. Nobody else has touched it since, including Nova Logic.
Come see what you've been missing.


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