3 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.6 hrs last two weeks / 172.2 hrs on record (132.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: 13 Oct, 2019 @ 12:01am
Updated: 6 Aug, 2021 @ 11:12am

Hell Let Loose is a tactical hardcore WW2 shooter with minimal arcadey feel in it. The game takes you to historical battles on historical maps (Such as Kursk, Carentan, Utah Beach and Stalingrad) that were accurately made with the help of real-life maps.

"Your name is unknown. Your deed is immortal." - Unknown Soviet Soldier

Pros:
- A really good looking game
- 50 v 50 battles
- Multiple factions, with more on the way (Germany, USA, USSR and the British coming later on)
- Multiple classes to choose from that have their own progression and own uniqe loadouts (Rifleman, Officer, Support etc.)
- Character customization that is historical
- Historical songs and marches
- Historical arsenal (Kar98K, M1 Garand, PPSH-42 etc.)
- Teamwork is extraordinarily important and it's very fun to talk tactics with your teammates. (Considering they do listen and care)
- Historical Tanks (Sherman, Tiger, Panther, T-34 etc.)
- Weapon animations are snappy and smooth, simply toptier stuff
- Sound effects are damn good
- Some classes have their own unique skills (Engineer building nodes, that are resources for the team and defenses like bunkers, sandbags etc.)

Neutral:
- Server Queue seems like a useless feature, like why do I need a queue to join a server that has for example 70/100 players? It's just illogical
- Trolls can ruin your games, but very fortunately I haven't met that many in my 120+ hours of gameplay.
- Some player character head models are questionable

Cons:
- Bugs can occur like clipping issues and flying objects
- Some textures quality are still very low even on Max settings.
- LOD issues
- FPS issues
- Zooming in rifle scopes or binoculars drops your frames inhumanely
- Some people simply won't listen and just do the dumbest thing that could cost the entire match.
- Sometimes you can find matches where people are not willing to play either as a commander or as officers/squad leaders
- Vivox voice chat is a trembling mess, most of the time it works for me, but rarely, when it decides to bug out game breakingly, I'm no longer able to hear or talk to my teammates only with text which is very much irritating.

8/10 It's certainly not a perfect game that's for sure, but I think this may be one of the best WW2 online shooter I've ever played so far in my life. When you find a team that is communicative, you'll be winning games very easily and you'll enjoy it a ton, but of course, this game is not for everybody since you do not play it like a COD or Battlefield.

Damn good game even with its flaws, ever since I picked up the game at Update 7 when Carentan first dropped, I had zero regrets. So I wholeheartedly recommend it, but for WW2 enthusiasts the most.
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