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Square Enix Collective is pleased to be bringing another game to its Nintendo Switch roster, with the launch of the gorgeous first-person puzzler The Turing Test on February 7th.

For those of you who remember, Battalion 1944 was announced in 2016 as a Kickstarter campaign for an old-school World War 2 competitive FPS that combined the best traits of Battlefield (destructible environments, large open maps) with the handling of older Call of Duty titles like CoD 3 or World at War. It released to not a lot of fanfare on the 1st of February, and it already has an overall “mixed” review score out of almost four thousand reviews. Not an auspicious start.

Seeing as it wasn’t too expensive, I bought and downloaded it. First impression was not good, as the launcher took eight minutes to actually launch the game (oh, and make sure it’s closed once you exit the game or else Steam thinks you’re still playing it). Getting into a match, the FPS was teeth-grindingly frustrating for about five minutes before everything started to run smoothly. The CoD 2-3 comparisons are apt when it comes to the graphics, but everything else is wholesale lifted from Counterstrike and newer CoDs, with zero weapons sway and bunnyhopping being the only viable tactics. The maps so far are alternately too large but too small for the gameplay, having every pathway easily buttoned up by riflemen that barely have to aim to be able to hit you and trenches easily locked down by machine guns spraying from around corners with little decrease in accuracy. Not at all what the kickstarter promised.

The main reason I ended up refunding the game, despite enjoying it somewhat, was mostly due to the devs themselves. Taking a stroll through the game’s discussions, I noticed many of the players were kickstarter backers complaining about not receiving keys or any other memorabilia despite paying upwards of a hundred bucks in some cases. The devs were nowhere to be seen, and according to their Kickstarter page the last update was on January 29th, with no interaction with commenters asking questions about not receiving keys. Seeing this, along with the clear downgrade in graphics from the footage used on the Kickstarter trailer (Jim Sterling’s use of the term “bullshot” comes to mind), really has me thinking that this project stopped being a major focus for this team once they made a certain amount of money off of their backers. And seeing as some of the more significant stretch goals were past the 325,000 mark (the campaign raised a total of 317,281 USD), I’m also thinking that they might have pulled a No Man’s Sky and promised more then they could deliver. Either way, to screw over those who paid over 35 bucks by not communicating and silently releasing the game for less than 15 bucks on Early Access is not a good look, along with day one DLC. 

The 10 Most Underappreciated Games of the Decade!

This time I’m going to put my focus on the games that don’t quite get the love and attention that they deserve. Some of these games may be highly rated by those that have experienced them. However, they don’t quite get the love and admiration that they should. This is what makes them underrated. Nobody can play every single game that releases but in my opinion, these are 10 games that are well…

Travel Back to The Battlefield of 1944 This Weekend in a Free Time Machine

Time to put on your Private Ryan persona as you travel back to Battlefield 1944 for some WW2 multiplayer action.

If you fancy going back to 1944 and having it out with the enemy whilst kitted out in WW2 finery – then this weekend has your name written all over it. Battlefield 1944 will be free-to-play this weekend (October 3, 6 pm BST – October 7, 5 pm BST) for PC users via Steam.

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BATTALION 1944 Free Download

BATTALION 1944 is an action adventure shooting and above all a multiplayer pc video game developed by Bulkhead Interactive and above all published by Square Enix. It is a action multiplayer genre pc video game developed for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and above all for Microsoft Windows on May 23, 2019. BATTALION 1944 is a classic remade of shooting and above all focusing on 5v5 infantry combat. The…

Battalion 1944 exits Early Access today for full release onto Steam with major update, “Eastern Front”

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