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New game out, WW1 multiplayer shooter. This thing is a treasure. It's also jank.
You can play as Hitler.
Over the Top comes fromt he creators of Battle Cry of Freedom, an American Civil War ripoff of Holdfast, ie a trash meme game until they added Commander Mode (a vastly improved ripoff of Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars) which was for two weeks the best thing I had ever played and then the fanbase died. The fans of the company were absolutely furious when they stopped development, and I thought making a WW1 game this late after the centennial/Battlefield 1 wave was a ohrrible mistake, but then I saw it was getting rave reviews.
Turns out it's basically the best thing you're going to get with the philosophy of Battlefield 1 but limited to actual real WW1 weapons.
The game is a mess of different influences. It has ideas from Battlefield, Rising Storm, Holdfast and WW1 Game Series, but the big thing is you have the ability to entrench as pretty much all classes, so it's also Fortnite. Of course it's exaggerated beyond all belief, you're entrenching in the middle of a battle, but you can and will see people dig trench lines. The terrain is deformable, and it results in every single match becoming a horrific clusterfuck with no map design. Verdun was good at selling what a chaos world No Man's Land is, and this takes it up to 11, Moon surface doesn't even sell it, absolute madness.
But what warms my heart is you also get to play with tanks and biplanes, which most of these sorts of things don't do, and they're actually accurate. Like in Battlefield, as part of it being any other Battlefield game but with a WW1 skin, tanks were tanks. Well, WW1 tanks weren't tanks, they were glorified farm equipment that moved at the pace of a snail. Tank doctrine was actually functionally more like a siege tower/battering ram in spirit, you have men ride in the tank, crouch behind the tank, if it's muddy it unspools duckboard from behind it to set down roads for rapid advance, and the whole point is this piece of shit can tank machine guns because, in real life, effective anti-tank weaponry is also rare (go figure), and the whole purpose is just to get to the other side.
Tanks in this handle perfectly. The gunplay is fucking shit (if you like Holdfast this wont' bother you, you have low standards already), but the tanks FEEL like you're driving a suck-ass tractor, they're actually pretty dang sturdy and you're mostly not having tank-vs-tank duels but using them for the intended purpose: bobbing up and down over the chaos landscape, crushing barbed wire, if you can get behind their lines mowing them down, using it as a mobile spawn. They feel right for what they should be doing. The planes? Well, I'm not used to doing planes with a mouse and keyboard, so I suck at it, but they're there.
You also do, like any of these things, get to play dress-up with the obligatory Highlanders and fruity red pants on French soldiers and turbaned Sikhs/Pashtos and what not, but the real kicker, is YOU CAN PLAY AS HITLER. It has a moustache option labelled "Austrian Painter" and it's a Hitler moustache.
YOU CAN PLAY AS HITLER.
You can play as Hitler.
Over the Top comes fromt he creators of Battle Cry of Freedom, an American Civil War ripoff of Holdfast, ie a trash meme game until they added Commander Mode (a vastly improved ripoff of Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars) which was for two weeks the best thing I had ever played and then the fanbase died. The fans of the company were absolutely furious when they stopped development, and I thought making a WW1 game this late after the centennial/Battlefield 1 wave was a ohrrible mistake, but then I saw it was getting rave reviews.
Turns out it's basically the best thing you're going to get with the philosophy of Battlefield 1 but limited to actual real WW1 weapons.
The game is a mess of different influences. It has ideas from Battlefield, Rising Storm, Holdfast and WW1 Game Series, but the big thing is you have the ability to entrench as pretty much all classes, so it's also Fortnite. Of course it's exaggerated beyond all belief, you're entrenching in the middle of a battle, but you can and will see people dig trench lines. The terrain is deformable, and it results in every single match becoming a horrific clusterfuck with no map design. Verdun was good at selling what a chaos world No Man's Land is, and this takes it up to 11, Moon surface doesn't even sell it, absolute madness.
But what warms my heart is you also get to play with tanks and biplanes, which most of these sorts of things don't do, and they're actually accurate. Like in Battlefield, as part of it being any other Battlefield game but with a WW1 skin, tanks were tanks. Well, WW1 tanks weren't tanks, they were glorified farm equipment that moved at the pace of a snail. Tank doctrine was actually functionally more like a siege tower/battering ram in spirit, you have men ride in the tank, crouch behind the tank, if it's muddy it unspools duckboard from behind it to set down roads for rapid advance, and the whole point is this piece of shit can tank machine guns because, in real life, effective anti-tank weaponry is also rare (go figure), and the whole purpose is just to get to the other side.
Tanks in this handle perfectly. The gunplay is fucking shit (if you like Holdfast this wont' bother you, you have low standards already), but the tanks FEEL like you're driving a suck-ass tractor, they're actually pretty dang sturdy and you're mostly not having tank-vs-tank duels but using them for the intended purpose: bobbing up and down over the chaos landscape, crushing barbed wire, if you can get behind their lines mowing them down, using it as a mobile spawn. They feel right for what they should be doing. The planes? Well, I'm not used to doing planes with a mouse and keyboard, so I suck at it, but they're there.
You also do, like any of these things, get to play dress-up with the obligatory Highlanders and fruity red pants on French soldiers and turbaned Sikhs/Pashtos and what not, but the real kicker, is YOU CAN PLAY AS HITLER. It has a moustache option labelled "Austrian Painter" and it's a Hitler moustache.
YOU CAN PLAY AS HITLER.
, only 8GB.
