Hour of Victory

[Pratt75]

Re: Hour of Victory

It looks like they pulled this down from the marketplace. I went to download it when I got home and poof its gone. The negative backlash must have caused them to take it down. I don't think thats happened before.

[bkfount]

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It looks like they pulled this down from the marketplace. I went to download it when I got home and poof its gone. The negative backlash must have caused them to take it down. I don't think thats happened before.

well it's their fault. Don't release a demo of a ****ty game to a service like Live. The first thing most people did after playing it was post on a forum about how horrible it was.

If anything, they should have pushed it out to shelves, don't send a copy for review, and hope the morons don't catch on until a week or so.

[Eton Rifles]

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i watched a video from Gametrailers.com. It looked like COD2 with not quite as good graphics.

[Candyman5]

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i watched a video from Gametrailers.com. It looked like COD2 with not quite as good graphics.

it sucked!!!!!!!!!.....i hated it....i will stick to COD....right off the bat u had to move the look sensitivity up.....the minimap was terrible....and you couldnt c anything unless they shot at u first.....u also r like a bullet sponge...lol

[Flawless]

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Gamespot really liked this game. Check it out

[ExtremeGamer]

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Gamespot really liked this game. Check it out

Seriously? the link is blocked at work, but every other site hated it.

[Flawless]

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Seriously? the link is blocked at work, but every other site hated it.

I'm joking. They gave it a 2.

Hour of Victory is practically broken and has no business being on shelves in its current state.

The Good: Thankfully, no one is forcing you to play this game.

The Bad:
Entire game is full of bugs, ranging from clipping issues to full-on crashes
Ugly graphics make character faces look like hideous zombies
Easy, short levels do not give the game lasting value.

:y4:

[mgoblue]

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Seriously? the link is blocked at work, but every other site hated it.

Gamespot Review below:

GameSpot Score
2.0
terrible

Hour of Victory is practically broken and has no business being on shelves in its current state.
The Good

* Thankfully, no one is forcing you to play this game.

The Bad
see all demerits »

* Entire game is full of bugs, ranging from clipping issues to full-on crashes
* Ugly graphics make character faces look like hideous zombies
* Easy, short levels do not give the game lasting value.

Game Details | About Our Rating System

With a generic name that sounds like it was pulled out of a hat full of "World War II" words, it's easy to feel like Midway's Hour of Victory is nothing more than a shameless attempt to trick people who already purchased Call of Duty or Medal of Honor games. But Hour of Victory utterly fails at this attempt. On the disc lies a world where tanks clip through the ground, where the game randomly decides to stop working, and where clubbing someone with the back-end of a rifle is far more effective than actually firing it. Hour of Victory is broken in several spectacular ways; and no one, under any circumstances, should play this game.


There are different guns to use, but the melee attack is by far the best way to go.

A scattershot story ties the action together, but you embark on multiple campaigns that seem to jump from one part of the war to another, so it's hard to tell exactly when the game is supposed to take place. The advertising for this game invites you to "fight the famous battles of WWII," but you'd be hard-pressed to find one memorable or even historical battle here. At one moment, you're helping a scientist escape from a castle, but in another, you're attempting to prevent German soldiers from overloading a nuclear reactor and turning Berlin into some kind of radioactive disaster zone. The game's impossible to follow.

You'll take on the role of three different troops, each with their own specialties. Before most levels, you can choose to play as a sniper, a stealth guy, or an upfront fighter, and each has his own unique abilities. The sniper can deploy a grappling hook in a few spots, while the stealth guy can hide in shadows to become mostly invisible and pick locks. The commando can take more hits before he dies, and he can also push a few heavy objects around. Due to the game's many problems, the commando, being the most straightforward character of the bunch, is almost always the best choice because the ability to soak up more damage before going down is more useful than the occasional shortcut or high sniper spot you'll get with the other characters.

What else makes the commando the best choice? Well, all of the characters have melee attacks that eliminate enemies with one hit, which makes getting up close and personal with the game's idiotic enemies the fastest approach. The artificial intelligence is one of the many aspects of Hour of Victory that just feels broken. Enemies will ignore you completely, or sometimes they'll activate, fire a shot or two, and then stand there waiting for you to club them. Sometimes they'll just aimlessly run around in circles, waiting to die. While there's some unintentional comedy to be found in the enemy behavior, it's not enough to make the game worth playing. The game's levels are short, and even though there aren't enough checkpoints, it's easy to cruise through the game in a few hours.


How does a game so broken end up appearing on store shelves? We may never know.

To accompany the nearly unplayable single-player mode, there's also a nearly unplayable multiplayer mode that, in theory, allows up to 12 players to play three team-based modes. So far, the sparse online population means we have yet to play a game with a room with more than six players. Team deathmatch, capture the flag, and devastation are the three modes. Devastation is a bomb mode, where players fight to control a bomb and use it to blow up five enemy targets. The player movement in multiplayer feels skittish, and levels with drivable tanks are exceptionally broken because the tank control is nearly unmanageable. On top of that, tanks seem to occasionally drive up walls and get stuck at a diagonal angle. We also saw a tank get stuck in the ground, where it just sort of continually vibrated. If you got up close to this shaky tank, you would fall over dead for no good reason. The levels are designed with doors that are barely wide enough for your character to get through, causing you to constantly get hung up on walls or edges and such. It's a mess.

If you toss in an array of sound bugs and extremely ugly graphics, you've got an absolutely terrible game on your hands. It's sort of disgusting that Hour of Victory managed to make it through both Midway's QA department and Microsoft's approval process because garbage like this belongs in the gutter--not on shelves.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

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Hour of Victory is broken in several spectacular ways; and no one, under any circumstances, should play this game.

Ouch.

Those are among the most harsh words I've ever read in a game review. Gotta love the honesty.

[ExtremeGamer]

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A 2?! LMAO!!!! That's hilarious!

The demo was one of the worst demos I ever played, I assumed the game was the same. Now which is worse, Bulletwitch or Hour of Victory..LOL I'm sure Vampire Rain will be gunning for a 3 or 4 as well.

[SidVish]

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Haha! I don't think I've ever seen that harsh of a review. A 2 has to be some sort of record, doesn't it?

[mgoblue]

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A 2?! LMAO!!!! That's hilarious!

The demo was one of the worst demos I ever played, I assumed the game was the same. Now which is worse, Bulletwitch or Hour of Victory..LOL I'm sure Vampire Rain will be gunning for a 3 or 4 as well.

My favorite review ever was this 1.0 for Big Rigs on the PC...check out the video review, it's hilarious

Big Rigs on Gamespot

[ExtremeGamer]

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My favorite review ever was this 1.0 for Big Rigs on the PC...check out the video review, it's hilarious

Big Rigs on Gamespot

Totally agree, the review is better than the game!

[DickDalewood]

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I dl'd the demo a few weeks ago and played it... honestly, a 2 might be generous... It seriously might have been the worst 5 minutes of my life.

Absolutely terrible game...

[Eton Rifles]

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[QUOTE=mgoblue;3205733]My favorite review ever was this 1.0 for Big Rigs on the PC...check out the video review, it's hilarious

Big Rigs on Gamespot[/QUO


They need to play this game on the 1up show's " Broken pixels".