![]() Every soldier on the field has a role to play, and how well those roles are played and how well the different squads coordinate their attacks and defenses-as opposed to who gets the most kills-are what truly determines the outcome of every match. ![]() Based on real battles of World War II (the developers have even recreated the locations of these battles on a 1:1 scale), Hell Let Loose is a 100-player first-person shooter with a deep strategy metagame. Not only does it run surprisingly well on console (for the most part), but the players that I’ve interacted with seemed more than willing to give in to the game’s charms and accept that, instead of being a super soldier on the battlefield, they were merely one of a hundred pawns fulfilling their particular roles.īefore getting into the specifics about the console version, let’s look at Hell Let Loose in general and why it’s possibly the most engaging shooter to come to consoles in a long time. It’s clear after playing Hell Let Loose on the Xbox Series X that my fears on both counts were unfounded. PC players are used to playing niche, complex shooters console gamers are too used to frag fests like Battlefield and Call of Duty and battle royale games like PUBG, Fortnite, and Warzone to accept something as laborious as Hell Let Loose. But my uncertainty about Hell Let Loose making it to console had mostly to do with the audience it would find there. Even as the new Xboxes and PlayStation launched, I didn’t think it was possible to get that game working properly on a console. Part of that was because of the performance issues I experienced on a PC that could more than handle the game’s demands. Hell Let Loose is also a game that I just never thought would come to consoles. It’s a shooter where K/D isn’t everything, that offers ways to play other than firing your gun. ![]() It’s a game that requires teamwork, patience, and communication. It presented the kind of experience that I’d been craving for a while now-a more grounded, realistic version of a genre that Battlefield and Call of Duty have moved away from. In particular, it’s Black Matter Studios’ World War II shooter that made me want to finally build my first gaming-ready PC. But as I got older and my go-to franchises like Halo and Battlefield started to lose me, my eyes began wandering over to PC gaming, where I could find the next evolution of shooters in the more strategic, hardcore titles-namely, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam and Hell Let Loose. Over the last three decades, consoles have fulfilled almost all of my gaming needs, especially with the rise of Xbox Live and online gaming. I’ve been a console gamer since I was four years old and my dad bought me a Nintendo Entertainment System. Hell Let Loose will throw you in the middle of the battlefield! Read moreNote: This review has been updated from the original version and given a final score. Experience every role and aspect of a world war combat. Choose to become an officer, a machine gunner, a scout, a medic, an engineer, or a tank commander. ![]() You have at your disposal a variety of weapons, vehicles, and equipment useful in battles. You can play as infantry, recon, armored units, or anywhere you’re skilled in. You can choose from fourteen different playable characters. Capturing a sector generates one of three resources for your team thus creating a meta-game that influences your team’s victory. This allows for an emergent and constantly unique gameplay experience that puts two army forces against each other in a fight to the death in fields, bridges, forests, and nearby towns. The battlefield is divided into large capture sectors. Hell Let Loose features maps modeled from real reconnaissance images and satellite data. It’s complete with player-controlled vehicles, unit-focused gameplay, and a dynamically evolving front line. The game puts you in the middle of chaos, in the middle of war itself. If you want a real simulation of what happened in the second World War, then Hell Let Loose is perfect for you. Hell Let Loose is a realistic WWII first-person shooter with open battles for over 100 players with infantry, artillery, tanks, dynamic shifting front line, and a resource-based strategic meta-game.
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