GameLight - Warface (Officially Out)

Official Site: http://www.warface.com/
Source: Youtube Channel warfacegame

Almost 3 years ago, I posted about a game called Warface and explained how great it looked, visually.  Just yesterday, the game officially released internationally after extensive beta testing.  The free-to-play cooperative/competitive online multiplayer First-Person Shooter has been in the works for over 3 years and is finally available to play.  The weird part of getting the game was that it all ran and played in your browser.  I guess that's kind of cool?  The problem is that it still installs assets onto your hard drive without really telling you where it goes.  It also warns that the game will "Read everything on your hard drive" much like Electronic Art's digital distribution platform "Origin" does.  It does make me feel uneasy that it has permission to "read everything" off my hard drive, because there really isn't a need for it to.  Ignoring those two aspects about starting up the game, signing up is very easy: Username, Password, email.  Once the game starts up, the player can choose different faces, gender and name for their character.  The player will then be put through a short tutorial explaining the very basics of the game's mechanics.  Once that's done, the player can choose to play a Cooperative game or Versus mode.  Cooperative has you and a few other players running through missions to clear out computer AI hostiles.  You watch each others backs and take out baddies on rooftops while your buddies are taking care of ground level guys.  You can help injured team mates up and even revive them if you're a medic.  There are 4 classes to choose from and each role helps the team carry out the mission: Assault, Medic, Engineer and Sniper.  Players can help each other up higher platforms and carry them up as well.  Cooperative mode is an interesting idea, but if there isn't more scenarios and levels provided in the near future, it can get pretty boring.  Versus mode is probably where most of the replay value will come from with various weapons, levels, modes, and players put into play.  There are death matches and other modes such as bomb mode which is reminiscent of Counter-Strike where one side plants a bomb while the other side prevents it from being planted or blown up.  Level designs having a similar flow and theme to Counter-Strike while the game mechanics feel like a cross between Call of Duty and the newer Battlefield games.  Players can vault over certain obstacles, scale up small walls, and slide to cover.  The aim-down sight, recoil, spray, and sound of the guns feel a bit like Battlefield 3 while the amount of hits you can take, mobility and close encounters feel closer to Call of Duty.  The knife and grenade must be switched to utilize rather than having an immediate throw or stab towards the enemy and so is closer to Counter-Strikes item usage.  Overall, I felt the game has a nice sense of quality to it and I had a bit of fun trying it out.  I'm not very happy about accepting the terms of giving permission to read my hard drive, not with all the problems with hackers and identity thefts nowadays.  Logging in through a browser was one thing that turned me off from playing Nexon games for a while until they introduced it on the Steam platform for convenience, so I'm not very happy about having to log in through a browser over a client.  If you're interested in checking out the game, click on the top link and sign-up, login, and play directly in your browser.  The game isn't compatible with all browsers (such as Opera), so keep in mind that you may need to download Google Chrome to get it to work.