Deadly Dozen

"The Dozen aren't really deadly."

Introduction
I don't know how I came across this game, and I wish I hadn't! I lost interest in this game after a day of playing it. I will tell you why:

Story 0/10
What story? And why are we sending 4 men at a time to take out hundreds of Germans? Otherwise, this game is just a WW2 based First Person Shooter that is naked to everything else.

Graphics 7/10
This is the better part of Deadly Dozen. Everything is smooth, and everything is realistic, but not exactly to the best of it's ability. All the Germans look the same in their groups i.e. machine gunners all look the exact same. There are no creases on the uniforms, nothing but plain smoothness to the guns (not exactly a good thing when they look like they just came out of the shop). I wouldn't expect too much from the graphics, so don't count on being fully happy with them.

Sound 6/10
The sound annoys me so much, that I wish I could just smash the CD. When you give an order to your teammates, you sound like it is a happy time, and there is nothing wrong. You are under fire, yet he is so calm. The Germans yell sometimes, but after learning some German from school, I found that some of it is just random yelling when translated into English, with just random words that don't even form sentences. What brings it up again is the gunfire sounds. The guns sound realistic, and are the only part of the game that can actually be compared to real life sounds.

Controls 6/10
The controls take HOURS to learn. The movement is tough to adjust to also. There are so many important buttons that it makes me sick. Enough said.

Gameplay 4/10
The gameplay is absolutely horrible. If you want to have a fun game you have to decrease everything to it's lowest level of difficulty. If you try this game on Normal, one shot kills you. Easy: You can survive a machine gun burst, but it shakes you around so violently you can't orient yourself before another finishes you off. I don't even want to TRY hard mode. The guns are easy enough to aim with and use, but when you fire at a seemingly alone enemy, there always seems to be random Germans that pop up out of nowhere and blast you. There is always one path to take, and no alternate routes. There is a map though, with all the good it does. There are very simple objectives, which the simplicity takes away all the fun from the game. Deadly Dozen is just a simple point, shoot, and run game. Nothing else.

Overall 3/10
I don't think this game is good at all. I could not squeeze any fun out of this game, and never will. Stay with better WW2 games like Call of Duty.

Buy or Rent?
Neither

Reviewer's Score: 3/10, Originally Posted: 03/13/06