Enemy Front

#2719. Some say the biggest Axis blunder of the war was the delayed start of Operation Barbarossa. Others claim it was the failure to coup de grace the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. Personally, I reckon the German habit of leaving explosive barrels around their factories and bases was a major factor in their defeat.

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Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied Poland...

Futile uprising.

Enemy Front's attempt to show a different side of war is thwarted by awful AI and behind-the-times combat that can't support the emphasis it puts on stealth and sniping. The multiplayer could have been a saving grace, but it's so threadbare that a sizable player community seems highly unlikely.

Set during the turbulent times of World War II, Enemy Front is the latest in a long line of first-person shooters to depict the horrors of one of history’s most fierce conflicts. Depicting the tale of a journalist named Robert Hawkins, you’ll team up with the American resistance as part of an effort to put an end to the Nazis once and for all.

Enemy Front is a game that tries to put a different spin on World War II, but fails due to a poor story, mediocre gunplay, awful AI, weak game mechanics, and a slew of technical problems. You can tell that CI Games is really trying here, but if this is the best they can do with the subject matter, they should stay out of World War II.

I wanted to like Enemy Front since despite my crack about Wolfenstein: The New Order at the beginning there is a gap in the market for a proper serious World War Two FPS that isn’t predominantly about sniping (Rebellion’s Sniper Elite 3 is out soon too). Unfortunately Enemy Front isn’t it, and in the 8-10 hours it takes to finish ironically I only really had fun playing it in the sniping moments. It plays like a poor man’s Call of Duty, copying everything except the stuff that makes t...