Amazing Madness & Mayhem

User Rating: 9.4 | Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich PC
My review is based on the following conditions : release version 1.0 + no campaigning + a lot of hero design + a lot of "rumbles" (= single-player skirmishes against the computer). System specs are : 2.8 GHz P4 + 1024 MB DDR RAM + GeForce FX 5200 with 128 MB VRAM + WinXP Home/SP2. Installation : No problem. Stability : No problem. Bugs : No problem (no crashes & no obvious bugs). Framerate : No problem. Graphics (outside of actual gameplay) : B+ (pretty & crisp cartoon look : not outstanding, but far from cheap) Graphics (inside the gameplay arena) : A+ (vivid & clean 3D look : outstanding !) Hero design : A+ (a lot of customization options = a lot of replay value !) Hero control : A- (once you learn how to move the heroes and the camera) Hero action : A+ (but beware of play-balance issues during hero design & selection) Sound : C- to C+ (the persistent & repetitive martial march pounded in the ears during pre-game selections & customizations rapidly gets very tiresome : turn the volume off until you get into the action). Recommendation : A+ (buy it, without reservations !)