The idea with Turning Point Fall or Liberty was good, but the execution sucked.
User Rating: 4 | Turning Point: Fall of Liberty PS3
Turning Point Fall of Liberty is a world war 2 first person shooter that the Germans won the war and are attacking the U.S.A. You play as a construction worker that managed to get a gun and starts to fight back. This was a cool idea but was very poorly executed. The gameplay of Turning Point is not fun at all because of bad AI, boring weapons and locations, and a bad controls. The AI is one of the games biggest flaws. They just stand there and watch you shoot there brains out. They don't do anything to give too big of challenge and fire fights with them just get repetitive. Your allies are not much better. In combat they will just run in and get themselves shot. They won't do much to take cover from enemy fire and don't help much at all. Shooting guys in Turning Point is not fun. You really just stand there and shoot. The guns you use are all basic. There is just rifles, mechine guns, and pistols. Handling the guns with the controls is terrible. My biggest complaint is that R2 is the shooting button. Every first person shooter on the PS3 should shoot with R1. Square sometimes works but not R2. Also there isn't a melee button which is annoying. The control was just not thought through. Recoil on the guns is unrealistic and annoying. For rifles every second or third shot sends the gun flying upwards. The recoil on the Tommy gun is the most annoying. The gun flies up when you shoot so you have to aim down making you miss about 80% of the time. The locations in Turning Point are boring. There is New York, Washington and a few other places. Something good in the gameplay is that you can grapple the enemies. When you do that you can eather use them as a human shield or instantly kill them. Whats stupid about the instant kill is what he does to kill them is usually not in any way fatal. He would punch then in the face or hit them in the rib. And they die from that! The grapple is cool but it replaces a melee attack, which would suit the game better and is used in much better games, giving you an even better reason to play a better game. The graphics in turning point are reasonably bad. They just look so bland and boring. The locations are in this depressing, slate kind of colour. The characters don't look that good ether and the frame rate is bad. The sound are just as cheep as the rest of the game. The gun sounds crappy and there are alot of explosions but you don't hear much. The story line has a good idea, as I said before, but does not make much sense and isn't followed through with. There was a part an America solider said you go ahead I'll take care of this injured guy. Yeah so they make the people they're protecting do the fighting. Turning Point actually has a multi-player, but it was just thrown in. There is death match and team death match and very few stages. There is also online play, but good luck finding a game because there is almost no reason to play on line. I've heard it crashes a lot too. Turning Point Fall of Liberty has very few redeeming factors and I think I mentioned the bulk of them. My advice on Turning Point Fall of Liberty? Turn away.
