Turning Point: Fall of Liberty has an interesting premise, but the poor visuals and broken gameplay make this game suck.

User Rating: 1 | Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (Collector's Edition) X360
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty proves to be a good example of how a great concept doesn't always make for a great game. The game's premise is intriguing, though at the same time, it never happened: Hitler's Nazi army has issued an all-out assault on the U.S. Turning Point makes almost no use of this concept, as you'll find out rather early on. The result is a disastrously buggy and boring first-person shooter that shouldn't be recommended to anyone.

The game begins with your character working on the girders of an unfinished skyscraper in New York City as tons of Nazi planes swarm into view. Your character working construction is one of two things you find out about him during the course of the game (other than his name, Carson.) That's how much character progression you'll find throughout the entire game--that's simply unacceptable. There also aren't any memorable characters.

While the story failed to impress me, the setting has a few memorable moments. Your character gunning several waves of enemies down with a mounted machine gun in front of the ruined Chrysler Building is very powerful. However, most of the time you'll be fighting in dull buildings and underground corridors. This makes for some very dull set pieces that hinder the experience.

The combat feels like a poor imitation of Call of Duty. You can switch between two guns and two grenades as you go through linear levels, most of which require you to use the iron sights to take out a room full of enemies. The targeting system isn't very reliable, either, since it can't differentiate a headshot to a bullet to the leg. The iron sights take up most of the screen, making it hard to shoot.

Dragging the experience down more than ever are the awful visuals. Textures mostly look bland and don't have much detail. Character models look absolutely atrocious. The audio is at least somewhat good, with solid gun effects and good music.

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty is disastrously buggy and doesn't deserve anyone's attention. I haven't played the multiplayer, but I've heard it sucks. I don't say this about most games, but yes, this game sucks. Don't buy this game!

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