Minor shortcomings, quite enjoyable nevertheless!

User Rating: 8 | World of Tanks PC
This is easily the best "free" game I've ever played. It's true that this "freemium" game is trying to get you to still spend money on premium items, by giving certain advantage to players who own those. But I still don't think that's a valid reason to bash it. If you have a relatively weak vehicle in the current game tier spread, you need to learn to extract maximum advantage from team play. You can choose to tag along a heavy tank and assist with kills, do scouting, or be extra selective when choosing a hiding spot for your SPG. Yes it can be a challenge and makes "acquisition" of your next virtual vehicle a lengthy process (so gadget happy types will be tempted to cough up some money and buy that stuff), but look, it's not the objective of the game (at least for me) to upgrade your tank at maximum possible speed. Graphics is good (and can be taxing on mediocre graphics cards), learning curve is not so bad, teamwork (when it happens, which is not always) can be quite rewarding, and the music score is quite good. I wish there were other types of combat units available (some infantry, and some light vehicles for scouting) but I suppose they could only do so much for this release.