Wanted to like this one more than I did because at the start it looks like a huge upgrade from the first one but the problems quickly become apparent as it goes on.
Enemies spam grenades even more than they actually fire their rifles at you and they have ridiculously perfect aim. On top of this they removed the ability to throw grenades back, so most of the time you are relying on your insanely stupid and ridiculously slow AI companions to throw grenades back. Friendly fire is way less forgiving for how much damage you need to do to get sent back to a checkpoint and allies are often running straight by your line of fire or straight up coming from the same direction as the enemy. Not a fan of the reliance on ADS as hipfire (even with automatics) is basically fucking useless now and if your guy gets shot once his head flies straight up in the air and you can't hit anything at all. Also this might be a problem with formatting the game to modern resolutions but it feels like the sights on a lot of guns are not accurate and enemies are either not stunned by hit shots or straight up not hit at all. I like a lot of the campaigns settings and level gimmicks but after D-Day it completely devolves into moving through varations of the same french village with infinitely respawning enemies over and over again. Character constantly gets stuck on random geometry on the ground as well. Never really really capitalizes on a lot of the fantastical and varied imagery you can do with the western europe front like the first one did.
Despite this it does a lot of things right. The lighting, texturework and particle effects are gorgeous and easily outdo most games today. It's probably the only time I've seen a game do a checkpoint system like this and it work completely, always saved when it was convenient and never put me in a spot where I'd die upon reload even when checkpointing me in out in front of enemies. I genuinely have no idea how they did it. Even if it responsible for a lot of the series' later failures its hard to be mad at it because it does so much right.
Enemies spam grenades even more than they actually fire their rifles at you and they have ridiculously perfect aim. On top of this they removed the ability to throw grenades back, so most of the time you are relying on your insanely stupid and ridiculously slow AI companions to throw grenades back. Friendly fire is way less forgiving for how much damage you need to do to get sent back to a checkpoint and allies are often running straight by your line of fire or straight up coming from the same direction as the enemy. Not a fan of the reliance on ADS as hipfire (even with automatics) is basically fucking useless now and if your guy gets shot once his head flies straight up in the air and you can't hit anything at all. Also this might be a problem with formatting the game to modern resolutions but it feels like the sights on a lot of guns are not accurate and enemies are either not stunned by hit shots or straight up not hit at all. I like a lot of the campaigns settings and level gimmicks but after D-Day it completely devolves into moving through varations of the same french village with infinitely respawning enemies over and over again. Character constantly gets stuck on random geometry on the ground as well. Never really really capitalizes on a lot of the fantastical and varied imagery you can do with the western europe front like the first one did.
Despite this it does a lot of things right. The lighting, texturework and particle effects are gorgeous and easily outdo most games today. It's probably the only time I've seen a game do a checkpoint system like this and it work completely, always saved when it was convenient and never put me in a spot where I'd die upon reload even when checkpointing me in out in front of enemies. I genuinely have no idea how they did it. Even if it responsible for a lot of the series' later failures its hard to be mad at it because it does so much right.