It's actually quite arcade-y in nature and suffers from the same woes of a lot of FPSs, in the sense that your character seems to have unlimited stamina, but struggles to vault simple fences at times.Īside from the teamplay and the RTS-inspired game modes, one of the areas that Hell Let Loose really sets itself apart from competitors is in its battlefield authenticity. The same applies for the movement for the most part.
You can't play this game like you would Battlefield or Call of Duty, but the gunplay is still designed to a high enough quality that you never feel hindered by the system. With Hell Let Loose being a shooter, you'll be glad to know that the game mechanics are incredibly tight, and feel responsive and fluid. Needless to say, it's ambitious and basically requires an active and engaged community to find success, but it has managed to do so, and in return, you get a WW2 shooter that is unique from the pack. What Hell Let Loose asks is that players coordinate to capture various locations and resources to push the lines of war in their favour - and because the lobbies are 100v100 for the most part, you get an unprecedented level of communication required to achieve victory effectively. This title uses an RTS-inspired set of game modes, where players will have to work together and communicate incredibly effectively to be able to succeed. It's the sort of design that wouldn't last ten minutes in EA or Activision's series, but for Hell Let Loose, it's its greatest strength. Time-to-kill values are incredibly low, meaning you will die in an instant, the maps are large, enemy players will hide in every nook and cranny to rack up kills, and the game modes require a ton of communication between your team to find success. You see, unlike Battlefield V or Call of Duty: WWII, which are fast-paced arcade-like shooters in an FPS sense, Hell Let Loose is one of the most authentic representations of the genre.
With prior knowledge to the shooter genre, there isn't much in a mechanical sense to learn besides the fundamentals of movement and using firearms, so it's not exactly an issue that the tutorial is missing, but considering the way that Hell Let Loose plays, a little training and warning would go a very, very long way.
Booting up the game takes you to the main menu where you have to join a server, most of which are run by members of the community, to get right into the action. There's no narrative or storyline, in fact there isn't even a tutorial. Hell Let Loose is a multiplayer shooter through and through.