Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
PC, Xbox360, PS3 1/22/08


Well boys and girls strap on your helmets and get ready for war again. Many games have brought war to you in many different ways. In the end the story is always the same, you go to a foreign country, kick some ass, then get the heck out.
We have seen it a million times before done in a million ways and yet we still end up with the same game, just redone and put in a different wrapper. Don't get me wrong Call of Duty was a spectacular title, but even they saw it was getting a little redundant.

On that note I'll discuss a little World War 2 game that didn't look like all the others. The game is titled Turning Point: Fall of Liberty made by the people at Spark Unlimited. This game takes the WW2 genre to a whole other level to say the least. The year is 1953 and you are a construction worker in a little town known as New York City. One day while banging your hammer around you notice a Zeppelin flying around the area, "strange" you think to yourself. The next thing you know there are various waves of paratroopers falling from the skies above. Does anything seem different about this game yet? Yes, that is right "WE" are being invaded. What a new approach to a WW2 title I thought, them invading us.

Since America has never been invaded by an outside Country, I thought it was a good start to a great story line. The graphics look simply amazing on this title. In the one scene that you will see with the man in a taxi, notice the detail on the bricks that make up the city streets. Another thing in the same reel to look for is the part where our new hero actually looses his balance while climbing on top of some stacked up boxes. With graphics like this I can only hope that this will turn out to be a top shelf quality title. All I can do now is hope and pray for January 22 of next year gets here quickly.

Not since the Red Dawn movie of the mid 80s have I been so willing to defend America to the bitter end.

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