It’s also multiplayer centred, with no story or single player campaign. It’s all designed with the aim of immersing you in the less glamorous, but infinitely more real life of a soldier over 100 years ago. Aiming your pistol will have your hand swaying like a drunk stumbling home from a speakeasy. Rifles take an age to fire and reload, with your sights often betraying your reflex aim. It’s an FPS where your movement is slow, laboured even. Unlike the Call of Duty’s and more recent Battlefields of the world, Isonzo is going for the boots on the ground, gritty and realistic approach to the Great War. Does it have the pop of a Sicilian lemon or does it cower like a rookie facing their first hail of gunfire? Over The Top Myself and Josh were given the opportunity to scope out Isonzo’s gritty conflict, popping headshots, donning gas masks and charging bayonette first into the sun-kissed fields of Italy. Isonzo then, has a slightly uphill struggle to overcome people’s weariness of older shooters, while also meeting the high bars set from other entries over the last couple decades. It was certainly allied by having a PS+ release, enticing would be recruits to enlist in the old-school battlegrounds once again. Most recently, Hell Let Loose – released in 2021 – did a great job in reinvigorating people’s enthusiasm for the classic warfare of World War II. The stunning vineyards and mountainous terrain should be ripe as theatres for bombastic battles and gritty action, and while the conflict of World War I has become less appealing in the modern age of gaming, could it still have weary legs? Does it hit the mark? The Finger Guns Review.ĭespite being a key battleground in both World Wars, Italy has always been a bit underserved when it comes to video game action. Miles and Josh dive into the trenches of WW1 Italy of Isonzo. Does it hit the mark? The Finger Guns Review. Miles and Josh dive into the trenches of WW1 Italy.
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