The Nazi’s chief enemy isn’t your in-game persona, resistance fighter Karl Stolz - it’s carelessness. They’ve stashed enough ammo around each level for you to decimate the fourth and fifth Reichs even if you only hit one out of a hundr🌊ed shots, making “spray and pray” a very practical tactic. And while baby-RPG stat-boosting elements, like XP rewards or invulnerability for scoring multiple headshots or melee kills within a short amount of time, could have mitigated things, they actually end up furthering the problem: While invulnerable, you’re rewarded for melee kills with XP you 😼can use to goose up your health and the amount of time you can stay invulnerable. Eventually, cover and tactics become pointless - you can attain godlike power by running around battles waving your knife back and forth.

The frenzied bloodbaths are adequate, althou🀅gh the game’s graphics are as badly animated as the title’s single “big battle” musical theme is repetitive. The closest thing to physics you’ll see is a moving barrel or box, but there are some most-excellent comic book-style cut-scenes. If the rest of this Nazi shooting gallery had as much flair as its between-level vignettes, UberSoldier II could have secured an uber-spot at the top of the bargain bin. As is, it’s much closer to the bottom.

PC Gamer scores games on a percentage scale, which is rounded to the closest whole number to determine the GamesRadar score.

PCG Final Verdict: 47% (tolerable)

Sep 30, 2008