Raid: World War II

 PC
Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. GameStar
    Nov 15, 2017
    65
    Raid: World War 2 copies Payday 2, but does little better and a lot of things worse than its role model. But the potential is there.
  2. GameGrin
    Oct 17, 2017
    65
    On a whole, RAID: World War II feels exactly like what you’d expect from a Payday clone. It takes less of a political approach than other games featuring Nazis such as Wolfenstein or the upcoming Call of Duty: WW2, and instead moves away from the war is hell narrative to opt for a more hyper-violent, stylised approach to the subject matter. While the choice of game engine severely lets itself down, there is still much to appreciate if you enjoy other co-operative shooters of its type.
  3. Game Informer
    Oct 12, 2017
    60
    Building off the success of Payday is a decent premise for Starbreeze to explore. Raid: World War II does not successfully lead a winning campaign, however. The poor A.I., repetitive design, and technical problems had me waving a white flag long before the war should have been over. If Starbreeze plans to turn this into a long-running service game, it has a lot of work to do.
  5. IGN
    Oct 18, 2017
    50
    Overall, I really like the theme and setting of RAID: WWII, especially considering its irreverent tone that evokes memories of Inglorious Basterds. But even though I’m a sucker for all things WWII, the bullet-spongy enemies, lackluster unlocks and customization, and poor mission variety don’t excite me enough to want to play beyond a few rounds. And while it’s putting the cart before the horse, without a strong community of users to drop into a raid with, there’s even less reason to stick it to Nazi Germany in this particular instance. Very little in RAID: WWII is absurdly broken or flawed, but its mediocrity makes it a missed opportunity to create a highly replayable co-op game within the WWII shooter genre.
  6. Polygon
    Oct 10, 2017
    35
    Raid: World War II disappoints on all levels. It’s not that one thing in particular is badly broken; it’s that so many aspects of the game are clumsy or incomplete. It made playing the game a chore, even in its best moments. Sometimes a terrible movie or game will still have things that make it enjoyable — hilariously cheesy dialogue or over-the-top action that I end up liking in spite of the low budget or poor production values. With Raid, there’s just nothing here for me, and I can’t imagine there being much here for anyone else.

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User Score
4.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 23
  3. Negative: 12 out of 23
  1. SuperkenGaming
    Oct 11, 2017
    3
    Raid: World War II
    more like you need raid for all of these bugs
    Raid World War 2 is a co-op shooter that can be played solo with 3 other ai    Raid: World War II
    more like you need raid for all of these bugs
    Raid World War 2 is a co-op shooter that can be played solo with 3 other ai controlled partners or online with up to 3 other players...
    You start choosing your class with your preferred weapon, you then choose one of 4 characters from your preferred country, and you get to raiding
    The idea of raid is a good one, there are 15 missions total... 6 operative missions that are objective based like killing a target or interfering with radio frequencies…
    And there are 9 raid missions which I felt are the much better parts of this game where you’ll be doing a variety of breaking and entering, collecting intel gold, or stealing a train…
    Completing missions or failing missions will give you different cut scenes of Hitler either happy or angry at the outcome, and you’re awarded xp to level up your character to unlock new perks and unlock perk cards for the different mission types with their own advantages and disadvantages to better suit your play style… you alter all of these things back at your camp which is where you choose your mission or hop into an ongoing mission…
    All of this sounds great…
    But poor gameplay makes all of this great mean nothing…
    Raid world war ii is a complete mess…
    shooting is stiff and clunky, enemies are far too easily alarmed, there’s real no enemy variety.. It’s just soldier or spongey soldier with a flame thrower that gives no indication they are even taking damage…
    They’ll walk over and on top of boxes like they aren’t even there making the stealth approach practically useless
    in missions are there are crates around with medical supplies for healing and ammo, and your teammates do a great job at reviving you which is all fine..
    But the missions structure just isn’t fun
    it’s a lot of get to an area, interact with an item and wait a little over a minute for the countdown to go down to move on and just do it again and again and again until the mission is over…
    thankfully the 9 raid missions are different enough to not make this feel like a complete drag.. But while in mission... you just want the never ending waiting to be over, as the gunplay in between these moments of interacting are just not fun…
    there’s no feeling of satisfaction or a knife through warm butter feeling a great first person shooter should give…
    and the game is littered with bugs… one bug freezing my character into place and had me flying around the room while I was getting shot.. I had to turn off my controller and turn it on again to get out of this lock…
    The game also crashed on me while trying to join a session which is bad enough on its own... made worst by this game forcing you to watch a choppy cut scene every time you start the game up like its 1996
    And after the game crashed the button to interact with the mission select or any of the upgrade tables wasn’t responding forcing me to back out into the menu and rejoin…
    RAID World War 2 is a cool concept, with poor execution
    I give RAID World War 2 a 3.5/10    … Full Review »
  2. Shenlor
    Aug 18, 2023
    8
    RAID opened my long time closed doors, but showed me the sad truth. From beta until now, I've enjoyed the game and still will enjoy, I willRAID opened my long time closed doors, but showed me the sad truth. From beta until now, I've enjoyed the game and still will enjoy, I will never see this concept again and I love the aspect of classic FPS, despite the fact that I will probably be alone often. Because really crazy things are happening in today's gaming industries, and a lot of bad things went down on RAID. I'm a 90s player and I have a different view of how it works today and what puppets live among us today, and humans are real monsters, they didn't give the developers a chance, but they tried to fix and bring new all that stuff, improved engine more than PD2 and no, it's not reskin PD2!! (such nonsense could be said about GTA series for example). I remember the difference about the issues on release and now. But maybe it was also a bad decision that was made. Maybe a bigger advertisement should have been made to attract other audiences to the game instead of the PD community. Maybe they shouldn't have trusted the PD community. Maybe they should have coughed up at the console. Maybe they should have choose a different engine. Or they should split the game on a base and DLC. But now everything is gone. Wonderful updates, and new content (which was supposed to be free! for God's sake!!). But now everything is gone. And I'll just think and cry over all the good that could be in this undervalued game.

    I will remember LionGameLion    … Full Review »
  3. El_Barto87
    Sep 20, 2018
    8
    Raid tries to be unlike Payday 2 and gives the player a whole scattering of new game mechanics. Therefore, the gameplay in the game is simplyRaid tries to be unlike Payday 2 and gives the player a whole scattering of new game mechanics. Therefore, the gameplay in the game is simply excellent. But because of the terrible graphics and technical problems, the game evokes a feeling of a very bad reskin of Payday 2.

    The ambiguous feeling is caused by the system of maps, which is worth further elaboration.
    The game has a huge potential, and I want to believe that the game will live.    … Full Review »
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