Verdun

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 155 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 110 out of 155
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 155
  3. Negative: 22 out of 155

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  1. dankMemesInc
    Oct 16, 2016
    0
    I have 51 hours in this game and I've been playing since the ALPHA that game out several years ago. The game showed promise back then. So what have they done with the game 4 years later? Add new guns and horrible map. Every new map they've put out since they alpha has just been horrid and are universally reviled by the community. Flanders... Champagn... Douaumont... just horrible.I have 51 hours in this game and I've been playing since the ALPHA that game out several years ago. The game showed promise back then. So what have they done with the game 4 years later? Add new guns and horrible map. Every new map they've put out since they alpha has just been horrid and are universally reviled by the community. Flanders... Champagn... Douaumont... just horrible.

    That's besides the point, in the past few years all they've done is add new content, when this base game still feels like an alpha. The graphics are pure piss, the gun sounds sound like they're recorded from a drum set, but nothing compares to express how horrible the controls are... They aren't "realistic" they're just clunky and broken.

    So why do people love this embarrassment of a game? Same reason I play it: it's the only ww1 game on the market. Once an actual good trench warfare ww1 game comes out this game will poof from existence. They seemed to have dodged the very large bullet that is battlefield 1 since bf1 isn't about trench combat, thus this game probably has another 2 years left in its life.    … Expand
  2. 97_mario_97
    Mar 26, 2014
    0
    I've put many hours into this game in hope it will become a decent ww1 fps shooter but it just feels unpolished and bland. I got fps issues in the game after some update despite the fact that the graphics look horrible. The graphics are just horrenderously bad as if my graphics card is throwing up, the character design looks depressing and the animations are terrible and make you laughI've put many hours into this game in hope it will become a decent ww1 fps shooter but it just feels unpolished and bland. I got fps issues in the game after some update despite the fact that the graphics look horrible. The graphics are just horrenderously bad as if my graphics card is throwing up, the character design looks depressing and the animations are terrible and make you laugh out. The sound effects are mediocore, the map design looks bland and uninspired. The game is utterly generic and the playerbase is laughably tiny. I know it's still in beta but i'm pretty sure that almost nothing will change in the future, it will even get worse. I'm done with this garbage.… Expand
  3. halafradrimx
    Sep 22, 2014
    3
    This game, at first, looked really interesting and thrilling. Couldn't be more wrong, though.

    Even though it have realistic weaponry, it lacks the key point of WW1 and why it ended : The use of means to support infantry during combat. Planes and tanks, in other words. Without it, the game is some repetitive "King of The Hill" sort of game. Nothing too much wrong with that, so far.    This game, at first, looked really interesting and thrilling. Couldn't be more wrong, though.

    Even though it have realistic weaponry, it lacks the key point of WW1 and why it ended :

    The use of means to support infantry during combat. Planes and tanks, in other words.

    Without it, the game is some repetitive "King of The Hill" sort of game. Nothing too much wrong with that, so far. Add that with the fact that PING comes into a decisive part of the game; unbalanced sides favoring the Entente Power; useless german weaponry; one-shot kill Entente rifles NEVER MISSING; lack of variety in strategy; no tutorial to familiarize with the game; dirty gas mask lenses; teamwork always lacking and, most of all, taking 5 Lurger bullets to kill a single soldier, makes this game just plain frustrating and stressing, quite the opposite of what it's intended to.

    I see no reason to buy this game. If you would want to buy it, nevertheless, please, WATCH the GAMEPLAY BEFORE DOING SO!

    As a thumb rule : If buying a FPS game, double check it before. It could spare you a lot of frustration.    … Expand
  4. PowerGamer
    May 13, 2015
    3
    In a nutshell: A hardly playable, glitchy,stalling/lagging, bad animation, mess of an online FPS.
    I really wanted to like this game but after about 9 hours over a few sessions of trying I gave up.
    A lot of people are still drinking the kool-aid, but given a few more hours they should wake up. The game must not be optimized at all, and, or they made very poor choices for core engine    In a nutshell: A hardly playable, glitchy,stalling/lagging, bad animation, mess of an online FPS.
    I really wanted to like this game but after about 9 hours over a few sessions of trying I gave up.
    A lot of people are still drinking the kool-aid, but given a few more hours they should wake up.

    The game must not be optimized at all, and, or they made very poor choices for core engine structure when they put this thing together.

    The biggest problem is the glitchy/out-of-syncness that you experience in this game, regardless of your ping or graphics settings, etc.
    It is as if the game only has a few preset canned animations that are forced into what ever action you are doing.

    An example that you'll endure repeat over again is when your fighting head to head with someone.
    You might see four frames of animation at best. Someone will shoot and someone will die with out much of an indication why. No muzzle flash, nothing..
    Then other times you are fighting on the edges of a tench and you are shot at while your enemy is pointing up in the air.
    Any sense of being there, of immersion, is lost most of the time.

    And then the balance and a lot of the game design choices are horrible.
    Apparently when you level up you gain an almost god-like edge.
    You'll see people with mid to high levels all the time with ridiculous kill to death ratios of 50/1 etc.
    And then a sniper hits you half way across the map for no apparent reason.
    Okay if you have some ridiculous mechanics like this in the game then at least separate the battles into ranges/classes or automatically adjust somehow.
    Reminds of the idiom: "bring a knife to a gunfight"
    Although what I could have been seeing were aimbots or some other hacks, which again would be even more sadder meaning no anti-cheat system.

    Then there are four (as I recall before I uninstalled) base classes/roles that are uninspiring and pretty pointless.
    One example is the default "commander" class. You start with a pistol and binoculars.
    First off all this pretty much relegates you to be a trench fighter only, and then you can't do anything really meaningful with the binoculars. You can direct your squad to attack, which is unrewarded and everyone ignores anyhow, or you can direct a mortar attack that does nothing and all so ignored.

    At least the idea of a WW1 style trench battle is unique. And that's all you do, fight in a handful of tench maps over and over.

    This game feels like a poor alpha state concept game.
    Maybe in a year or so (if there is still anyone around in it) it might be okay..    … Expand
  5. praphael
    Jun 16, 2015
    1
    Game ran horribly on my system which isn't exactly low end (core i5, GeForce 680), even on reduced settings and low resolution.

    This made it hard for me to get kills. The few times I was able to actually get a target on site before being killed, the lag was so bad there was no way to really aim well. Its also extremely beginner unfriendly. It is really difficult to tell whos on    Game ran horribly on my system which isn't exactly low end (core i5, GeForce 680), even on reduced settings and low resolution.

    This made it hard for me to get kills. The few times I was able to actually get a target on site before being killed, the lag was so bad there was no way to really aim well.

    Its also extremely beginner unfriendly. It is really difficult to tell whos on your team or not - from what I coudl gather, experienced players would just shoot at anyone in the general direction of where they expected the enemy to be - which means you pretty much had to memorize the map. Either that or they were cheating. You'll also be killed pretty quickly. My experience was I typically had about 5-10 seconds before being shot. A few times I was even killed on spawn.

    Bottom line, there are much better FPS out there, don't waste your cash here    … Expand
  6. Synthetic
    Jun 14, 2015
    4
    This game is pants! I was hoping it would be like Call of Duty World At War but in a WW1 infantry setting. As soon as the first menu popped up and I noticed spelling mistakes I knew this was an amateur effort. The AI and animation is so comical that it's off-putting. As most of the shots are 1-shot kills just as you raise your head above the trenches you seem to spend most of the timeThis game is pants! I was hoping it would be like Call of Duty World At War but in a WW1 infantry setting. As soon as the first menu popped up and I noticed spelling mistakes I knew this was an amateur effort. The AI and animation is so comical that it's off-putting. As most of the shots are 1-shot kills just as you raise your head above the trenches you seem to spend most of the time waiting to spawn again - that's a yawnful experience. It feels like a game that was developed in the late 90's. If only they'd bought the game engine from Treyarch it could've been so much more. Loads of potential, but badly executed.… Expand
  7. sschulyna
    May 30, 2015
    0
    After 30h playing:graphics from the 90's ,full of bugs and glitches..........ok concept but rubbish finalisation.Not reccomended,unless the only games you ever plated are pacman and tetris,then you will not fell any difference in graphics,game control and general responses
  8. Tork202
    Jun 3, 2022
    1
    Полностью онлайновая игра без режима ботов? Oказалось что в вв1 люди воевали и убивали друг друга не и за интepecoв гocyдарств а и за просто желания пострелять поубивать ради развлчечения?

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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. IGN Spain
    Mar 31, 2016
    73
    Traveling back in time is a nice thing especially when things are done well. That's the case of Verdun, a nice FPS that changes the way we use to play games on the genre. It's not spectacular or overpopulated, but enjoyable.
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  2. PCWorld
    Jan 20, 2016
    80
    No game has ever captured the feel of trench-based warfare as well as Verdun.
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  3. SpazioGames
    Oct 21, 2015
    70
    An honest shooter with a well built multiplayer soul, that does exactly what was promised by the developers and has some similarities with the Red Orchestra series. Not exactly a technical marvel, but a good game nonetheless.
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