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MY REVIEW OF THE FREE FPS COMBAT ARMS

Published December 6, 2008
4 out of 5 starsScore: 80/100
Combat Arms if a free fps that is really fun and will make you want to play more of it. If you want to download the game you can go to combatarms.nexon.net. Let's start with the good things about the game. This game has a lot of simularities with counter strike which is a really good thing. For an online fps the graphics are pretty good. There is a large variety of weapons to choose from and the sound of the weapons when fired is just really nice. The weapons go from machine guns, snipers, shotguns, rocketlaunchers etc. There are a couple of melee weapons like a shovel or a weird shaped knifes. Let's say that you are in a dilemma between which two weapons are better, the game has the stats of each gun on the bottom so it will be easy for you to see which one is easy. You can also modify your weapon by putting scopes, silencers etc. In the beginning of the game you create your character. There are 4 faces to choose from. After you do that you can choose what camo to wear, If you want armor on you, If you want sunglasses on your character etc. You can make your character look really cool. But some things have disadvantages like if you choose heavy armor you get 10% less speed. There is also the black market. The black market is just a place you buy things like weapons which are not on the regular list of weapons. You can also buy characters. For example the baron is a character and characters just have something cool that your character doesn't When you play matches you get promoted and you get points that you can use on weapons. Now the bad things of combat arms. When you buy weapons you don't keep them forever. There is a deadline. The deadline range from 1 to 30 days but if you want to do 30 days you will have to pay more points. I always do 1 day and after i log in the next day it say your "gun" has expired and is off your list. So you have to buy it again if you want to. Same goes with the camos, equipment etc they all have deadlines The game fails to keep hackers from getting in. The hackers hack the game and put cheats like unlimited life and it is just unfair and it just frustrating. The game tends to place you in places where your enemy is when you respawn but there is 3 second invulnerable thing. But sometimes the 3 second thing just doesn't work. Like you respawn you look to your left or right someone shoots and your dead in less than 3 seconds. Sometimes the game has some glitches like you run and you get stuck or you shoot and the bullet goes the wrong way. But those are really minor and rare times. So Combat Arms is a free fps which has its flaws but it is still really great.

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