WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes Reviews

Played original release can't complain about the changes support historical content.

A promising indie game that forgot what it was. When the devs and the playerbase may tell you the strategic layer was removed, they may fail to mention how it was removed as cleanly as a surgery without anesthesia. In short, they only removed the bigger systems of the strategic layer, but didn't touch the smaller ones that worked with them. While removing the momentum and district systems in the name of historical accuracy, they forgot that the game's harder aspects such as characters needing to heal between missions, finding and repairing new weapons, and similar stuff worked with your ability to pick the missions you wish to manage your ressources. The fixed linear story removed all that : you're gonna fight a lot with wounded characters, and the early game is full of fighting. Worse, the story may skip days but still only one has passed for your soldiers, and good luck finding interesting new weapons with the "filler" random missions. In other aspects, Warsaw Rising : Cities of Heroes is Warsaw from Wish; everywhere the original was good at, it either botched it or didn't improve on anything, or the addition is minor. New graphics are a downgrade : new characters stick out like sore thumbs compared to the older ones, just by style or because "animations" are blurry. The original game had an animated intro cutscene that set the mood, the new story cutscenes are barely a little animated. Soundtrack seems even less varied than the old one, without being close to as good or as unique. The History part is great in idea but the execution was at the price of the game. Documents and sites laying around the map is great; not messily replacing how the game played. Ambiance has been undermined by the new more generic soundtrack, the linear story and the graphical additions; there is even a whiplash between the colourful comic-esque icons to represent you and historical sites, and the somber-looking maps and items. Gameplay is the same as before, but parts of it make no sense any longer. By the way, if the story says the Home Armr seized supplies and munitions, you get actually nothing. The final disappointment ultimately comes with gameplay : in 2021, a great overhaul and major improvements were promised for Warsaw Homecoming. Instead, the game lost its core in exchange of badly-implemented minor additions.