Maroon Berets: 2030 Reviews

It is just an indie game by solo dev (as I heard). Bought & played it to support dev. Do not anticipate something like CoD or Battlefield for sure. The worst thing about game is absence of any markers or guides about the tasks, mostly they buggy and unclear, Surely needed to be worked on.

Needs some work, especially with aiming and the translation but ambitious and well-made for a solo project. Ignore the review-bombing haters.

2020 Karabakh war showed very revolutionary use of military tactics, much greater importance given by Turks in use of precise drones in combination with special forces. Definitely wanted to try this game when I saw it pop up. This game checks a lot of the boxes, beautiful landscape of Turkish highlands, Mount Agri, atmospheric missions, many weapons to chose from ... The graphics speaks for itself if you watch a Youtube playthrough. The story line is very compelling. Although the game is not based on real people, the main character's backstory is very realistic not some cheesy superhero nonsense. The antagonists are also very realistic for anyone familiar with ASALA/Dashnak terrorist ideology and atrocities in the past, such as murder of Turkish diplomats around the globe, massacres like in Khojaly. It is like the best combination of hl2 and Wolfenstein. definitely would recommend.

From a technical perspective, it's trash. From the graphics to the controls and gameplay. Story-wise, it's worse than trash. Imagine a gutter-tier game where you are a Nazi and you are exterminating Jews in Poland and Ukraine during WW2. Or playing as Russians invading and massacring Ukrainians in 2022. Or better yet, azeris invading and destroying Armenian villages and murdering civilians, as is actually happening these past few years. This game is a representation of azeri/turkish ultra-nationalism and their obsession with the glorification of real violence (not fake video game violence). It perpetuates a (awful) core aspect of their modern culture which revolves around Armenians being their boogeyman and the reason for anything bad happening in their country. Their society actually glorifies straight-up psychotic murderers (see Ramil Safarov). This game is just another piece to the fk puzzle that is the evil side of human psyche.

Seems to be made from asset packs with no original work outside of some flags. The game hardly runs, there are no quest markers, the guns feel and sound terrible, and the english translation is laughably bad. refunded.