Hell Let Loose
" Hardcore WWII action shooter with epic 50-player battles but steep learning curve "
Hell Let Loose Review
Hell Let Loose is a highly immersive World War II multiplayer shooter that emphasizes teamwork, strategy, and communication. Players appreciate the realistic gunplay, detailed graphics, and the intense, tactical gameplay where every decision matters. The game offers a unique experience where non-combat roles like engineers and support can significantly influence the outcome, making players feel part of a larger war machine. However, the steep learning curve and lack of tutorials make it challenging for newcomers, often requiring patience and guidance from experienced players.
Despite its strengths, the game suffers from technical issues such as crashes, server connectivity problems, and occasional bugs. Some players also criticize historical inaccuracies, especially regarding certain maps and factions. The community can be both a highlight and a frustration, with great teamwork in some lobbies but toxicity and poor communication in others. Overall, Hell Let Loose delivers a rewarding but demanding WWII experience best suited for players willing to invest time and effort.
Highlights
Players praise Hell Let Loose for its realistic and satisfying gunplay, impressive graphics, and immersive sound design. The tactical gameplay requiring communication and teamwork stands out, with roles like engineers, medics, and officers adding depth beyond simple shooting. The large-scale battles with 50-player teams create intense, memorable moments. Many enjoy the game's slow-paced, strategic combat that contrasts with fast-paced shooters, offering a fresh WWII experience. The community is often helpful, and the game's atmosphere captures the brutal reality of war effectively.
Criticisms
Common criticisms include the steep learning curve and poor onboarding for new players, with little in-game guidance or tutorials. Server issues like long queue times, crashes, and connectivity problems frustrate many. The game’s movement and animations are sometimes clunky, and some physics, like tank behavior, feel unrealistic. Historical inaccuracies, particularly on certain maps, have upset parts of the player base. Additionally, the grind for unlocking classes and weapons can feel tedious. Toxicity and lack of communication in some squads diminish the experience, especially for solo players.
Pros
- • Realistic and satisfying gunplay with impactful combat mechanics.
- • Strong emphasis on teamwork and communication enhances gameplay depth.
- • Large-scale battles with 50 players create immersive war scenarios.
- • Non-combat roles like engineers and medics feel meaningful and critical.
- • Impressive graphics and sound design contribute to immersion.
- • Atmosphere effectively conveys the brutal reality of WWII combat.
- • Tactical, slower-paced gameplay offers a fresh alternative to arcade shooters.
Cons
- • Steep learning curve with lack of tutorials frustrates new players.
- • Frequent server issues cause long queues and connection problems.
- • Clunky animations and occasional physics glitches reduce polish.
- • Historical inaccuracies on some maps upset parts of the community.
- • Grinding for unlocks can feel tedious and repetitive.
- • Toxicity and poor communication in some squads harm experience.
- • Matchmaking and server population issues limit accessibility.
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About This Game
Upcoming Roadmap
Please note that this roadmap highlights just some of the key additions coming to the game. Each update will also include a variety of new content, quality-of-life improvements, and bug fixes. As we progress, we’ll be diving deeper into each update to share more details with you.
About the Game
Join the chaos of war and be a part of the most iconic battles of WWII across the Eastern and Western Fronts as well as North Africa. Key battles include Carentan, Omaha Beach, Stalingrad, Kursk and more. Hell Let Loose drops you into the action, where you will have to fight across fields, bridges, forests, towns and more war-torn environments! Lumbering tanks will be dominating the battlefield and crucial supply chains fuelling the frontlines, you are essential to the colossal, combined arms warfare.
An Epic Theatre of War
Take to the battlefield in this squad-based, 50v50 multiplayer game, and choose one of our 14 roles available within the Command, Infantry, Recon and Armour unit types. Play as an Officer, Spotter, Medic, Tank Commander and more, to experience every aspect of World War II combat. Each role is equipped with different historical weapons, vehicles, and equipment that are intricately detailed, bringing the realism to the brutal and bloody warfare. Unit focussed gameplay is crucial and when done well can command the tide of battle.
Hardcore Gameplay
The combat takes place across huge, to-scale maps, recreated by utilising aerial and satellite imagery of real battle locations in stunning detail using Unreal Engine 4. These realistic battlefields are divided up into large capture sectors allowing emergent and constantly unique gameplay to evolve between the two forces of fifty players. Work as a team and make continual large scale, tactical decisions as to where to attack or defend.
Fight Together - Win Together
Hell Let Loose is not about kill to death ratios – teamwork is central to gameplay. Communication is essential. Players work together beneath the leadership of Officers and their Commander to take strategic targets on the battlefield and dominate the opposition. In Hell let loose, it’s always better to tackle things as a team. If you think you can handle the chaos of war, we’ll see you on the frontlines!
Unique Meta Game
Manage resources and supplies to call in support, bombing runs, new vehicles, strafing runs and to reinforce strong-points or flank enemies.
Key Features:
• Fight in epic 50 vs 50 multiplayer battles.
• Two distinct gamemodes - Offensive and Warfare
• Multiple maps with more added frequently - land at Omaha Beach, fight through Carentan and into the frozen forests of Foy before climbing Hill 400.
• Never fight the same battle twice - 99 capture point variations per map, means thousands of potential battles.
• Play and master one or many of 14 unique roles, including:
Officer, Medic, Machinegunner, Commander, Crewman, Sniper and more.
• Constantly updated with new maps, weapons, features and fixes.
• True to life ballistics and recoil patterns create satisfying, skillful gunplay.
• In-game proximity voip, command voip and unit voip.
• Brutal combat - friend and foe are dismembered by heavy weapons.
• Persistent player progression - show off your experience by unlocking new uniforms, loadouts and other customisation options as you level up each individual role, as well as your player.
• Take control of a huge array of WW2 vehicles - including the Tiger, Sherman, Stuart, Puma and more - with additional vehicles still to come
• Bombard and wipe the enemy from the field by taking control of heavy weapons - such as anti-tank guns and artillery.
• Build defenses on the battlefield to fortify your position.
• Use teamwork to smash through the enemy front line and push through to victory.
• Play the game as the Commander and lead your team to victory using different abilities as you orchestrate your forces via the tactical map.
9/10 – PCGamesN
“With a deep layer of big-picture strategy and maps that perfectly capture the devastation of war, there are few games in the genre that bring so much to the blood-soaked table.”
4/5 – NME
“The best World War II shooter for years”
86% – Gamestar
Join the ever expanding experience of Hell Let Loose - a hardcore World War Two first person shooter with epic battles of 100 players with infantry, tanks, artillery, a dynamically shifting front line and a unique resource based RTS-inspired meta-game.
