Turning Point: Fall of Liberty | 
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| From: Codemasters
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 5143
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter Action Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 117346
Model: 40180
UPC: 767649401802
EAN: 0767649401802
ASIN: B000R0RHPY
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Fight the Occupation in New York, Washington DC, and London. Witness the Third Reich s epic takeover of America and participate in intense, nonstop action against a backdrop of globally recognized landmarks | | • | Make a difference as an American Resistance hero and employ guerrilla tactics to outfl ank superior enemy forces. Take advantage of a unique grappling system featuring environmental kills, quick kills, and human shields. | | • | Participate in epic, cinematic gameplay from start to finish with this best-in-class First Person Shooter gameplay from SPARK. The soundtrack is from renowned video-game, TV and fi lm composer Michael Giacchino | | • | Play online in Deathmatch & Team Deathmatch modes and play as either Americans or Germans. 8 players and 4 maps - range of weapons from pistol to machine gun, sniper rifle and rocket launcher |
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Product Description
What if the United States never entered WWII until WWII came knocking at its front door? What if you were among the last of the resistance, struggling almost single-handedly to hold back the tide of US occupation by the Nazi war machine? In Turning Point's alternate reality, the untimely death of Winston Churchill in 1931 leads to the fall of Great Britain and Europe as they surrender to Hitler in 1940. From this pan-European power base, the German war machine re-equips itself to launch an unstoppable takeover of the United States. As a civilian caught in the middle of these new battlegrounds, fight afresh against the world's most notorious war machine on the streets of Manhattan, Washington DC, and beyond. Use guerrilla tactics and the surroundings to overcome superior post-war Axis weaponry and fight the Occupation. You are Dan Carson, a New York construction worker. You've watched as war enveloped the globe for over a decade and Europe fell to Nazi rule. Russia is now occupied, as are large areas of Asia. An uneasy alliance between the Germans and Japanese persists. The Nazis now look to the United States - the last major prize in their pursuit of world domination. New York is hit first as an overwhelming Nazi army invades. Zeppelins are the battleships, the blimps are the landing craft and the rooftops of downtown Manhattan are the beaches. Armed paratroopers descend on to the streets; the city is taken block by block. War becomes personal. Stunning soundtrack from renowned composer Michael Giacchino, famous for lost, Alias and Mission - Impossible III, among many others
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Good Idea, Bad Game April 27, 2008
Daniel White
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It looked like a good idea. I bought the game because it looked fun. It is NOT that fun. Graphics are good, but there is no freedom of movement, not a good story line, nor is it really exciting. For the price, I would go with Rainbow Six 2, much more fun.
The story, art, and music are terrific. Too bad the rest of the game is horrible. April 20, 2008
Pa4d (Jacksonville, FL USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
"What if the Nazis invaded the USA?" We see this kind of what-if scenario all the time in movies and read about it in books. But we've rarely seen a game with this kind of story. Then there's Turning Point. I couldn't tell you how excited I was to play this game. I was starting to get sick of all these WWII games and this seemed like a breath of fresh air. Then I actually played it.
Let me tell you this, the story is great. It's not much of a "What if the Nazis invaded America" scenario, but more of a "What if Winston Churchil wasn't around to give his influence?". For in the game, Churchill dies in a freak car accident in 1931, there by leaving Europe spineless when the National Army came to power. So they take over Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Russia. And since Germany had gained so much power over their conquest, Japan had no need to attack Pearl Harbor, so the USA had no real reason or motive to attack the Nazis. Then in '52, Germany finally attacks America, and totally takes over. Now it is up to you to push back the National Army and save your country!
The art direction is original and very well done. Some of the designs for the vehicals, weapons and Nazi soldiers are very creative. The art also really brings out the scope of the game. Most of the levels have you fighting at famous land marks (e.g. White House, Crystler Building, British Parliment Building, Big Ben) that have been destroyed by the Nazis. It's also a little scary and thought provoking to see hundreds of German fighter planes and zepplins flying over the NYC air space dropping partroopers and tanks to the streets below.
The music is fantastic. Real professional musicians obviously worked on this score. It's definetly some of the best music ever in a game.
In an artistic point of view, Turning Point is pure gold. But there's just one problem...
The game itself is way below average, unfished, and otherwise broken.
Let me break it down...
The Controls: Say good-bye to the likeness of the smoothe controls of other shooters like Halo, Call of Duty, or Bioshock, for the contols of Turning Point are so uncomfortable and unbalanced, you might just sue the developers. Your character moves like a rock with a gun. He's slow and stiff, and your turning/aiming speed are no different. Your character is able to do a grappling move that will eithter have you take out an enemy instantly or use him as a sheild, but since the contols are so impared, it's hard to tell which action you'll do. It's also practically impossible to shoot an enemy with any weapon. For instance, if your weilding an SMG, you'll be lucky enough to hit an enemy's torso from 40ft.
The Dialog: It's really sad for a game with a story this amazing, to have a script that could pretty much rival any B-movie. All of the characters are cliched, stereotypical, and easily forgetable with very predictable lines that you probably heard somewhere else before. The lines for the Nazis are a bit harsh. For the game literally demonizes them, even though most of the soldiers that fought for the National Army were regular Joes like you and me and were forced to fight as Nazis.
The AI: Naturally, no broken first person shooter is complete without some of the stupidest AI imaginable. It's kind of strange to see entire squads of highly trained "super" Nazis with advanced weapons and technology be totally wiped out by one former contruction worker with a tommy gun (AKA: You). Sometimes they'll run around in cirles, stand and do nothing, and/or they won't be able land a bullet on you even at point blank range. There are even parts where you can even use their thick-headedness to your advantage. At times you'll use the grapple move as a crutch, since it's much easier in the game to run up to an enemy and grapple kill him than to cope with the lousy shooting mechanics.
The Graphics: It doesn't matter what system you have this game on, nor does it matter what kind of TV you play on. Turning Point is one of the worst looking games of this generation. It's very rare for me to complain about something as pointless as graphics, especially since I grew up in the 2D age of games. But I find it a slight bit insulting that this game runs on the Unreal Engine, which is one of the best video game engines ever made, and yet it still manages to look very bland and pixlated. You'll find more polygons here than in a geometry book. Most of the textures are unfinished and/or poorly rendered. The animations and physics are just laughable. Basically, this game is an eye sore.
Turning Point is a perfect example of how developers shouldn't focus on art and art alone when making a game, especially for a first person shooter. There are some games with problems you can easily over look and still have fun with it (like Grand Theft Auto, Dead Rising, and Earth Defence Force), but Turning Point has too many issues for it to even be considered mediocer. The only reason why I'm giving this game three stars is becasue the story, art, and music are truly fantastic. Other than that, this game is an abysmal pile of excrement. If you want to play a good game with a good 'what-if' scenario, you're better off playing Freedom Fighters, World in Conflict, and/or Call of Duty 4. Turning Point is obviously broken, unfished, and most importantly, it isn't fun.
beyond broken.. April 15, 2008
F0X H0UND (Greenwood Lake, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You play as Carson Daily....erm...I mean just Carson. He is a construction worker from New York during an alternate-early-50's era where the Nazis have conquered Europe and WW2 is still raging on. One day you're on some steel gerders and BOOM! The Nazis begin attacking the United States!! You regroup with...the National Guard? And its up to you and your Resistance group to stop the Nazi invasion.
You'll travel the east coast of the United States to repel the attack. You'll start off in a decent replica of New York (and at one point will see the Chrysler Building ripped in half and laying in the street), Washington D.C. to save some fictional resistance general from execution and the constitution from being burned (which is an achievement), in the New York subway system, and a few other areas. The environments look, for the most part, pretty good.
The action is pretty intense and you can do these grapple moves where you run up and either use the Nazi as a human shield for a little bit or you beat the bajesus out of them in different ways. However, Turning Point is a very buggy and glitchy game, so the icon to indicate you can grapple the people sometimes does not show up until you are on the verge of death. You can run up and press the B button numerous times until you actually do grab the person. You get a bunch of "modified" WW2 weapons such as the "new" MP50, Gewher 45 (theres a new "Vampir" version that has thermal vision for oyu to snipe with), the M1 Garand, the version of the Thompson with the drum on the bottom of the barrel, the "combat shotgun", a multi-barreled Panzershrek, and the potato masher hand grenades.
Again, this game is really glitchy. For instance theres this stage you go into near the end of the game...its a bridge. You walk out and theres enemies on EVERY side of you..they can actually hit you through the wholes in the bridge but you can't shoot them. Sometimes you'll go to aim down your iron sights, only to find you can't shoot or get out of the aim mode for a couple of seconds to a minute. Sometimes your grenades won't explode or sometimes an enemy can hit you from a mile away with the shotgun..a lot of time the game will freeze up, the frame rates will drop, and finally the sound will cut out sometimes.
The AI is pretty bad too. Sometimes you can run right into view and sit there for about 3-5 minutes before they take cover and start shooting. Its pretty embarrassing for CodeMasters to have released such a terrible AI system upon the world.
The music is pretty good though. Its mainly an orchestrated score to help you feel heart wretched or pumped up. Additionally, some power sets like the Chrysler building being destroyed will push any New Yorker (like me) over the edge and want to finish the game.
The ending was somewhat believable. You board this Nazi Zeppelin that has a nuke on it, and you must disarm it before it blows up (I think) New York. Anyway, you kill everyone on the aircraft and reach the nuke. You take one look and notice you have 10 seconds left, and you attempt to stop it. The whole time your commander is telling you good job and what not but your character does not know how to stop a nuclear device. So, he sits down, shakes his head, and the nuke blows up in the sky. Your a casualty of war, but you stopped the missle from actually being launched at a target.
Overall, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty could have been so much better if CodeMasters would have taken more time to work the bugs out and make the gun power more balanced. On a scale of 1-10, I give it a "rent it first" 5.5.
 I Love This Game! April 6, 2008
E. Stiles (Small Town, MO USA)
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is one of my most favorite games yet. The graphics are awesome, the game is action packed and the war scenario and weapons are killer! My wife even loves playing this game! Everyone who loves war games and is considering buying Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, do so right now and you will not only thank XBOX you will thank yourself.
You Should Read the Book!!! April 6, 2008
Serious Reader (NYC)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This games is obviously based on Stephen R. Pastore's novel, Never on These Shores. Belive me, the book is great, much better than the game, but maybe they'll improve the vid to match the book. I hope so.
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