Let's get straight to the point, War Rock is not worth downloading, or even worth thinking about downloading. War Rock is a horrible game mainly because of its unbalanced, boring gameplay; frequent crashes; annoying sound effects; and other various flaws. It does has its positives about it but its negatives easily outweigh them and in the end, the game is simply not fun.

When you first download and start up the game, you feel like it's going nice so far as there is an auto-patcher that loads up. This will make it easy for you as you will not have to download anything manually for the game since they will be updated automatically at startup. After the game loads, you are greeted with an easy-to-use interface. One of the buttons on the interface you will notice is the Controls button which you would think that it would let you change the game's controls, but that is not the case. You can only view what the controls are and it is impossible to change them. Another option you have is called "Options" where you would go to apply graphical and audio changes, but there is no "Apply" button or anything similar to it, so you can't really tell if you actually applied changes unless you notice anything different in the game. At the very top of the small list of options, you will see "Connect" which you use to connect to the game with the account you create on the game's website.

Once connected, the interface is pretty easy-to-use. You select which server to play on, whether or not you want to play in Close Quarters Combat, Urban Ops, or Battle Group, and then select a game to play in. While selecting a server and a game to play in, you can also change your character's inventory by buying new gear and weapons. Although the interface is easy-to-use, it does have a pretty annoying sound effect whenever you hover over a button with the mouse that you're going to want to learn to tune out. Overall War Rock does have a nice interface with the exception of making it impossible to change the controls and making you feel unsure whether or not you made graphical changes.

You might be thinking now "what is the difference between Close Quarters Combat, Urban Ops, and Battle Group?" This is explained when you are choosing which one to go on at the start of the game. Close Quarters Combat is meant for more close combat on smaller maps. It supports up to 16 players and has about 8 maps available for it. Urban Ops is played on medium-sized maps, supports up to 24 players and has about 11 maps available for it. Finally, Battle Group contains all the large maps with vehicle support. It supports up to 32 players and has about 9 maps for it. No matter which mode you choose, you will usually be in a small room with unexciting battles.

The character inventory is a pretty neat idea. When you go on it, you will see 5 classes: Engineer, Medic, Sniper, Assault, and Heavy Trooper. You can purchase weapons for each of these classes with some weapons being available for only a specific class. Some of the weapons also have a Members Only stamp on it and this is where one of the biggest flaws come into play. The Members Only weapons require you to pay a subscription fee in order to be able to use them and they are often the better weapons. Along with getting the better weapons, people who pay a subscription fee for this game also gets more of the in-game currency, making it easier for them to purchase new weapons. This makes the game unbalanced as the game favors players who pay money as opposed to favoring the players who develop skill, so if you're one of the players who do not wish to spend money on this game, you'll be dealt with the challenge of the people who are.

Being able to actually play the game make take a few tries for some players. Many gamers experience frequent crashes with this game, and also have problems with PunkBuster auto-updating. If you think you can get around PunkBuster and just play offline, you're wrong as there is no single player mode to the game and every server requires PunkBuster. Once you are able to play the game though, you will soon realize that the game isn't exciting at all. The gameplay is very generic, and has quite a lot of hackers. The weapons don't have any zoom either except for a select few. The gameplay does have some positives about it like the ability to roll and easy-to-use vehicles. The bikes are pretty fun to ride around and can be used to quickly move around the map. Some vehicles even allow support for multiple players so you can use teamwork on them by having one person drive the vehicle and another use the machine gun. However, if you know anything about physics, you will notice many problems with the vehicles physics. According to this game, crashing a dirt bike into a jet airplane is enough to cause the jet to move back some which makes it seem like the developers of this game didn't spend any time on the physics of the vehicles.

The game does have some community features which is nice. Probably the most notable community feature is its clan system. The game's website has a page dedicated to just the clan system with news on upcoming tournaments and matches. Along with information on tournaments or matches, there is a ranking system for the clans which makes the game feel more competitive. There is also an achievement system for clans where they can earn achievements by winning a season, having a great winning streak, having a horrible losing streak, and more. Overall, the game does pretty well with it's clan system and makes the game a bit more competitive.

Probably the worst part about this game is its lag and number of hackers. Even though the game does have PunkBuster, it seems to be ineffective as you will still encounter some hackers in the game. If you don't encounter any hackers, you will still suffer the game's lag problem. Since the game runs on a Peer-to-Peer system, you will have lag issues in any match with a lot of players unless you're using an incredible connection.

On the technical side, this game does have tolerable graphics. While they are no where close to being on the same level as many other games, you can still play fine with them and the nice part is, the game should run on most computers. The sound effects on the other hand, get annoying pretty quickly. It's probably best to simply mute the game completely and run your own music in the background.

War Rock isn't a game for everyone. Actually, it's probably not a game for anyone because of its many problems. Unless you don't mind unbalanced, generic gameplay, lag, hackers, and having to pay real money to have a shot at some of the top players, you will most likely not enjoy War Rock. You'll be better off playing just about any other free game online.