Having picked this up when it first came out playing it and watching it get better year after in just about every aspect has been a blast.
First thing I'd like to go over here is just how customisable the game is when it comes to difficulty, you can make the gameplay loop as easy or hard as you'd like. From player damage and damage feedback, AI accuracy, Toggleable UI elements, Lowering or Disabling suppression effects, to how many AI units will be on the field along side and against you, even down to how basic the AI will behave. Now the AI is not perfect but it has been iterated upon with the majority of updates and will likely continue to be iterated upon until it's in a good position.
Base game content and gameplay. With the base game you get 7 operations/battles split across the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Pacific. Each operation consists of a number of engagements that you will play though, the main loop of which will follow an attack/defend formula done in phases, each phase dictating the kind of troops and vehicles you will have available to you and this generally changes with each new phase of the battle you will also get an alert when the battle has entered it's final phase before the next engagement.
Each theatre offers up a good variety of difficulty and battle types with some being full combined arms others being more infantry focused and others being tank focused.
Controls and Graphics, the game has fully rebindable controls and the expected choices when it comes to graphic options and toggles DOF, Motion Blur, etc.
Another thing I personally like about the game is how the uniforms, webbing and small arms are correct to the Divisions that have been depicted, for example the Deutsches Afrikakorps will have canvas webbing as opposed to the leather or the U.S army will eventually switch out they're M41 pattern uniform to the M43. Or how troops from the British home islands will be armed with NO.4 mk1 lee-Enfield rifles but troops from the Commonwealth will generally be using NO.1 MKIII* rifles instead.
Ultimately if you're looking for a decent ww2 shooter that can take you from well known battles like Anzio to barely covered battles like Kos this is it, and the price of admission is more than reasonable.
