If you're an Xbox Live subscriber, then you are in for a real treat.  In fact, I would go as far as to say that if you're into multiplayer shooters than you absolutely have to buy this game.  Unlike most death-match focused first person shooters, RCW's multiplayer games are all team-based.  Of course team-based deathmatch is included, but the objective-based games provide more fun than you can get from mindless frag-fests.  Team-based cooperation is further encouraged by providing players with the choice of playing as one of four different character classes, soldier, engineer, medic, and lieutenant.  Soldiers are your standard infantry that have the advantage of being able to wield heavy weapons such as the panzerfaust.  Engineers carry dynamite which they can use to destroy objectives and obstacles.  They also have the ability to disarm dynamite placed by enemy engineers.  Medics can distribute health packs to other players, plus they can revive fallen teammates and save them a return to the nearest spawn location.  Finally lieutenants distribute ammo packs to teammates and have the ability to call in occasional artillery and air strikes.

The maps are well-designed and provide for some great gameplay, but to tell the truth the Normandy map is such a blast to play that it will be hard for you to tear yourself away from it long enough to spend time playing the other maps.  The Normandy map is a team-based objective map in which the Allies begin on the beach at the water's edge and the Axis start within a costal defense fortress built into the side of a cliff facing the beach.  In between the two sides is a killing field of barbed wire and anti-tank obstacles that the Allies will need to cross if they want to have any chance of winning the game.  The Allies will need to brave sniper and machine gun fire to get Engineers close enough to the fortress to blow a hole in the wall and let their comrades into the fortress itself. After that it is fast-paced room to room fighting within the walls of the fortress as the Allies attempt to capture the secret documents that the Axis have stored there.  The multiplayer action is such a blast in RCW that it more than makes up for the cost of the game and an Xbox Live subscription.

In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated: 92%.  A pretty good first-person shooter made great by some stellar multiplayer action.

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