When you die (and you'll die a lot), you'll just wait for the next respawn (usually spaced 15 seconds apart) and jump back in the action.

It's easy to die in this game, and it often feels like one shot can put you down, whereas in most multiplayer shooters you have a decent-sized health bar that lets you absorb a few hits before you die, or they feature health packs that instantly restore you to full health. What makes Day of Defeat: Source different from, say, Call of Duty 2 is the game's brutally fast-paced nature. Get ready to seize and blow up enemy equipment in the new detonation mode. The rest is fairly basic: snipers get a sniper rifle, antitank carry a bazooka, the machine gunner carries a light machine gun, and so on. Assault carries a submachine gun, which fires quickly, but has terrible accuracy. Riflemen get a rifle, which is powerful and accurate but slow-firing. Each side has a number of classes, and each class is armed with a specific weapon. In Day of Defeat: Source, two teams play as the Americans and the Germans as they battle among the towns and villages of Western Europe during World War II. We got a sneak peak at the action firsthand to see what it's all about.īased on the same engine that powers Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike Source, Day of Defeat: Source is the updated version of Day of Defeat, one of the most popular modifications for the original Half-Life. Day of Defeat: Source is coming up on its first birthday later this summer, and to mark the milestone for its popular multiplayer first-person shooter set in World War II, Valve is prepared to release a new map pack that introduces new missions and a new detonation mode.

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