Combat Arms

Combat Arms is fun. Simple as that. If you can overlook the annoying players, then anyone looking for a competitive online shooter should look no further. This is free to play FPS at its best.

I really enjoy the action and gameplay that Combat Arms has to offer. And with a free admission price, it’s kind of difficult to not at least try it out for a few matches. At the very least, you will respect the ability of the game to be fun, fast paced, and highly addictive.

It's got decent game play and once the kills start rolling in you won't want to stop playing. There are just some things you can't pass up and this is one of them.

There may be plenty of better options for anyone looking for an online shooter, but for the price Combat Arms is among the best around. It's fast, fun, brutal and addicting - what more could you ask for from a free FPS.

It's a good place for casual shooter fans who don't feel like dropping $20 to get the crap kicked out of them in CS. [Nov 2008, p.66]

The gameplay, meanwhile, is largely basic and undeniably old-school, but it can be fun, fast, furious and reasonably deep if you find a map and mode you like, and are lucky enough to get a team that works together.

Combat Arms is a very fun game, I have tried many free fps games and i can strongly say not another one compares to the thrill of "CA" I have now played for almost 4 years and I feel the company does a great jobn to make sure that anybody can play the game with a graphics settings capable for the cheapest or oldest computers and the game does look very nice for a free fps on max graphics, no it doesnt stand up to say battlefeild for for graphics but a game is made to have fun with and I believe Nexon does a better job at making this game fun then any other company has done at a paid or free fps!

I've been playing this game for almost 6 years, now. Nexon has made some miraculously stupid decisions regarding the game and how it works throughout its existence, but they've been able to make it quite good in recent time. With the introduction of the Combat Arms Reboot, this game has effectively moved away from the pay-to-win platform that it once was, to another platform that offers a lot more balance between paying players and free players. Weapons that used to only be obtainable through paid methods may now be purchased using in-game credits, but with certain restrictions that many may easily find negligible. Hackers used to be a much bigger issue than they are today. Of course, you'll undoubtedly see them every now and then. With Nexon's introduction of Black Cipher anti-cheat, hacking was reduced massively. AhnLab's Hackshield Pro (formerly the only anti cheat system in the game) is a total joke. The game's not perfect, but it's been fun enough to keep me coming back all this time. Plus, it really does have the largest arsenal for any first person shooter to date, and that continues to expand roughly every month. Should you play it? It takes some getting used to. If you're into Counter Strike, you probably won't like it. If you're into other free to play FPS's, like Crossfire, or Alliance of Valiant Arms, you'd probably be best off trying this one out. Ranks take time to achieve, and consistent in-game quitting will slow your progress. Patience is key with the learning curve in Combat Arms. Maybe join a clan; make a few friends.

The game, overall, is very good for how old it is. The shop has a lot to choose from when it comes to guns and gear items. There are also a variety of maps and modes to choose from, so you will have a lot of fun. The only downsides are the community, lackluster lag, and players who **** the "NX" or "Pay to win" shop.

First i have to say, that i was a regular player of Combat Arms Europe straight up from the closed beta, so basically i was a witness of the whole "devolution" of this game. In the beginning CA was a super fun online shooter, community was kind of ok, no cheaters, good amount of guns and solid gameplay. After half a year or so, things started to go south. When the first specialist characters were introduced, i knew where all this is going to lead. The game was still enjoyable, for the next, like two years, but Nexon started to make CA into an eventual abomination, that simply swallows your money, and leaves you in a frustrating pit of hackers and whiners, killing the fun entirely. I tried to return to CA a few times, but i couldn't stay longer than a few rounds each time, so i just moved on. There are quite a lot of things wrong with this game, the greatest of them all is a company called Nexon. Their management and maintenance of the game is simply ridiculous, interaction with, or response to their player community stands next to zero. They think regular updates are all, that people need. Every month there is a major patch, usually with a few new guns and a new map. What for? The amount of guns one can choose in the shop was already overwhelming years ago, by now many guns have the exact same stats, some of them are completely useless. One can easily get lost in the shop, especially newcomers. There are also way too many maps available, despite their number, people tend to play only on a few maps for some reason. Despite the fact, that CA was clearly transfroming into a pay to win game, i was holding on. Gameplay was kind of solid, ingame lagg was becoming a more serious problem, but CA was still playable. I never bought anything with nexon cash (NX), used only the ingame currency (GP) for all my gear. Over time, you can get pretty good with GP weapons, there is no need to buy all the fancy guns. Wich are truely overpowered sometimes. And here comes the fact, that player community is absolutely awful in CA. If you manage to dominate players, who spent a lot of cash for top equipment, while your having kind of basic weapons(GP), they will go crazy. People tend to call you hacker, cheater, want to kick you from the room. For playing better then them. IF you'r able to play, because the sheer amount of hackers present in the game is simply beyond belief. The voting system is more than obselete, it's just a broken idea. Elite moderators are kicking almost every player, who manage to keep a better score then they do, players constantly accusing each other back and forth, hacker this, cheater that, the whole process is just disgusting. Im trying to understand what Nexon was or is thinking, while following their current path of development. The very core of the game is more than good. The gameplay mechanics, the guns, the gunplay is pretty decent for a F2P shooter, maps are also enjoyable. But this insane idea of making the game an overall theft of the players money is poisoning the whole thing. A good amount of NX items are waaay too powerful, of course people want to have the upper hand, when buying them. After they bought a whole set of premium stuff, it's time to play. And what do you know? Even with the top gear you will be constantly harrased by cheaters, people will call you NX noob, for buying real cash items, servers lag for unknown reasons, and the list goes on and on. All this leads to a very frustrating atmosphere, players are angry with the hackers, with each other, and with Nexon of course. So in conclusion, a very satisfying and fun shooter has turned into an unspeakably frustrating, senseless battle against hackers, and into a desperate search of a decent round with tolarable players. The game itself is practically dead, a mear shadow of its former self. I wonder how long will CA actually last, i hope people start to realize soon enough, right now it's all about their money, without giving anything enjoyable in return. A broken product, stay far away from it.

The only reason anyone plays this is because it's free. My friend says Combat Arms used to be a good game, but like all Nexon Games, they ruin them by adding all these random stuff like maps. They epicly fail on recoil when your gun just starts shaking around.