A review of Joint Operations Escalation over in ign.

Although hit detection has been spread to body zones, making it so that a sniper can't shoot your foot and kill you, motion capture isn't as satisfying as ragdoll, especially after Painkiller, Half-Life 2, and CS: Source. You can blow people into the air with explosions, but there isn't the same sense of impact with bullets. In large-scale multiplayer gaming, this kind of thing probably has to suffice in order to keep the system from buckling, but the performance tradeoff leads to infantry combat that's a little underwhelming. All in all, Joint Ops and the Escalation expansion pack to a good job of feeding the BF1942 jones, but I still miss being able to drive and control a vehicle weapon at the same time. This wouldn't be realistic, but it is fun, and perhaps some more allowances need to be made in this regard for Escalation to truly capture the fun factor. The dirt bike is definitely a great example.

Score is 8.3/10. Read more here