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For the price it isn't too bad. I cannot deny that they are good starter guns because of the price, functionality and quick change spring system, however ARES is just what remains of the old shitty STAR company.

I've owned and gamed with three different G36's: CA, JG and ARES. In my honest opinion, The only benefit Ares had externally was the dual optic. I didn't like the external finish, plastic looked really cheap. It also came non functioning out of the box, I had to re-solder the wiring to the poorly made connectors before it would work. The quick change spring system also severely compromises the integrity of the rear of the gearbox, however this won't be a problem as long as you don't heavily upgrade the gun (noob friendly). It also seems to have a problem where the
space inside the handguard isn't quite big enough for a standard battery, where the positioning of the battery causes the fairly loose free floating barrel to move around depending on the position of the battery and how you hold the handguard, resulting in loss in accuracy. I've never had this problem with any other G36.

On the plus side, accuracy was decent when the barrel wasn't wobbling, it comes with the hard to get dual optic, comes with two stocks so you can rear wire it and fix the accuracy issues, and it performs decently.