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hope its more like the one for xbox 360

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 39
Date: April 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I seriosly hope that this game will be more like GRAW2 for the xbox 360. if its more like the PC version of GRAW1 im gonna shoot myself. UBI is being stupid teaming up with those bunch of wanna be gamemakers GRIN. they totally screwed up the first game for the pc and i hope they wont screw this one up. But lets face it.. if ubisoft/grin does what it did to the first game, we can just say Ubisoft onley cares for the ppl with Xbox 360s and not the pc gamers anymore. messege to ubi: IF THE 360 VERSION WAS A SUCESS WHY NOT MAKE THE PC VERSION LIKE IT, i'd be glad to wait longer for that and not the PC version that comming out soon. GRAW2 better be good for the PC or Ubi Wont get another PENNY from me.

Finally a realistic shooter!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 32 / 32
Date: July 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm a soldier who returned from Iraq about a year and a half ago and ever since I've been looking for a good TACTICAL shooter to play for the PC. I've had many people tell me that counter strike is about as tactical as it gets. What the heck where they thinking? Counter strike has snipers moving right to left to avoid being shot and suffering no penalty for their movements. You'll see guys running around "bunny hopping" accurately throwing rounds down range its just crazy. In GRAW2 that junk is non-existent.

TACTICAL ASPECT
Graw2 uses a lot of excellent tactical features that I know a lot soldiers, police officers or just gun enthusiasts would like to see in a game. After playing Counter strike I can appreciate things like being able to lay prone in a grassy area and pick people off. You can crouch and even run while in a crouched position! Which is great for doing (MOUT) Military Operations in Urban Terrain or even bounding to assault an enemy position. This game also lets you utilize cover to its fullest advantage. You can peek right or left to take out enemies while not compromising your cover or concealment, whichever you may have. One of the more controversial aspects of this game is the fact that they're is no jumping what so ever. I personally like this features because it keeps players from utilizing the "bunny hopping" strategy. Nothing frustrates me more than being gunned down by a guy with an M4 Carbine thats jumping all over the place. Try that in real life and see how accurate you are :P But I will admit it can be annoying not being able to jump over some of the minor obstacles in the game. What's also awesome is once you take fire with a click of button you can hit the ground and immediately start moving left or right to pop up in a new location and steal the element of surprise from your would be ambusher. This only works on the Multiplayer though, theres no fooling NPC's :P. I've also used a lot of the scopes in the game such as the EOTech and ACOG and I can honestly say they're replication is spot on. While looking through the optics, everything looked exactly like it did in Real Life. I also like the added touch of when you run, you put your weapon away. They're is no running and shooting in this game. Which to me makes sense. Some would argue that running and shooting is great for laying down suppressive fire, but who's gonna keep they're head down when the rounds are landing no where near you. Nice touch GRIN.

GAMEPLAY
This game has been criticized for being to slow, and rightly so. It is a slow game and if your into the run and gun genre like unreal and counter strike it may not be for you. I do enjoy run and gun here and there but this was a nice change to have something a little more realistic. But those who like to form strategy's and be more methodical and calculating will truly appreciate this game. The graphics are pretty good but they are nothing to brag about. I've only played the game on Medium graphics because a glitch in the game will not let you upscale to high settings. But they are aware of this and working on a patch as we speak. The single player game is pretty interesting and difficult. You control a ghost recon team thats fighting a war against Mexican rebels invading American. Your first mission places you in Juarez attacking a militant camp, your mission is to neutralize the rebels and destroy their weapons cache. Too appease the more skilled players you can complete missions with various awards such as "marksman, man of steel" to name a few and they're are four total and they are difficult to accomplish.

MULTIPLAYER
Multiplayer is where the money is at. They have all your typical multiplayer matches such as death match, team death match, hamburger hill, king of the hill, tug of war, complete objective, Siege, and Recon vrs Assault. This makes for a whole lot of multiplayer player content. The recon vrs assault is the most intuitive of them all. The ghosts have the difficult mission of destroying the Rebel Anti-Air vehicles they're are 4 total. The opposing side playing the rebels has an easy mission: Kill the ghosts. The catch is that once a ghost dies he's dead until an Anti-Air vehicle is destroyed than all ghosts re spawn again. The Mexican rebels re spawn during the whole game. Up the ghost sleeves is high tech gadgetry and the ability to "tag" Mexican rebels. This enables all ghosts on your team to see the rebel on the mini map and effectively move to neutralize them. On the Rebels side is the "scrambler" who can de-tag fellow rebels. It's a difficult game of cat and mouse that will challenge both sides and ultimately the side with the best team work will win the day. Always remember when moving as a team in whole or even a squad, all it takes to wipe everyone out is a well placed M203 grenade and you can say goodbye. Another touch that may bother people is the game comes with the team speak server client. Yes, that means you'll be connecting to team speak if you want to talk to others on your team. When I installed the game it told me team speak was a 2 week trial which upon ending it sounded like I'd have to pay if I wanted to continue to talk to team members over team speak. I personally like this once again because after playing Counter Strike for a while, I've seldom ever heard anyone use the mic to coordinate attacks or talk strategy. Yes I'm sure some clans will do it, but I'm talking about just joining up to your standard public server. Most of the time Counter Strike microphone chat turns into a public insult fest with everyone trash talking and making fun of lesser players to feel more important, because they themselves don't amount to much in real life. I can appreciate not having to listen to dumb people hurl insults while yelling and completely ruining the game for me. Especially when in counter strike and GRAW2 being able to hear your opponents approaching is key to survival. It's not that big of a setback, my friends and I use Xfire to chat and I imagine clans and friends will find alternate forms of communication as well. The biggest problem with the multiplayer so far is the community isn't very large yet. Don't get me wrong I've NEVER had a problem finding a game but they're are a lot of empty servers on the list. Hopefully that will change in the following months.

SYNOPSIS
This is a great tactical shooter for the reasons stated above and I give it 5 stars. Some say BF 2142 is similar in the sense that you can lay in the prone and do other things. But that game is so unstable that you might as well be gambling on your entertainment for the evening, will the game crash or will you have several solid hours of gaming? who knows. But its not as tactical as GRAW2. Once again it is a slower paced shooter and for some I think they'll find its just not their cup of tea. I recommend downloading the demo at www.ghostrecon.com its only a single player demo that will have you playing the first mission described above. More importantly however, is if your interested, it will give you a chance to try it out and see if you like the game play and controls. Like I said its not everyones cup of tea :) thanks for your time! See you in game maybe! :P

Winnebago_Man

Good, but the first one was better.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is *much* shorter than the original, with many more bugs. I was very disappointed because I really loved the original and have played it several times. Even though I'm using an "approved" video card, I had several crashes that would knock me completely out of the game, which is very annoying when you're about to finish a level. In the last mission, I found that I couldn't even use the satellite (overhead) view since it would cause a crash. I've actually given up on completing the last level until Ubisoft releases another patch.
That said, the action is very good. The missions are similar to the original and in the same setting. If you enjoyed the first one, you like this one too.

best game I've played, period.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I play almost exclusively 1st person shooters on the PC. Currently I'm only 5 missions into the game and I'm absolutely hooked. The gameplay, story, maps and graphics are awesome... The last thing that sticks out in my mind is a level where a siren started going off. I found it a bit annoying so I shot the siren. It stopped. I know, a small detail but it's those things that make the game that much cooler. I've jumped into a few multiplayer games and found that to be just as cool.

All in all this is an awesome game. If you like realistic FPS (1 well placed shot and you're dead) this is a must have! Just make sure you have a decent PC to run it.

THIS GAME ROCKS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is addictive. the graphics are awesome.and at least there is a quick-save ability.weapons are great and squad command abilty is nice to have too.

It's not the Xbox 360 version. Not next generation graphics.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: August 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is completely different than the Xbox 360 version. I was very disappointed. This game lacks all the excitement that I saw in the xbox version's trailer. Nothing exciting in this game. So far it seems I've been running around on the Mexican mountains clearing spots waiting for something fun to happen.
The graphics not involving explosions are ok. The graphics in the explosions are very POOR!!!! This game does NOT have next generation graphics!!! The Xbox 360 version is next generation. This version has a completely different story line, a boring one in my opinion.
As a first person shooting game it's ok. Nothing horrible to complain about the gameplay just don't expect anything like the Xbox 360 version.
If you want NextGen wait for CRYSIS. It will be out winter 2007 for the pc. Go check out their trailer.

Getting Better with Old Skool Maps

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If your an old skool GR (by RSE) player and still play old skool GR, you owe to yourself to stop by www.ghostrecon.net and see the Castle Day Map for GRAW by Biro.
Also worth checking are the new weapons by SnowFella and Brettzie.
The modding continues day by day with Cangaroo.TNT's Combat Search and Rescue, Total Random Respawns by Lightspeed, and Coop missions by Rpghard.
So,while your waiting for your Xbox360 to cool down from overheating and finally give you a green-cicle light, stop by www.ghostrecon.net and say hi to the fellas. Maybe join a clan.

Great game, almost perfect, but too short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This review is based on Single Player only, I don't play MP or online.
I played GRAW1 and finally got the hang of it so I didn't die every 5 seconds (I'm an older player, so don't have the teen reflexes required), so I really enjoyed GRAW2 even more, mainly because it gives you 3 manual saves. GRAW1 had none, making it much more difficult. The GRAW2 graphics were not quite as good as GRAW1 either, and it was much too short, but overall I'd say it's one of the best and most satisfying FPS/war games I've played recently. I would have given it 5 stars had it been longer.
There are some picky complaints I had, like my team constantly badgering me when I went out alone (they tended to get in the line of fire too easily), and those generals shouting at you when they want something, but they're minor annoyances.
Also in GRAW2, Ubisoft, in their magnificent charity, lets us skip the opening ads by just clicking the mouse button, instead of having to delete movies or hack files.

Great game, but too short and buggy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a single player only review. I have yet to play the multiplayer part of this game.

The gameplay is extremely fun, and slightly more forgiving than early ghost recon games. I've only played through on normal difficulty, so I would expect the harder difficulty to get rid of that forgiving factor (as it should). The graphics are what I would expect, and the controls are the same as your typical FPS. The way that you control your fireteam is extremely useful. It takes a little getting used to (using the middle mouse button), but after a little time it works like a charm.

My complaints.
1) Too short. This is the first time I've ever made that complaint about a game. I finished this game in a week of only playing a couple of hours after work each day. 10-15 hours of gameplay if you take it slow. That's not enough for me. However, multiplayer may make up for this.
2) Buggy. The game crashed to desktop 3 or 4 times during my first time through. Teammates get stuck sometimes. Move commands don't seem to get them unstuck, but giving the follow command gets them moving again. You can then order them to a specific location. Giving the follow command to all team members when you have a tank, airstrike, and/or artillery at your disposal will lead to you being targetted by them. I got myself blown up by doing that. That's poor programming.
3) Extremely long load times. My PC isn't the cream of the crop, but it's definitely above average. 2GB of ram, 64 bit Athlon 3600, etc., etc. and the load times were probably close to 60 seconds per level. I'm just not used to that.

Despite the game's shortcomings, it is still an extremely fun game to play. Hopefully later patches fix the bugs.

UPDATE 11-20-07

I've played some multiplayer now. The multiplayer is very good. I'm not a huge fan of the deathmatch and team deathmatch modes, but that's just me. I'm not good enough yet to not get destroyed immediately. I enjoy the cooperative modes and the rebel/ghost modes the most. There are a multitude of maps available online, and you'll find that you have to download quite a few if you want to play online.

Finding a server isn't always easy either.

I would still leave my overall rating the same. The MP is good, but not good enough to account for the overly short SP campaign.

What am I playing now? I'm running back through Half Life 2 on the hardest difficulty. HL2 is still one of the best SP experiences out there.

Advanced SP just keeps getting worse and worse...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I originally had high hopes for GRAW after seeing what they had initially promised - Next generation gaming or something? I didn't know the next generation looked so poor. I bought the game for 50 bucks and quite frankly, I would have rather paid 20.

Afterwards, having hearing about GRAW 2 I decided to give GRIN one more chance. Except this time I waited for the price to drop to 40 incase it was the same fiasco. Much to my dismay, I was right.

Now I'm kind of a picky gamer admittedly since I only buy games with brands and makers that I trust or have a million people recommend to me. If your review of Rainbow Six Vegas was about a 4.5 out of 5, then we might be viewing through the same scope.

Single Player
If you're looking for some solid SP before you get to MP, it's just horrible. Right off the bat with Mission 1, I had bad guys really, I kid you not, who were right behind me with no cover or concealment blocking their view, who didn't see or hear me shooting just a second ago. This doesn't happen all the time I grant you but still it's kind of annoying to see this. -This is with the latest 1.04 patch at the time of this writing- Better yet though, my team which was following me, also failed to notice the dudes too. So there was just a moment of "is he on my team?" "is he some kind of scripted event?" But no, it was just poor AI and you'll be seeing this a lot in the SP game.

The weapons are pretty cool though. I would say the game survives in SP off of the weapons.

MultiPlayer
MP is pretty decent if you can find a good server. Depends on your style I guess but the MP part is pretty enjoyable around the boards if you can get a decent connection.

Conclusion:
If you like MP, perhaps pick this up now that the price has dropped. But if you're looking for some solid SP as well (I mean SP is included in the money that you pay for this game so if you want your money's worth, you should have a decent SP experience as well), I would wait til the game hits the bargain bin or wait for something else to show up.

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