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Fabulous Addition to Clancy Arsenal

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: March 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm writing this review only having played the demo. But having played teh first one and this one, there's a very clear difference. The visuals are outstanding, especially the explosions. What GRAW seems to do best is tie you into the intensity of the battle. W/ the wicked loud grenade explosions and gunfire ringing in your ears. When played on an HD TV and surround sound, this game will blow you away. What really gives it its value is the 18 fully fleshed out multiplayer maps it ships w/ and the different game modes. you can even play on a team with 15 other players against a huge force of rebels. Worth the money!

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Good but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love the ghost reacon series more than any other game, but even though this game is worth buying because you will have fun. I am just disappointed because the only improvement over advanced warfighter was a little better graphs and little better AI.
NEGATIVES:
*The game will not allow you to react fast to situatios, the gun moves to slow.
*No full co-op campaign which makes this game be another of the bunch and lose one star.
*The same bugs from last version (lose two star).

POSITIVES:
*Continuation from last game.
*Fun to play.

I am still waiting to see fi there will be a game better than Rainbow Six Vegas which in my opinion has been the best game ever created so far.

Decent but too short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 16
Date: March 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

GRAPHICS: 5

Pluses: Major upgrade from GRAW1, very impressive. Incredible textures, physics, detailing, lighting, shadowing... and I don't have a HDTV so god knows what this looks like with that, probably astounding.
Minuses: Fair implementation of graphics... you accidentally notice a lot of it when it should have been pushed into the foreground. For instance the whole "wind physics" they bragged about in the demos, you barely notice since they didn't bother to use it except during cut-scenes. It would have been nice to have shifting winds, which probably wouldn't be all that hard to code into the game.

LEVEL DESIGN: 2

Pluses: Some interesting levels like a night graveyard one, where there's votive candles on graves, "tire steps", and other nice touches that made it look exactly like Mexico, and stealthing around in this atmosphere seems eerilly realistic.
Minuses: Absurdly easy level play, nothing like GRAW1. Enemy AI is improved but still dumb, ghost allie AI is much better, but now you almost don't have to fight... far too much support on some levels. I just want the UAV and lot's of targets, not 3 pockets of stationary enemies a tank can eliminate. Too many helicopter gunship missions... 4 I believe... and those are childishly easy. I'd say there are about 3 "challenging" sections of the 12 (??!!) total missions; most are simply "sneak around and headshot", nothing involving tactics. Finally the night "ghost" missions with nightvision goggles (like 2 points in the game) if you use a suppressed weapon (silencer) on an enemy, all neighboring enemies come running at you(???) Why bother dedicating so much of the game to this crap (one button for vision, 5 diff silencer weapons) if the AI behaves like it's daytime and using normal weapons? Makes zero sense. Some bad programming involved.

OVERALL GAMEPLAY: 4

Still a great title, for a FPS it's the best on the 360. Multiplayer has tons of options including many co-op ones that are crazy.... Helicopter elimination where you have a team working together as they are swarmed by choppahs. Fun and crazy. I just wish there were more intelligent strategic levels to match the quality of the graphics, texture mapping, and physics. Still highly recommended despite my high expectations of the game.

Impressive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics and gameplay are really impressive for my first Ghost Recon game. The only downside to this game is that there are way too many controls to remember and at times it can be confusing and frustrating when trying to control your squad. The shooting needs to be improved slightly but it doesn't take the fun away from the game.

One More Exellent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I believe that the people who say that this game has not improved over GRAW are being to hard. The graphics are better, the gameplay is better, and the stratagy is better. GRAW 2 is a blast to play alll around.

Solid Game But has Issues.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

While GRAW2 is definately an improvement over part 1, there are are issues Id wouldve liked see done better. The left to right gun movement while in aim LT mode is sluggish, Ive preferred a option to change L/R gun speed in options menu. And there are at times to many orders and commands to give in the middle of gun fights. Sometimes it takes away the fun factor of playing a game.But I have to say this still is a great game , The weather effects look quite nice on my LCD TV 1080i . There's one desert type MAP where there dust devils are swirling around in the distance which looks quite nice , some of the best ive seen on a console system. Also I like how sometimes if I die and reload a checkpoint ..the weather has comepletly changed from sunny to dense fog type conditions.And if you go very slow in a map you'll see it go from sunny to dark night, which adds to the koolness factor. The A.I. isnt very agressive I dont remember ever being flanked one time. So dont expect VEGAS SIX type enemies. I do feel that many elements of the graphics are nicely done ,especially the weather. But I will say if you dont have HDTV you might get a different impression. If your a fan of GRAW1 you should be happy with this game. But the A.I. does seem less intelligent than games like Rainbow Six Vegas, or GEARSofWAR.But I still had funplaying it. After playing the spectacular GEARSofWAR and R/S-VEGAS story campaigns a bazillion times its nice to have something fresh to run through. AT least rent it and beat it in 2-4 days.Peace.

A disgrace to the Clancy games

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: March 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible. The controls are counterintuitive and inconsistent. the motion (specifically of aiming) is very sluggish and frustrating. Also, the campaign has way too much talking and extra little things going on. If you want a sweet Clancy combat game, go for Rainbow Six Vegas. It is fifty times better.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love the Ghost Recon series, and just about every Tom Clancy game. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 (GRAW 2) is a great war game. The graphics are excellent, the sound is top-notch, and the gameplay is some of the best around. If you're a fan of war games, this is the one to get.

Graphics:

The graphics in the game are great. The environment looks spectacular, especially when the sun is shining on water. Individual leaves on trees cast shadows onto your character, which is really cool to see. The explosions are the best of any video game around, and look very realistic. The character faces could be a bit more detailed themselves, but I'm honestly not looking at the faces of my teammates when I'm shooting an opponent. It's not that they're bad, they could just be a little better. When it's raining outside and a bullet goes by you, you can see the trail of the bullet through the rain. During points of this game, you'll just stand there looking around because it's such a great looking game.

Graphics Score- 4.5

Audio:

The audio is just as great as the graphics. From the rustle of your clothing and equipment when you're running, to the sounds of explosions, to the reloading and shots of your guns, the sound is phenomenal. The only knock I have on the audio of this game is that the voice-acting is not very good. Sometimes, it's way over the top. Sometimes it's very good, it's a mixed bag.

Audio Score- 4.5

Gameplay:

This is where GRAW 2 shines the most. The gameplay in this game is fantastic, online and offline. Some people say that the gameplay is too slow, I disagree. I think the speed of it is perfect. You shouldn't be able to roll on your stomach in under a second, you've got 30-50 pounds of equipment strapped on your body. The roll speed is perfect to me. Also, it takes a little time to reload a gun, you shouldn't be able to reload in under a second. You have to release the old clip, reach for the new ammo, and finally load the new clip into the gun. Why are people complaining that it taked too long to reload? This is a realistic game, we're not playing Halo.

Offline gameplay is great, but I especially love the online play. There are MANY online modes available, including: Co-Op Campaign, Team Elimination, Capture the Flag, Terorist Hunt, and many others. I usually play Co-Op Campaign because it's more realistic than Team Elimination. The problem with Team Elimination is that most people just run and shoot in order to increase their kills number. They don't care if they die, because they'll respawn in 10 seconds.

Co-Op Campaign allows you to team up with other human players and go through missions against the CPU. This is good because the CPU opponents actually act as a team, and will try to flank you. The AI this year is smarter than previous versions in the series, and that's always a good thing. Most hosts will set respawns off, so your human teammates will treat the missions as they would in real-life. Also, you can add CPU teammates to your team if you don't have enough human participants. The most players allowed in online servers is 16, which is a good number. I think any more than 16 would cause lag, I haven't experienced any significant lag so far, and I've owned the game since the day it was released.

Another complaint from other people is that you can't take cover behind an object and shoot around/above/under it. YES YOU CAN! All you have to do is hold the left bumper button and youtake cover. You can shoot around/above/under the object you're taking cover behind. The only thing you can't do is shoot blindly around your cover, like in Rainbow Six: Vegas. However, you CAN take cover behind objects and shoot around them. This is applicable in BOTH online and Single Player modes. Play with the buttons folks, you'll discover that you can perform many actions in this game.

Gameplay Score: 5/5

Overall, this is the best Ghost Recon game in the series. It's also the best war game available right now. I don't classify this in the same category as Rainbow Six: Vegas (RSV), because RSV is more of a tactical shooter in close quarters. GRAW 2 is more of a war game in open areas, much like what you would see on a battle field today. If you're a fan of war games at all, you need to go buy GRAW 2 whenever you have the ability.

OVERALL SCORE: 93%

Serious freezing issues

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Exchanged the game 3 times, and still suffering from total freezing in the first mission/tutorial. If you have a first gen xbox 360, be warned. i own many many xbox 360 games, and all work fine, so this was a surprise and a bummer. Hope Ubisoft handles it.

One of the best Clancy games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game! It's even better than the first! I don't know why some people keep saying that rainbow six is the best, GRAW clearly out performs it. Personally, i didn't like rainbow six all that much, but I am waiting for the sequel. Also as a side note, I did have the freezing issue, but I exchanged it and got a new one and it works great. Must be a first gen bug, I'm sure if you buy one now, it will work fine. (Also, for all of you reviewers that said that the controls were sluggish, rainbow six was sluggish and it's not halo, it's a combat simulator)

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