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Game freeze problem and bad customer support!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Good: This title has great and improved graphics. Little tweaks that give this game almost prefect gameplay.

Bad: Short single player campagin. Buggy online voice communication and people drops offline are very common. A little pricer than the last title.

Ugly: Freezing bug (undetermined reasons from software or hardware) makes this game totally unplayable on some old XBox360. Some have even reported that the game bricking their consoles (the 3 red light of doom). Hundreds of complains on the Ubi and MSLive forums but yet any reponse from the companies in the first week. This kind of customer support really breaks many gamers' heart.

extremely disappointing...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I liked the first Ghost Recon. It was challenging, had some length to it, and was a pretty good game.
Ghost Recon 2 is supposed to be all-new and improved with new features. It's not. It's not even worthy of having 2 in the title, because it's not much more than a sad overpriced expansion pack.
They don't even try with the story. The game is RIDICULOUSLY short. I completed this in a few short hours. Definitely not worth 60 bucks!!!!
Since Rainbox Six: Vegas came out, the whole FPS scene has changed. Save yourself the couple of hours it takes to complete this forgettable game, and save the $60 you'd spend on it. Instead buy RS Vegas and see what the greatest FPS ever made looks like (and it's at least a very challenging, fun, and lengthy game).

G.W.A.R. has no idea how to make an enjoyable co-op

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Don't get me wrong, I really loved playing Rainbow Six Vegas and I can't wait for another game like that, but G.W.A.R. has simply not been fun for me.

First off, although the box says "co-op" there is no cooperative single-player campaign. Instead, you set up a single-map with different rules and such. This was a big let-down for me because co-op campaigns are my favorite games to play.

Since GWAR doesn't seem to know what an enjoyable co-op is, I'm going to stop buying any of the future GWA games and spend my money instead on well-done co-ops like Army of Two.

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.

Company Sent WRONG Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is alright, and came in a timely manner. However, we ordered GRAW2 and instead, surprise, GRAW1 came in the mail. Dissapointing.

Rental Yes. Purchase No.

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

This game leaves a lot to be desired. The best thing about this game is the toon's movements. Running, crouching, firing etc all look very good.

While it is a good looking game, the single player missions are very short and there are way too many cut scenes. Making my controller vibrate for 5 minutes during an unnecessary Humvee ride just drains my batteries and my patience. The overall storyline of "OMG ROGUE NUKES" is pretty lame.

I didn't enjoy the aiming aspect of this game. I know it's supposed to be wide open while RSV is close quarters, but I never got within 50 yards of an enemey. You just get your gun near, wait for the crosshairs to change and pull the trigger. It was too automatic. They needed to mix up the action.

The remote units are overdone. I don't need to see the camera angle of my remotes, besides when you use that feature your toon just sits still. Boring. The chopper was fun to command, but in the whole game you only get it for a few minutes. The remotes may have been more enjoyable if they required actual tactics. Your team's AI leaves a lot to be desired. Example, if you target someone to kill and then move slightly and target them again your team leaves cover and runs toward your target. That is stupid. Also, after completing the entire game I was still unsure of the best way to heal teammates.

The HUD is also overdone. I felt like I was controlling a terminator, not a ghost.

Online play is not very enjoyable. Again, everything is done from such a distance I feel somewhat detached. There's a lot of sneaking around, but with none of the suspense of RSV. If someone gets you in their crosshairs from across the map, they will not miss (unless you ar running). This takes the skill away.

As mentioned, the gun reacts slowly. If a terrorist runs across your screen you can't lead him with your gun, he will outrun your crosshairs. That's particularly annoying.

I wish I would have rented this instead of buying it. As a rental I would probably rate it higher, $60 later and very little replay value and it's a 3 star game at best.

QUICK EDIT: This game also froze my xbox several times, and my xbox is only a few months old. Every other cutscene required a hard reboot!

glad I rented it...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Heard this was a short game, so I rented it from Blockbuster for 7 bucks, finished it in about 4 nights (Probably 9 hours). Games are becoming increasingly short and/or unchallenging nowadays... That said, the game is a lot of fun, but not for sale at 60 bucks!

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.

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.

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.

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