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A good game if you are playing coop

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I think the reviews are a bit harsh actually. This game is quite good on the PC but I think you can only enjoy this game if you play it as a LAN Cooperative game.

The only real flaw in this game in my opinion is that the AI seems to pick on player 2, and if you are player 2 then expect yourself to be shot as soon as you poke your nose around the corner.

A great game though and it is better than the first one.

Pity you cant stick to walls on the PC like in Rainbow six vegas

More realistic than the other Ghost Recons

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

GRAW2 or GR3 is the best because it does NOT allow stupid fantasy crap like jumping into other squad members or controlling other squads- you must fight just you and your squad. You can plot out several moves and attack with Recon and Attack modes then execute all and go with your squad.

Also, you can get shot a couple of times and keep going but if it's in the head or a machine gun burst (not rifle) you are dead. Also, if you don't use cover you won't get through- just like reality, you don't run into the open and stand there firing your weapon, would you? There are times when you must have a ZEUS or grenades to get past a section so kit up when you set your squad.

Awesome.

Good deal

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

They ruined a few small things that were popular in the original, but overall the game was fun in its own experience.

Some cons though: cannot pick up other guns, causes you to run out of ammo quickly with the sniper rifle; checkpoint saving only, which means you have to replay hard areas multiple times.

good points though:very challenging, ultra realistic.
if you like run and gun style games like old school MOHAA, then this is NOT your game.

XBOX 360 version is bad..really bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I got an XBOX 360 this Christmas and got this game on the strength of the earlier Ghost Recon games I had played on the PC version. To be fair I played this after just having just finished Call of Duty 4 (which is fantastic), but I have found this sim, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare, nothing but frustration, and I have stopped half way through. After having gone through a scenario at least 30 times and still no closer to getting out of the situation I went to build my own great wall of China. I figured my time would be better spent and and it won't take as long to finish. Thank heavens I bought it used for half price. I would be slashing my wrists if I'd paid full price.

The graphics are good, the story line, as far as I got into it is okay, but the controls are difficult to manage and things happen far too fast for the clumsy controls layout to keep up with and the AI enemy is deadlier than the terminator.

Avoid avoid, avoid!!!

Looks very good and is very hard to play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing Ghost Recon games from the very begining. This incarnation looks very good but is a hard game to play. The old GR games had AI that picked you off with one shot, this one is more accurate in that you get hit and can still keep going.
The graphics are very pretty.
My only complaint is that the missions go on and on. You get to one mission objective and are given another and another. My friend and I are playing the missions on CO-OP mode and that is very fun.
Once in a while the game crashs to the desk top but it is a good time to hang it up for the night.
Missions have long load times also.

Pretty but broken

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The good:

- Great looking game.
- Big maps.
- Pretty explosions.

The bad:
- The AI is wretched. Your "advanced warfighters" can't navigate stairs and walk backwards towards the enemy. The tanks in particular are suicidal. They get hung on move orders, so they think they can't move there (where "there" is about 10 feet away). While hung they won't fight, so they will just sit there and get pounded by enemy tanks.
- Lots of bugs, even with the latest patch. It crashes all the time and it just corrupted one of my save games. I was going to hold off writing a review till I beat it, but I'm done with this piece of crap.
- No quick saves, so you have to fight three squads of entrenched, machine gun supported enemies between checkpoints. God forbid you kill the first two squads and then get nailed by a sniper on the last squad.

Different... but Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Once you get past the fact that this is not the same as earlier GR releases on the PC, it is a fun game as well as being visually stunning. It is also difficult.

AI & Movement: The AI is intelligent, at sometimes I think the enemy AI behaves better than your squad AI. Having said this, you have to be careful when moving. If you're making a lot of noise the enemy will know what direction you're coming from. i.e. running and hitting items as opposed to sneaking/peaking. But, I do enjoy the new feature of running and sliding (either to prone or on character's back)

Squad-play: You're the squad leader and your survival is paramount. Due to this, you'll have to utilize your team and tactics to survive. Thankfully, the latest patches fixed some of the squad-related glitches.

It's also too bad that you don't have as many options (weapons, etc) when it comes to outfitting your squad. I do enjoy firing the sniper rifle *Through* objects but it has a slow reload (even for a bolt-action) and reacquire target time. I also miss "unlocking" characters w/ special abilities and the like.

Overall it is an enjoyable game and I look forward to the developments of GRAW2. However it's a toss up between getting the console or PC version.

Not as good as the first ones, but not THAT bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Most of the crux of other reviewers complaints re load times, inflexibility, checkpoint save system, AI relative stupdity etc. are true. The game in and of itself is not that bad though, it simply is very poor in comparison to the originals, which had few if any of these problems. I paid $[...] plus shipping with an Amazon partner - was it worth that? All day long...

Go for the graphics!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My husband loves it - can't tell you why, but the graphics look great.

Not in the tradition of Ghost Recon

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What made Ghost Recon a great game has been removed from GRAW. The open play of the previous games in this series is missing. Not being able to Save your progress except at the checkpoints takes away from the fun. Forces you to replay long segments for one bad mistake.

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