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Excellent cooperative play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I reviewed this product earlier and gave it four stars for four stars for single-player mode. The detailed graphics and overall game play overcame the game's few flaws. But at that point I had only played single player mode. Since then, I've got the chance to do quite a bit of 4-way cooperative action, and I have to say it's been some of the most fun I've had on my Xbox in a while.

Being able to have a friend just plug in a controller and start blasting away is great. No quitting your current mission and restarting from scratch.

Sure, having to play on a quarter of a TV screen is kind of a drag, but I didn't think there was that much of a sacrifice in terms of graphics. Certainly the action was very smooth, with the frame rate ticking over at a rapid clip even during the most action-packed sequences.

Although there is no way to switch characters with someone during play, if two or more people die, you can choose who you want to be respawned as.

It is cool, too, that you don't have to set up a special cooperative mission profile that is separate from what you've done in single player mode. I had finished the first few missions solo, and my friends and I were able to continue playing in that profile. When I return to solo play, I will pick up where the four of us left off. No need to repeat everything we did.

I have many other shooters -- Halo, Ghost Recon, Medal of Honor, Return to Castle Wolfenstein -- and this is only one that gives you 4-way cooperative action. For those of us who don't have Live or enough fellow Xboxers to do system link, this is a real boon.

Coming soon: my deathmatch review!

good, but not halo good!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Brute Force is a fun, and addicting game with four awesome characters and awesome graphics and levels. But, it is not as good as halo. The levels can get annoying and if you get lost, you could spend an eternity finding your way to the location needed. I would still buy it to kill off time until halo 2. A great game for you and three friends!

Excellent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Brute Force is an awesome game, second only to Halo. You are an elite assault squad in the far future that protects the confederation and restores peace. The characters are Tex, an assault trooper, Brutus, a feral alien, Flint, a cyborg sniper, and Hawk, a stealth expert. They all have indivual weapons and special abilties. Tex's favorite weapon is the minigun and Flint's is the sniper rifle. Tex can hold two weapons at once and Hawk can turn invisible temporarily. There are numerous enemies like Brutus' outcast savage kin and human rebel soldiers. The graphics are amazing and the multiplayer is fun. This game follow's in Halo' footsteps as a fantastic game.

One thing I wish they'd change...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's a very good game. My only gripe is that they have status-bars/on-screen-displays which Stay on the screen in Each corner of the TV screen. Get with the times game makers & make these games more realistic and Projection TV & Plasma TV friendly! Make it so that you press the Start button or another button when you want to view the Radar Screen, which is Always at the bottom left-hand corner in this game. If you get wounded, make your vision go blurry or have your character fall-down like you would in Reality. This game Does have the characters actually say out loud that they are hurt or in need of medical attention which is Great! But if you're running out of ammo, have the character either automatically reload or just say out loud something like "Need to reload" and you Won't need the Ammo Status Bars. Not to mention the fact that permanent on-screen displays result in Screen Burn-In on Projection TV's as well as the new Plasma TV's! I have emailed Microsoft and other manufacturer's asking them to eliminate On-Screen Displays from games for the reasons above, as well as the fact that it looks Awesome when you can see the Entire area ALL the time, without anything blocking your view. Are you listening HALO 2 game designers???!! Don't make games that have Any objects which stay on the screen all the time. Or at least, make an "Option" in the options menu to be able to Turn Them Off if you want to. Thanks!

oh, fi thsi game could have Live multiplayer...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The hype is well deserved for Brute Force--I was quite surprised by how much tactical planning you have to do in each mission--do I send Tex up ahead and have hawk sneak up on the enemy in her sleath mod? Or can flint snipe that guard on the crossway down that hill/ Can brutus hold his ground without getting killed? Where is that enemy fire coming from?

This game can becme very chaotic, very quickly! It was chilling to hear my squad cal out for a medic as they were under fire ad saying,"one more hit and I'm a goner..." yeah you can send in the clones, butit'll cost you ome serious doughif you keep messing up. Learning each member's special powers and skills was half the fun! But you can NOT waste them against the AI opponents--they're very, very smart!

There will be Live downloads, but no Live multiplayer--that's the only flaw I have with it. If you have friends over often for a system ilnk throwdown, this game will be very, very popular !

Not Halo (not by a longshot) but not bad either

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Brute Force is a decent game and worth buying. But if you are thinking its the second coming of Halo, looks like you will have to wait for the boys at Bungie to finish their current project.

The controls are very similar to Halo - so that does put you at home and the different characters do add some flavor. I played multiplayer for the first time this week. It was fun and some of the maps are very good for multiple players. No vehicles though - which I did kind of miss.

Bottom line - decent game, the graphics are very good. Definitely worth picking up if you are into third person shooters.

Ccraig@Waalllmart

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game compared to all the other games I played. If you liked Halo than you will like this game. So far next to Halo it is the best first-person shooter game. If you are thinking about buying this game don't hesitate. I liked it and I hope you will. If you did buy it and your stuck just keep trying and eventuly you will beet it. It took me 2 months to get past a level ,but I beat it then the next one.

solid game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I found this to be a very enjoyable game. It's not without its faults, though: the design of some of the levels is very repetitive, and as such some of them are rather easy to get lost in. I'm not too fond of running around in circles, trying to figure out why my nav beacon is telling me to go left when I've already been left and couldn't find whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing. Also, there are way too many cliffs that it seems like the characters should be able to run up that you aren't allowed to run up. The game's designers should have figured out a better way of sectioning off the closed areas of the game. Still, these are fairly minor gripes, and on the whole I had a lot of fun playing through the single-player campaign. I haven't played the game in linked multiplayer mode, but my guess is that it would be tremendously fun.

Fun but not as good as Halo

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The initial reviews set my expectations really high to a point where I was expecting a "Halo quality" game. It is no where close to Halo in terms of video/audio. But it is still a fun game to play especially since there are very few quality co-op games out there.,

I can't wait for Halo 2

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have been longing for a game to match Halo, but this definitely isn't it. I'm always surprised by the variance in the reviews, and equally surprised that this game got any excellent reviews. But, everyone is entitled to an opinion and here's mine.

I came close to buying this game before playing it. Thankfully, I found ample copies to rent and didn't make that mistake.
RENT THIS GAME BEFORE YOU BUY IT.

About the game:
The visuals, such as sky scenes etc. are excellent, and that's about where the good part ends. The game play is jerky and boring. There is no stealth. You walk around a wall/hill and the enemies always notice and shoot you first, you kill that group, walk around the next wall/rock and repeat. The weapon names mean nothing, the shooting action is archaic (from a video game stand point), and each weapon's killing power is unpredictable and inconsistent. You can kill one enemy with two shots across a valley and then blast one ten times right next to you and it will not die. I don't demand a lot of story line out of a video game, but this one is lacking. I found the episodes fighting against Shardoon (spelling?) to be particularly annoying.

For a new game that was hyped, I was disappointed. The quality of this game is only slightly better than Turok. Playing this game was like reading a bad book: I just wanted to get to the end.

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