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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 42
Date: December 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

the game kicks ass it is fun the part that is the best you and 3 frieands can play at once get this game now.

Brute Force is the best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 30
Date: April 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

These are the kind of games that put PS2 to shame. Brute Force will be the biggest video game ever! The graphics are perfect and amazing. The gameplay backs it up pretty good. I'm fine with all the delays but, they better just make it that much better. My friends and I have been waiting for the release for a long time now. Trust me this game will stun and you won't be disapointed.

A Game Worthy of Halo-Like Praise

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: June 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Brute Force finally brings a new XBox game out to rival Halo's fantastic gameplay and graphics. And it is fantastic in multiplay!

First off, the graphics are just AMAZING. From the opening cut-scene, to the levels you play through and the on-screen controls, it's just beautiful. They put an amazing amount of work into the art and design of the game, and it shows. The world you work through feels *real*.

In many ways this is obviously a version of Halo. The large selection of weapons, the four types of grenades, the great comments the characters make, the fighting-space-enemies in a futuristic environment. This isn't a bad thing - Halo was an incredible game and Brute Force shares many of the same great qualities.

And Brute Force takes it a step beyond. In Halo, you had great AI teammates to help you out, but no real multiplayer. If you had local co-op, you had two Master Chiefs. In Brute Force, there are four distinct players. When you're playing single player, you can swap amongst them, using whichever one has the best skills for the task. The other become your backup, following your orders and supporting you.

But multiplayer is where this game is truly amazing. The game is very obviously created for multiplay, with the multiplayer options being integral to the game. Set up your system link and join multiplay games of all varieties, choosing your favorite character and weapon combination to truly customize how you play. Speed is blisteringly fast, and many players out there are already top-notch.

Where the built in campaign is amazingly fun and can be played (if Halo is any judge) for months on end, the fact that multiplay gives you endless players and new downloadable maps means the game could in essence be played ... forever!

Highly, highly recommended for anyone who loved Halo. And if you don't have your system link set up, be sure to do that as well! Together, Brute Force / multiplay creates just about everything you could want in a shooting-action game.

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!

I've read the info, I've seen the videos and I know the game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 90 / 141
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for the next video game to suck you in to another world and never let go, like Halo...this is it! It's not be first-person shooter like Halo, but don't let that stop you! The game is a third-person shooter being published by Microsoft and if all the hype is true, will remind you why the XBOX is the most powerful gaming machine in the world. Let me tell you the cool features.

CONTROLS OF MULTIPLE PEOPLE: Rather than control one character like in Halo, you control a team of four commandos, each with their own skills. You use the skills and abilities of each commandos for certain tasks. Imagine using a highly skilled sniper that can take out an enemy in a single precise shot, then using the assault trooper to take on a platoon of troops, then finishing of the base with your demoltion specialist.

TONS OF LEVELS: There will be six different exotic worlds, each with a unique environment, enemies and gameplay strategies. Gamers will learn how to best use the unique abilities of the commandos to survive in each world.

MULTILAYER: My favorite part of Halo was the multiplayer. And just like Halo, Brute Force will have Co-op and deathmatch mulitplayer for up to four gamers. While in Halo you can only have two players in co-op now you can battle it out with up to three friends through the entire mission campaign. Each player can select which member of the squad to control, and jump in or out of the game at any time. Snipe the enemy from behind while squad-mates blaze forward with the heavy stuff. Or sneak ahead as the scout to decide how to instruct teammates to fight with optimal tactics. Also, friends can battle it out against one another in a variety of deathmatch modes.

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT: How does miniguns, Sonic Cannons, Stealth Suits, Sniper Rifles, and Psychic Blasts sound?, Each weapon is specifically designed to take advantage of certain enemies and environments. Like in Halo you must learn the strengths of each weapon to best exploit the weaknesses of your foe.

AMAZING GRAPHICS and SOUND: If you thought you have seen gorgeous graphics, you haven't seen nothing yet. This game will blow you away. Not to mention the sound. Many games coming out for the XBOX support Dolby 5.1 surround and Brute Force is no exception.

So there you have it. Brute Force will be one more reason that the XBOX is the best video game machine in the world. I think Brute Force, Panzar Dragoon, and Unreal Championship will show people how good video games can really look. Well, at least until Doom III and Halo 2 come out next year.

Brute Force is its own game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: May 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've played Brute Force for 2 days now and this is my second review. My first impression of the game was that it is hardly tactical and mostly blow everything up. I now change my position, a little bit. Brute Force is tilted more towards being a pure shooter, but it is a lot more tactical than most reviewers give it credit for. I finally figured out what it is about BF that takes away from its strategic quality. It is the liberal respawning that pretty much allows the player to just run and gun, get killed, and then respawn. The enemy doesn't respawn and it doesn't start the whole level again. To me, that is called "unlimited life." You needed a code for something like that in Super Mario Brothers! In Brute Force you don't really suffer the consequences of a bad strategy because you just keep on respawning. Even after your whole squad gets killed, your whole squad will respawn and pick up where you had left off. Maybe there are stats that will get affected by your constant dying and respawning, but if there is, I really haven't felt the repurcusions. That's the main thing, if not the ONLY thing that makes BF play like a non-tactical shooter.

Other than that, Brute Force is a solid squad shooter that requires plenty of strategy. If you actually took the time to calculate how many deaths you suffer in each mission and in between objectives, you're quickly going to realize that this game is no cakewalk and that there is a lot more to it than just shooting everything you can. The respawn feature gives you the illusion of invincibility. What it actually does is that instead of having 4 team members going up against dozens of enemy aliens, you would actually have about a hundred squad soldiers going up against a relatively small horde of aliens. It turns into a numbers game where the bigger army (that's YOU) defeats the smaller one (the aliens who cannot respawn). I'm not sure if there's an option to limit your respawns or to cancel it altogether and if there is, then I'll make sure to use that option. But Brute Force is undeniably one of the best squad games I've seen because of the adrenaline involved. I've read people's reviews that criticize it saying that you go from point A to point B and you just kill everything in between. True, but how is that any different from Halo? One thing I admit, however, is the commands available to you are too basic. I would prefer Conflict Desert Storm's command options because you could do a couple of more fundamental things like order your squad to get down and give each other med kits and weapons. BF sort of makes up for the latter by giving all players the same ammo and med pack when one of the squad members find it. Also, one thing I noticed was that the computer controlled team members dies a lot faster than the human-controlled ones. I've read in the previws that the AI of your squad is set up in a way that your squad will always look to preserve itself and not go out mindlessly and just get killed. So far it seems as though the opposite is true. In Conflict Desert Storm the computer-controlled squad member does better than the human-controlled, and you can be sure that he will get your back. BF's squad AI is a little suspect, but maybe it's because I'm not using the correct strategy.

In conclusion I would like to say that Brute Force is a good tactical squad game and a great shooter. It probably works best with four players since you won't have to worry about the questionnable AI of your squad. It is still an excellent one-player game, you just have to really plot your moves, which is the whole point of squad-based shooters. While comparisons with Halo are unavoidable, Brute Force is an entirely different animal. Given, there are similarities between the two, but let me be one of the first to say that Brute Force is a deeper game than Halo simply because of the squad play. After the middle of Halo things became really mundane. They threw in the Warthog, a tank and a coupe of other rides to change the pace a little bit, but at the end of the day, Halo is still a pure shooter that really requires little strategy. Brute Force isn't that much more innovative but the environments are just more real and the firefights much more intense than Halo's. In Halo you had a bunch of running targets but you had the advantage. Plenty of times in Brute Force you will find your squad being attacked from all angles by intelligent aliens. Bullets will start flying from all angles and you wouldn't know where to begin your retaliation. Is it better than Halo? It is a matter of opinion. But it definitely is more technical and requires more strategy.

This game is extrmely good, and i have actually played it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 33
Date: November 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Everyone who says that this game isn't as good as halo is totally wrong. I own Halo and i love it (rapped it 6 times now twice on legendary!) but i think Brute Force takes the cake over Halo. My uncle hooked me up with playing the unfinished game and my eyes almost fell out the graphics are so good the story line is excellent and extremely deep. There are alot of mind boggling weapons and a large variety of protagonists. The idea of being the 4 people instead of just one is excellent.

This Game is Straight Pimp.

Ghost Recon Meets Halo in Brute Force Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 17
Date: June 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Hi All. I have been on a game buying spree for summer the past month, buying 7 games, so I told myself I would not buy another game, but after watching the Brute Force trailers, I purchased Brute Force yesterday, and have already got my fifty bucks worth of fun out of the game, and am still doing the training missions.
Brute Force is a great game, its like Ghost Recon mixed with Halo. The first tutorial mission, seemed kinda wimpy, but by the time it ended I was having a blast literally, tossing fraq grenades, learning how to move, what weapons do what, etc.
Without giving any of the game away, training mission #2 is one of the most beautiful looking and sounding game missions I have ever played. I plan to play it on all 3 difficulty levels.
Multiplayer sci fi fans, will have a field day with Brute Force. Both System Link and XBox Live Support, and players can plug in and out at any time.
The cut scenes are some of the best in gaming history, and the best looking Brute Force missions, look better than non XBox cut scenes and games. Waiting for Halo 2, this game is what to play while you are waiting.
Music, audio, voices, and sound effects are great, another reason to have a Dolby 5.1 setup.
Brute Force whether single player or multiplayer is great fun. Its another reason to buy an XBox if you do not have one, and another game to show off what the XBox can do.
I played the game till 2am last night, and again this afternoon, and will be playing again later tonight. Believe all the Hype on this game. Its all true.
May the Brute Force Be With You.
Happy XBox
Timothy Kelly
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STOP SAYING THE GAME IS BETTER THAN HALO!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 29
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think that Brute Force is gonna be a terrific game... I've seen the videos and read about, but there is one thing that's bothering me. All these people say that Brute Force is gonna be better than Halo and I'm pretty confident in saying that they probably never even played Brute Force...... Look people, it's gonna take more than fancy graphics and great gameplay to beat Halo, a game that already has those things. It's gonna take a DEEP ... story line and 100000000000000000000000000 ton of replay value, dont forget an addictive multiplayer... Besides, even if the game is better than Halo, big deal, then there was Halo 2.....
Dont get me wrong though. I am very excited about Brute Force and even more since I found it will be an xbox live game. XBox Live's lineup is stronger than the xbox's launch lineup, which says a lot....mechassault, unreal championship, and others...Maybe the ps2 does have some competition...

This is going to be one of X-Box's best.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: August 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game looks awsome. The graphics rule, the game play seems awsome and with 4 player campain the game is for sure going to be one of X-Box's best sellers. Cant wait for it to come out.

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