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Multiplayer is fun but needs improvement

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The single player game is great and others have summed it up well.

In both the single and multiplayer modes, there are only two options for control setup. The only difference between the two is how you use the joysticks - a major difference but it would have been nice to customize the controls any way you want. I can't understand why games these days don't have a free-edit mode for control setup.

The multiplayer is great fun. Action/strategy like this is a rare find. But it has some drawbacks. You can only choose from three maps. All three are excellent and give a good variety but I'd really like to see some kind of map editor or at least a set-up mode for variety. I've never really missed having a deathmatch mode since this game is all about conquest of territory. But it seems like it would be an easy addition so why not? One of the biggest glaring weaknesses of the multiplayer mode is that there is no handicapping system. This is especially true when you only have three players available! Two player games are fun, four player games are awesome, but three player games are just annoying since there are only two sides (Americans, Soviets) and no options for handicapping. One player against two will get slaughtered because there is no option to have one of your recruits grab the flag! There is no option to have a computer teammate, either (1p & 2p versus 3p & CPU). Likewise, there is no option to play multiplayer alone against the computer or have three players against the computer. Or how about just adding a third (and even fourth) country option for the multiplayer mode? All of those options would have made the game fun for an uneven number of players and more fun overall.

Still, I highly recommend the game. I can only hope they will make some changes in multiplayer for Freedom Fighters 2.

Red dawn and Freedom Fighters

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I like to think of Freedom Fighters and Red Dawn as the same, unother words I like to think that while New York City is being invaded, the same things are happening in that small town from the movie Red Dawn, as I like to think that the video game and the movie are 100% linked in every way. It's interesting really that it shows you fighting in the wilderness, then in the city. i realy hope they make Freedom Fighters into a movie!

Great shooter for beginners

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Freedom Fighters for the X Box is a cool game. The overall concept is well done and interesting. The game play is easy to pick up and figure out.

Graphics: Not the best, but they are pretty good.
Control: Easy.
Fun Factor: Could play it over and over again.

Overall: The game is fun and easy to control; however, the game itself is way to easy. It is perfect for new gamers.

Freedom Fighters

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I thought the game was very entertaining and interested... if you do not like action based games than more then likely you will not like this game... but if you like james bond kind of games than I think you should get this game.

Worst game ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 22
Date: December 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game waz terrible i played it w/ my cousins the only reason i chose 1 * waz because that was the lowest it went on a scale from 1 to 5 i give it -3. in the game you can't aim because it automaticly hits your opponents. IT takes forever and is so boring. in conclusion boooooooooooooooooooo.

HITMAN 2 is better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved Hitman 2 with the multiple routes on each level and you can go in guns blazing or use stealth. About 2 years later when Hitman 2 came out Freedom fighters came out(simular to Conflict Desert Storm). When playing the game there's not alot of originality. You can't control your team mates like in Conflict Desert Storm.

At the start of the game you are plumbing in New York and the Soviet Union come to take over New York. You armed with a Pistal run out of a building and shoot 3 Soviets when they get of a helecopter and thats been done before in a game. You then go running through the streets and there's a sense of great atmosphere with smoke and helicopters bombing the streets. You dash to a building to an injured soldier. This is new because when you sacrifice one of your medikits to a fellow citizen you get a thing called charizma.

Charizma is where you get respect and trust from soldiers on your side. The more Charizma points the more recruits you get on your side. When you get enough points to get one person helping you and you get one circle. When your hours through the game you'll eventually get 12 circles(12 recruits).

When you rescue your friend you'll go through a basic tortual. You get told how to jump, climb, go into first person view and shoot exsploding barells to catch onto enemies and to use medikits. Most of this has been done before but the game is great at its job.

When you select a fighter you can by accident pick someone with a pistal and not with a machinegun and the guy will then be useless. Another thing is that you by accident can use friendly fire against your recrutes. Couldn't both sides be a totally different colour so you don't get mixed up. A good thing is that enemy AI and your recruits are very intelligent. If you order your recruit to go charge at the enemy they will run to a great cover point and use it so they won't get shot(AI is better than Conflict Desert Storm)and they put their back against the wall Metal Gear Solid style and then shoot at the enemies.

A big problem is where you have 3 levels to choose from and one of the levals is important to go on first. On a firestation level there is a flying helicopter that guns you down and it's not a good idea to go on that level first. The game should of made it clear that you should go on an other level to find some C4 and plant it next to the parked helipad to blow it so it doesn't rip you to pieces on the Fire Station level. On your second go of the game you will obviously forgive the game.

There's nothing worse than you running with your group confidently with your team and then a Soviet using a gun turret puts your life away for good buy shooting you down. There could of at least be more save points plotted around the big maps because it's annoying to restart each level again . When your team mate gets badly injured it can be hard to find where he is so that you can heal him to work for you again. A useful thing is that when you push back it shows the map with red dots to show where your mate is who's been put out of action.

The game can be great fun at times because the controls are as simple as it can get. You push R Trigger to fire, Left Trigger to jump or climb, Black button to crouch(this can be frustrating because when your trying to stand up by pushing the button again you die because it takes you a while to reach for the button).
White Button Melee(use butt of riffle to kill enemy), (A) is to recruit soldier or yourself to interact, (B)tell recruits to guard area, (Y)to tell soldiers to attack enemies in front, (X)command soldiers to follow yourself, Left analogue stick to move your own character and you can also click in the right analogue stick to change weapons or medikits. You push back to get a map of the level showing you where the manholes are for the sewers and that's where you can save.

The game is fun with you ambushing a group of soviets with your helpers close behind. If you have 6 recruits you can order 1 recruit to use a gun turret and another to guard the guy, you can use 2 other men to charge at the Soviets and the remaining 2 guarding yourself and thats whats best about the game(team work).

This game is very Cinematic with better music than Medal of Honour Rising Sun. You can shoot cars that exsplode and then it kills enemys. You also have Frag Grenades and Molotovs at your desposol and the bad thing is it can be hard to kill your enemy with a frag grenade on your first go because they just get back up after flying across the room.

This game is great to buy for a teamed based shooter but my advice is to rent it to see if its annoying for you, but it's lacking in originality. Don't bother buying the 2 Conflict Desert Storms because there both too simular. When you buy one of the Conflict Desert Storm this is worthy to your collection.

Great fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Awsome game! you get a chance to command your troops into battle, and the game has lots of action in it too! The multiplayer is really REALLY cool, you get to command either Soviet, or American. Capturing the flag is fun. But thats the only thing you do, or. At least the only mode you can play. Awsome game though. I strongly suggest buying it for Xbox so you can play four player.

For young gamers

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It took me about 3 days to finish this game on the highest difficulty. I since traded it in. There is little challenge to it. If your looking for a descent rental, this is it. If you like the movie "Red Dawn", you will enjoy this because it is nearly a complete ripoff of it.

+good control and easy team commands
+par graphics and sound for Xbox
+great for a younger gamer
+cool locations

-somewhat weak and very unoriginal plot
-too short and too easy
-Good but VERY repetitive soundtrack
-no special ending on hardest difficulty

I've grown to like this game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game and first played it on the easiet difficulty setting. I beat it in around 3 hours. I was a little dissapointed, thinking I had wasted my money. Then I switched to a a harder setting and then the game became a whole lot more fun. The only major complaint is you have to use your "health kits" manually. I think that if you automatically reload your gun, you can heal yourself too. The sound track (done by the same guy who does the music for the Hitman series) is really good too. What GTA vice city is to Scarface, this game is to the movie Red Dawn. Another $20 winner. I just wish it was longer.
I'd go for it. I also recommend "XIII", and "Hitman contracts".

Love it!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

funny, my amazone account recommended it, and I kept ignoring it.
I saw it at Toys R Us (...), and picked it up. I must mention I bought Red dead Revolver too(which I was really excited about). My friend and I ended up not putting this game down, and never touching Red Dead. It is the ultimate Red Dawn video game experience. The graphics are good, the music is really good, and the gameplay is just all around fun. I live in brooklyn, so the fact that it takes place there is even more amusing. Although we don't have a problem with Russians here.
Anyways, do yourself a favor. Get it. It's my new favorite game on the xbox as of now.

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