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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.

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

Oh so much fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: October 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In various terms Freedom Fighters was fantastic. Gameplay was a bit odd at first but some custome touches to your controler settings solves the little problem. The graphics were excellent quality for an X-Box game(even the PS2 ver. was well processed)including the nice cut sceens inbetwen chapters. The story was simple but involving. No by far this game was solid for its basic Game design. The levels and missions were well designed that included various mini objectives that would affect other areas, making it nice to switch from one zone to the other on the fly to weeken the enemy deffenses systematicaly. The basic area layouts were well done, making some areas seem bigger then they actually were and allowing for more then one way to approche a target or even win the mission. Also the team commands were simple and on the spot recruting was well managed allowing you to fight with up to 12 other freedom fighters.

I await another IO game. I want a Hitman 3 and Freedom Fighters 2. Keep up the good work gents!

My only down points are as follows, more multi player maps, more mini objectives, a more complex item/resouce management/gathering system while in the base, and the ability to start missions with a small team while still keeping the "hire" on the fly. But I expect these in a hopefull (please) sequel.

Cheers... GREY

Great Game and Lots of fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was a little hesitant to pick up this title. The name had changed several times and they pushed the game back all the way up to the release. For instance it was supposed to be released in the end of Sept but it was pushed back till Oct for some reason. I heard some mixed reviews about the game so I almost didn't buy it. But I'm glad I changed my mind. I have had a blast playing this game. Honestly my only major complaint is that I want more. It just seems that if they added just a touch more than this game would be one of the top games to get for the xbox. The multiplayer aspect is fun but if they really need to add at least three more maps. Also some variations on the objectives instead of only playing their version of capture the flag. This game is screaming for xbox live support. The maps could've been downloadable content. But it seems that microsoft and EA can never play nice when it comes to xbox live. Other than my couple of complaints this game is a lot of fun. I like switching between areas to complete various objectives such as blowing up helicopters and destroying bridges. Which makes other missions easier. I do have another complaint in the mini objectives though. There should be a variety to the mini objectives instead of the same three over and over. Instead they just increase the number of objectives. So in one mission you may have to blow up a bridge. Then in the second mission you have to blow up two bridges or three bridges. And there always seems to be a helipad to blow up too. A larger variety in weapons would be nice as well. Sure there are rocket launchers but if you have one then you don't have a machine gun. And if you find a sub machine gun then good luck finding enough ammo. So you end up just using the assault rifle 95% of the time. All of this would have really helped this game but its still a ton of fun. It will definitely keep you busy until the big releases of the year start coming out in late oct through the holiday season.

Beautifully simple

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has alot of fun elements. Both the single player and multiplayer I enjoyed.

Graphics: The graphics are good. They border on cell-shading.

Sound: Again, it's good. The people will say some funny things to you like "I'm not your huckleberry" when you try to recruit them without enough spots on your squad.

Camera View: 3rd person. It's easy to move around with it, no complaints.

Weapons: On multiplayers the soviets get grenades, pistol, and an ak-47; Americans get rebel weapons like molotov cocktails, pistol, and a shotgun. Other guns you get are a rocket launcher, sniper rifle, gun turrets, and flamethrower.

Single Player: I have always liked movies like 'Red Dawn' that dealt with the Soviets invading us and I was pretty satisfied with the plot. Not much strategy is needed on the levels on easy but on higher difficulties you do. The cut scenes are interesting.

Multiplayer: Some people who reviewed this game didn't think much of the multiplayer, but I really enjoyed it. Some flaws are that there are only three levels, taking over bunkers doesn't always work right, and three player multiplayer is always a lopsided fight no matter who is fighting.

lo does it again!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the AI in this game is amazing. the men/women you recruit not only follow your orders, they are also highly intuitive- for example, they wont only stay in the area you send them, they will find cover, the will duck during heavy enemy fire, and will search out and destroy all enemies within a perimeter.
F.F.'s is so much more tactical than i thought it would be. i love sending out three of my team to one area and another three soldiers to another- it's just so COOL!
it took me a very long time to purchase this game. i pretty much figured that i'd just stay happy with lo interactive's (is it lo or io???) hitman series and not push my luck with some of their side projects- well 'luck' had it that i recently saw this game for $15 and said, "why not?" suffice it to say that i'm really surprised, and will now ALWAYS purchase games that lo interactive puts out.
the reason i'm not giving my overall score a five is because i have yet to play the multiplayer and judging by other people's reviews, it's not that great. although- the single player ROCKS far more than i ever thought possible so...
...i highly recommend this must-have title!!!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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".

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