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Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is very fun. I like it so much! Here's some more detail about it:

Graphics: 5 out of 5

The graphics are simply amazing. Character models look great, the weather effects are great, the explosions and bullet impacts look spectacular. This is one pretty game.

Sound: 5 out of 5

The sound is wonderful! The voice acting is great, the explosion sounds are great, the guns sound spectacular, and the russians speak with a real accent. (And I think the real language, but i don't speak russian)

Gameplay: 5 out of 5

You recruit guys and fight a guerrilla war through the streets of New York. It is very fun. You can recruit from 1 to 12 guys depending on how many charisma circles you have. You get those by filling up your charisma bar. You fill up your charsima bar by completing objectives, destroying targets, and healing civilians. You can also heal fellow freedom fighters and get them to fight for you. You can even heal wounded-and-left-for-dead russians and they will fight for you! The battles are also spectacular and intense. You have 2 to 5 levels in a mission (bureau of NYC) and there are about 9 or so missions (bureaus including governor's island). You can do the bureau levels in any order. What you do in one mission affects the next. For example, if you do the harbor before the fire station, there will be no enemy attack helecopter to kill you because you destroyed the helipad in the harbor. However, if you do the fire station first, there will be one. There are also sewage wells throughout the levels (about 4), so you can go to a different level before completing it.

Lengthetivity: 5 out of 5

This is a challenging game. However, all four difficulty levels are easy except the fourth. The fourth is semi-hard, but it is not impossible. This has a good lengthetivity. It is fun, so you'll play this for a long time.

Multiplayer: 4 out of 5

Very fun, however there are two drawbacks: 1)There are only three levels and 2)There is only one game mode. The mode is take over the flag. You get bunkers for your army and go take over the flag. You could also make this mode into your creative modes, such as kill the other player, take over the bunkers, or big battle (you don't have to play by the rules of the game mode). This is extremely fun to play with friends or family, but don't buy this game for multiplayer alone. (the single player is great, too.)

Average: 5 out of 5

Rent or Buy?

Buy. Definitly. This game is one of the best games ever. A must-have.

Pros:

1. Awsome graphics
2. Awsome sound
3. Challenging
4. Good Idea
5. Spectacular gameplay
6. Good music
7. Extremely fun

Cons:

1. There could've been a better save system
2. There could've been more multiplayer

If you are an action fan you must have this game. If you are alive you must have this game. Buy it immediatly! It is a must-have!

Fun squad supported shooter!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, yes you can manually aim at targets (some other reviewers didn't play the game long enough) also there is an excellent auto-targeting system. Made by the same people who did Hitman 2 (another excellent game), Freedom Fighters brings to the table awesome firefights in very detailed environments. The sound and music is excellent bringing back memories of watching "Hunt for Red October" and "Red Dawn". The game begins as a third person shooter, but soon evolves into your strategic command of a small band of fighters. You will dominate the battle field and slaughter the soviets, however their Hind attack helicopters are unstoppable and rain death on your troops. As shooters go, this one has a very good story told mostly by soviet news propoganda. In all this game has good enemy and friendly A.I., excellent weapons, great looking, large level maps, and addictively satisfying gameplay. This is an excellent squad shooter!

omg, kick*ss

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game on sunday, 10/5/03. I am playing through the single player campaign right now. It is pure genius!!! The plot is deep and one you may actually care about, a bit. The recruit and command function is greatly done, and so is the charisma system. The multiplayer is awesome, the only drawback is not having LIVE, at least system link (yes, I bought it for XBOX). If it had that, this would make a great game complete. This is fun and the graphics are superb. I love this game and recommend it to you. Even beginner action gamers will enjoy the simplistic controls, nonstop action, and fluent gameplay. There, now would you like Freedom Fighters as a game permenant in your game library?

Better Dead Than Red

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'll start off by saying that this is a very enjoyable game. From start to finish the story pulls you in and the gameplay is just great. The voice acting is some of the best I've heard in a long time. I will also agree with the reviewer that says you will actually care about the characters and what happens to them. The only poblem with this premise is that you do not connect with your recruits, just the main characters. The gameplay is good, the characters reminded me a lot of the pedestrians from State of Emergency. Along with the gameplay is the problem of commanding your recruits. Pretty much all that there is is hold position and follow. With games like Conflict: Desert Storm, you would think that developers would make it more in depth and be able to better control your fellow 'uprisers.' A really cool thing is how the lead character changes as the game progresses and according to the weather. In the beginning he is a clean cut plumber, at the end he's got long scraggly (is that a word?) hair and his clothes actually make you think he lives underground scavenging clothes. Sorry, I guess I'm getting a little too indepth. All in all it's a fun and enjoyable experience. I beat it within a week.

Surprisingly great game at a budget price!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I usually am a game snob, I only get into the "big blockbuster" games that are the best of the best, things like Splinter Cell, Halo, etc...but at Freedom Fighters new sub-20 dollar price, I decided to give it a try while waiting for Shellshock to release - and I am glad I did!
Another reviewer was right, this game could be called Red Dawn. The premise is that the Russians have invaded New York, and you decide to start kicking butt and taking names. I won't go into the story, but in between game play is a highly entertaining story going on, that adds a lot to the gameplay.
The variety of weapons, and the quest to gain "charisma" so you can have more troops with you, is very cool. The controls take some getting used to, but once you have played for a few hours they became a real pleasure (i play with the "big" xbox controller). Great fighting, non-stop (really!) action, and since you don't get a ton of troops helping you until later in the game it just keeps getting better.
One thing that most surprised me was the great music and really good graphics. The music is perfect for this game, just the right amount of Russian music and it really blends into the game well. The graphics are nice, too. Even when fighting DOZENS of Russians with 12 troops of my own the frame rate never stuttered.

Overall, I give it 5 stars because of the price now and the FUN factor! If it was 50 bucks I would probably give it a 3.75 stars, but at 20 bucks or less pick it up if you enjoy shooters/military games/or love the movie Red Dawn and watched it relentlessly as a kid like I did! A nice surprise for the Xbox!

freedom fighters

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: April 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

its the best game and if you dont like that is not cool. this game has great features and great graphics.

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i picked this game up because my friend said he rented it and it was good. i bought it for only 19.99 and this game was impressive. it was fun the entire game and i never got tired of playing it. great graphics great story line and non stop action. i highly recommend getting this game espicially if you like military type games because its like walking in the shoes of iraqis cause you get to see what it would be like being an american and having your country occupied by a foriegn country. 5 stars

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.

One of the most underated games of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Just about everything that freedom fighters does in does right. From the exciting story to the suberb gameplay and some of the best music to ever grace a game. First of all Freedom Fighters is underated and underappriciated. It didn't sell that well and that it a terrible shame because this is a game that should be experianced by all. I mean your hooked from the start and it just gets better and better. First of all the squad controls are excellant and easy to use no matter how many soldiers you have and eventually you'll have 12 soldiers under your command. Your squadmates are very intelligent, along with the enemy soldiers, exhibit some of the most impressive a.i. seen in game. The 3rd person shooting is handled well and the aiming system does take getting used to but eventually becomes simple enough. The graphics are very solid and the environments are all suberb and varied throughout the game. The character models are solid and the included ragdoll physics are again some of the best to grace a videogame. The weapon selection is a little lacking but not to big an issue. The music is absolutely suberb and always manages to keep you entralled in the game. From start to finish Freedom Fighters is a blast and easily one to keep playing. There is a multiplayer but it has only one mode that is fun but there simly needed to be more modes to play with. It sucks that it got low sales and that hurts the chances for a much needed sequel. But if ever a game deserved a sequel Freedom Fighters would be it. So if you have not played freedom fighters, do yourself a favor go pick it up, you won't regret, and hell it only costs like 10$ so what have you got to lose?

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!

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