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GR Enthusiast who hates this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I paid $50 bucks for this when it came out. I took it back to get half my money on trade within a week. Ubisoft should be ashamed. The porting to X-BOX is terrible. Honestly, this game is worse than the original GR games (Island Thunder etc.). Slow, clunky, not fun. The online mission mode is limited to two players--and buggy on top of that--music not playing, lagging out, etc. This is from a guy who is a five-star and in the top 100 on both GR2 and GR2-Summit Strike. Both of those games are ten times better the this. Notice that nearly everyone who has played the other games are dissappointed with this one. It might seem okay if you don't know better, but believe me this game is terrible compared with the other GR tiles (and the Rainbow Sixes, at that). Ubisoft should pay me back the $25 I lost on it. (P.S. It is the only X-BOX game I EVER traded back. My library is around 30 titles).

Good Despite the Nay Sayers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game for Christmas and I thought, "Oh what was my wife thinking..." but I played it anyway and gave her a big... Kiss... I really like this game not only for the gameplay but the atmosphere when I turn on the surround sound. I could not stop playing. The last time I had this problem was on FarCry Instincts.

I do admit that it does get a tad repetative, all I need is an Auto Rifle, Sniper Rifle and I'm good but the story, features, and environments are great. The story really got me involved with "why" I was there, the partner AI seemed quite competent especially when given orders and lasty the sites and sounds during game play, "I can go up there and shoot?!?!?...*chunk*...BOOM!", though a little restrictive to where one can go.

just no

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

no. for the 360, this game is a brilliant masterpiece, but for xbox, just no. not gonna happen. shouldnt happen. i have it for xbox and 360 and i love it on 360 but on xbox i regret ever buying it. bad gameplay, bad graphics, and TYPOS to name just a FEW, no, LESS than a few problems with the xbox version of this game. just to many problems. JUST NO.

Not as good as the early versions..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I work in software and understand the need to improve and add enhancements. However, morphing a winning formula into something else just because the competition is doing it isn't the way to keep loyal customers who like the product because of the way it was.

The bells and whistles added to this version of the game don't enhance it much. It seems more like an arcade game now, or the old Doom or Wolfenstein shooters than the old GR we came to know and love. I guess they are following the trend to first person shooters and away from the game concepts that made the game so great in the early versions. What happened to unlocking new weapons for friend and foe alike? What happened to assigning attributes to characters? The best way to retain interest in a game is not by making it difficult.

I would not purchase this game again.

Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am not an "action game player" (hate this type of games) but this is the only one which got me! I played all series of this game and I like it very much, especially where is the first person view. I think this is the most successful version. Better graphic and more realistic. Some saying that is more difficult to play but for me this is not a challenge at all. You just need to be better that's all. Unexpectedly for me I LOVE this game!

Better than the first two

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Advanced warfighter in my opinion was better than the first two, and i will list the reasons. One, for me, i like to be able to see my weapon when i am in single player mode, in multiplayer it doesn't matter. Second, the graphics are superior than the first two, and the gameplay is just overall better. The first one, Ghost recon, was a little bloody, the second one, GR2, was better, and this one, didn't have blood splatters all over the place when you killed an enemy. The future force technology, however, was my favorite part of the game, and ultimately what won me over. The new technology in the gameplay made you feel like an elite squad of "Ghosts" with prototype technology. The gameplay was, a little unrealistic in the fact that you can take quite a few bullets before going down, but who knows what kind of body armor we'll have for the military in the future? The learning curve was huge, it took me hours to figure out how to do this, after dying a couple dozen times, but when you learn how to play it, it becomes fun when you have everything figured out. I would definitely recommend this over the Playstation version even though i'm a die-hard Sony fan. Graphics are better, multiplayer, and more features make for better gameplay.

Is NOT an improvment over the previous titles

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I noticed that every Ghost Recon game is practically a completely new game, and although Advanced Warfighter is based on the same basis as the previous versions, this one has has several marked differences. For instance, the controls are very different, also the way you control your team is different. I liked and enjoy the gameplay very much, but that wasn't enough for me to like it overall. Actually, the game is excellent when playing alone in your Xbox, but playing on Xbox Live! is another story.

The graphics are good, but not as good as they should have been for a trilogy of games that have been on the same console (xbox) for a very long time. Everybody knows that when a new console comes out, the games aren't that good because the developers don't know the hardware/software very well yet, but they improve their versions with time. The original Xbox is now an old console and Ghost Recond 3 should have been a very big improvement over Desert Siege, Island Thunder, Jungle Storm, Summit Strike... When playing online you and your teammates move like a fixed bitmap. But, for me, the worst thing that I found with Advanced Warfighter are the awfully long loading times.

Let me tell you how it is how you play a new game with a friend on Xbox Live! First, you select Create Game, then choose the type of game: If you want to play cooperatively, you have only 2 options: a Combat, or a Mission. Forget about respawns, they don't exist anymore. Say you choose to play a Mission, wich you have to have finished before by playing the game on solo mode. You select from the opened available missions, just one (you don't have map rotation or anything else, the one you select is the one you will play). Then wait for an eternity for the map to load. Then the game goes to pause mode and you have to invite your friend to play with you. He/She accept the invitation and have also to wait for another eternity for his/her game to load. Ok, now you both are in the same screen and you may begin chosing your weapons for this mission and go play, but first, you have to wait, again for another eternity, for the game to load for both of you. Finally your playing, and lets imagine the following three scenarios: in the middle of the game your friend dies and the he says "hey, start it over, please, ok?". Or, you both die in the middle of a battle, or you both finish the game succesfully. Either way, the only option available next is to select "Leave game", and that means exactly that: you leave the game!

For the both of you to play again, the same map or whatever, you have to do all over again from the very begining: load the game, select the map, wait for the map to load, invite your friend, wait for your friend to accept invitation, wait for your friend to finish loading his/her game, select your weapons, start the mission, wait for the mission loads for the both of you, and then play. And you have to do that every time, there isn't a room where everybody can wait for more players, to chat, to select missions, combat styles, weapons, difficulty, etc. When one dies, he/she can still speak with the other player(s) (this is a good difference between this game and the other versions), but that is because the dead player can't go anywhere but out of the game, there is no room to return to.

At least I grew tired of this pretty quick, so I just play this game on solo and for now I play Conflict Global Terror online, at least until a new good game comes out. Oh, and I have my 360 console, but since I don't have friends who have one I didn't buy the 360 version of GR3 and when for the original, but now I think I should have bought the 360 version since I will be playing this game just on solo.

Could have been great...but turned out wrong

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is a military squad based shooter that has been released on many platforms. Unlike the previous editions, Ghost Recon 2 and GR2: Summit Strike, this game (for the Xbox) is played entirely in first person, with the gun in view. I always like Ghost Recon as a first person shooter, like the original game and Island Thunder, so this was a plus for me. A lot of people, however, probably would have loved another GR game with the over the shoulder view, like seen in the Xbox 360 version. Personally, I have not been the biggest fan of the OTS view in GR games, but in terms of GRAW, I find it to work a lot better than the first person gun view seen in the Xbox version. I'm not sure why they chose to have this view, considering the OTS view was in Ghost Recon 2 and Summit Strike, but this was the first of many other mistakes made in the making of this game.

Another very noticeable detail that is far behind compared to the Xbox 360 version is the graphics. I mean, obviously they are going to be worse, we are comparing an Xbox 360 game to one on the Xbox. Even so, they seem pretty bad for the Xbox itself. The game seems like it tries to be as good as the Xbox 360 version, but fails miserably. Instead of trying to use the Xbox to the fullest, this game almost feels like a bad port, even though the gameplay is way different. I mean, there is like a nice haze and lighting effects in the Xbox 360 version of the game, and in this version, they try to create this so hard, but it comes off very strange. There is like this weird orange glow in the Xbox version. Other than that, the textures are off, not horrendous, but nothing special. The environments seem repetitive and graphically speaking are only as good if not worse than GR2. The AI in the game seems very "blah." At some points in the game, they are very good and almost mimic "real like" situations. Most of the time, however, they seem to run into the bullets. One thing that is bad, but kind of good at the same time is that you only have 1 other soldier to help you along the way, instead of the 3 you get in the Xbox 360 version. I like this in the sense that it's easier to control only one, but at the same time it makes for a weaker "ghost recon" experience.

There is also a multiplayer portion of the game to keep players busy months into the future. There is a wide variety of maps and weapons to choose from while playing over Xbox Live and makes for an enjoyable experience. You can have 12 people in a game together at once which is a good number for this type of game. There is also a co-op mode for yourself and one other player to play the campaign mission together online.

Overall, this game is good and bad at the same time, with a higher portion leaning on the bad side. There are things I liked, things I didn't like, and it was just an "ok" gaming experience. Obviously the Xbox 360 version of the game is better, and because of this it makes this game even worse. Because of this, if you are only looking for a single player experience, I would not recommend this game. If you have Xbox Live and have liked Ghost Recon online in the past, you may want to look into picking this up. If you have the choice between this and the Xbox 360 version, however...you know which one to buy! ?

KRAP DESCRIBES THIS GAME!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: March 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

UNLESS you have got an XBox 360-I reccomend that you DO NOT buy this game.
Its choppy in visuals compared to the XB360 version,You do NOT have 3rd Person View in this version(more specifically Over The Shoulder View) just FPV(not as bad as the FPV in GR1-You can see the gun in this one).
If you Only own an XBox(or even PS2) get Full Spectrum Warrior:10 Hammers when it comes out-Just avoid GRAW for XB and otehr this-gen consoles.

GRAW is just crap on XBox,
But it WON`T be the worst believe it or not the PS2 version will suck even more hell!

Here is the way i reccomend all GRAW ports:

XBox 360=BEST one available-9/10
XBox=rubbish slim compared to the 360 version-5.5/10
PS2=WILL BE worse than even the XB version=4/10
GameCube=Worse than XB version but maybe not as bad as PS2 version-5/10.

So XBox(and PS2) ownersAVOID this game its sh*te-But get Full Spectrum Warrior:10 Hammers.
XBox 360 owner?GET GRAW its the best on 360 yet.

So listen to the reviews and steer-clear of the XBox game called "Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter" but do get the XBox game called "Full Spectrum Warrior:Ten Hammers".
Stick with Ghost Recon,GRIT,GR2 and GR2:Summit Strike if you are a GR collector.(on XBOX)

Oh the shattered dreams of what could have been a great game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Let me quantify the situation this game came into: My friends and I (any where from 3 to 16 people sometimes, most times there are 8 of us) get together at least once a week to play Halo, Halo 2 and Ghost Recon 2 (mostly Summit Strike). This week, two of our friends had copies of Ghost Recon 3, and we were prepared to be amazed.

Well, we were. By the absolute lack of any good multiplayer. There is no split screen Missions beyond the 2 player cooperative missions (which I'll get to later). When we tried to create an adversarial game, the primary Xbox allowed only one player to join and the other stayed at the loading screen for about 8 minutes. Unless we did something wrong, it seems like the only way to do a 7 player multiplayer game is to have 7 xboxes, 7 tvs, and 7 copies of the game. So we went back to GR2, and it was good.

Later, after everyone had left "Oh, it's 3 am, we need sleep", two of us stayed up and played an hour and a half of the co-op game.

First off, the game looks great. They have really gotten a lot out of the Xbox and I bet its amazing on the 360. The "HUD" style display is easily read, and makes it easy to react to enemies. The voices and ambient sounds are good as well.

Controls, while slightly different from previous versions and clunky at first, soon were easily learned. One realistic addition is the shake. As in real life, no one can hold their gun perfectly still, espcially while firing. But with the sniper rifle, just hold L3 and you will hold your breath, steadying your hand for a stealthy kill or two.

Unfortunately, you cannot choose your weapons, at least on Co-op mode. But, you do have two primary weapons to choose from, a gunner and a sharpshooter. Also, you have grenades and the oft under-utilized pistol.

So in conclusion, will I play this game again? Maybe. Definately maybe. Will I BUY it? No. Not at all.

Oh, and for all of you aspiring demolitionists out there, here's a hint: When you have to (or want to) blow up a vehicle, you will usually need 2 frag grenades. And once the 2nd explosion goes off, don't stand too close to admire the fire... the vehicles don't explode until roughly 15-20 seconds go by.

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