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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.

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.

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).

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!

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.

what happened!?! this is not ghost recon, is it?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

BLAH!! what happened to the old school versions of GHOST RECON. I bought this game first day it came out, so excited to play it. I played the very first stage, and never played it since then, It is very off topic. i dont like this game at all. I thought this game was going to turn out like every other great ghost recon made.

negative features-
there are only 2 squade members, not 5
both members have same weapons, not their own unique.
game play has very compicating controls and commands
there are few health packs.
squade member dies to easily
u have to constantly command your member
finally-its first person mode so u cant see alot of your surroudings.

posotives-
I like the fact that its online.
great graphics, sound and gameplay
---- thats about it

in this case, change is not good.

You're missing the point...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

OK, first a note to 360 enthusiasts - yes, the 360 version of the game is amazing. The Xbox version's graphics are no better than Island Thunder. Well, duh...the Xbox is still the Xbox - if they could make it emulate 360-level graphics they wouldn't have invented the 360 in the first place! So fanboys whining about how 360 is better are missing the point.

Another common gripe of GR fans is that this is not really a tactical shooter like previous installments, it's a first-person shooter with tactical elements. That's valid, but again misses the point. The Advanced Warfighter concept is that ONE soldier can coordinate and direct a variety of assets himself, from the battlefield, in real time. So the first-person shooter-type perspective reinforces this concept. And anyway, must every Ghost Recon title play EXACTLY the same? Would you really want that?

Personally, I think GRAW is a worthy addition to the GR series. Graphics are good and the sound is awesome (makes me want to purchase a home theater setup). Ubi did lots of research into the Army's Future Force program to develop Advanced Warfighter, and it shows in the level of detail they've put into the IWS. Battle is even more realistic than Island Thunder, the AIs seem more aggressive and intelligent (including your own teammates, which can be a mixed blessing, but highly realistic).

Only cons to the game are the story (which I think is fairly unrealistic and a little dumb - but hey, we don't play GR for the stories, right?) and the fact that you can't drop prone, an unforgivable oversight. Also, I think it's pretty unrealistic to have supply points conveniently scattered everywhere (and on normal and easy difficulty, these supply points fully heal your team which is nice but REALLY unrealistic). Finally, it is nice (but again, unrealistic) to have a character carry both an assault rifle AND a sniper rifle - it would have been more realistic if you found a sniper rifle on a dead soldier near a sniping target, used it, then had to drop it to continue with your regular assault rifle (or if certain missions were sniper missions and others were assault missions).

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! ?

Avoid at all costs!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Thank goodness I rented this before I bought it, talk about a complete waste of 2 hours of my life. The frame rate is horrible and overall the fun factor is not there. I tried to push through a little further praying it would get better, but it never happened. Too bad all the hard work is going into the 360 while we're getting left with this heap! What are you doing to us Ubisoft!

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