Pass this one up
I had high hopes for this title, especially as I really liked the first 2 titles in this series. Unfortunately it falls short. Here's why:
- Graphics are cartoonish and not up to current FPS standards. There is little changed since the first title. Basically 2001 level graphics.
- The player is limited in his actions; you cannot jump, crawl, etc. Also, you cannot climb through windows, or even over/onto the smallest of objects. You can leap over small walls, but that is the extent of the player's abilities. You cannot run through a floor to ceiling broken out window, you still have to find an open door to go through. Call of Duty is better.
- The controls system is 'clunky'. The commands to do many of the actions do not roll off the fingertips. Many times I found myself having to look at the controller to remember what to do, or worse, having to pause the game. Also, I found many times I had to click a button more than once to get the character to do an action. This means the interface/response is poor. COD, Ghost Recon, Bad Company are all better.
- The game is 'buggy'. During one battle, one of my fireteams completely 'disappeared' from the screen. When I gave them a command, I could see the shadows on screen move like they were still in the battle, but the actual men were gone, all that was left were shadows. They would not shoot, just the shadows would move back and forth. I had to completely quit and restart to fix the problem. Unacceptable!
- The player cannot always see what the character is aiming or shooting at. While the character may have a line of sight, the player is blocked from seeing what the character sees and thus is shooting blindly at open targets.
- The multi-player game is very buggy and tempermental. I do not expect many people to play multi-player given the problems with the game.
- A player cannot skip through the cut-scenes. Some are very long and you must watch them completely each time, every time.
- The grenade system is not very good. Even throwing multiple grenades, the character will not toss them where you want them to go. Ghost Recon has a better system.
- The game claims terrain is interactive and destructible, but actually only a very small part is destructible. I found windows that would not break, none of the doors can be opened, nothing can be climbed onto, etc. Bad Company is much better.
- The story starts out well, and then gets 'dull' and then down-right poor. My first time through I was really wanting to skip the scenes, it got that bad.
- Unlike previous titles, you cannot always get your teams to go or do what you want; even multiple attempts result in 'unavailable' notices, to the point where I started to say "oh heck, I'll just go do it myself." This is NOT what fireteam battles are about.
- Overall, poor game. Rent it, or if you gotta have it, buy it on Ebay and then sell it quick before you lose a lot of money. Definately do not buy at full price.Read full review
