11-18-2006, 11:11 PM
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter Review
By RealLuck
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter is a game with both strong single player and multiplayer game modes. With the best campaign yet to be seen on the 360, and some of the most beautiful graphics ever seen on a console, Ghost Recon made a huge impact when it hit store shelves, making the Xbox 360 an even better system.
Let’s begin with the single player campaign. During the campaign, you will be traveling through a war-torn Mexico in the year 2013. You, Captain Scott Mitchell, and your squad of special ops ghosts must complete outrageous tasks with limited men and supplies. Are you up for the challenge? If you said, “Yes,” then this game is for you.
Throughout the game, you and your small band of soldiers are involved in an array of different tasks, from saving the Mexican President to saving the U.S. President. In these tasks you will notice a small box at the top of your screen. This little box is your cross-com. You’ll find that throughout the campaign, this little box is the most important ally you have. Your cross-com puts you in control of your troops and any support you may receive, such as tanks, helicopters, and enemy detection devices. A wise user of their cross-com will come to find that the campaign is a lot easier. Since you will go down in a couple of shots, use your cross-com thoroughly and frequently to avoid death and defeat the Mexican Rebels.
A new, revolutionary feature of GR: AW is its no loading screens. Instead of showing you a long loading screen after a mission, you will instead hop into an extraction vehicle and go on to the next level. Occasionally, someone will tell you, “Get in the chopper!” where you will then man a turret and shoot enemies from the “chopper”.
One of the best features of the campaign is the wide variety of weapons you can choose from. You can pick up a grenade launcher, rocket launcher, or camera gun from a rally point. If you’re lucky, you will have a chance to pick up a sniper rifle that can shoot through thin walls, which will make you even more deadly. With this wide variety of weapons, you can destroy anything and everything on any map; however you want to, making GR: AW’s campaign even more enjoyable.
GR: AW, being a third person shooter, may be a little different to you at first, but you will eventually catch on to its controls. Switching weapons will be a little weird, at first and may get you killed a few times, but after a few good butt whoopings, you’ll be used to the controls and be ready to whip some butt, yourself. So, you think you’re good, because you beat the campaign? How about you try a little bit of Xbox Live?
Online play for GR: AW is very solid, but a little challenging. First, you will be able to customize your Warfighter however you like in the character creation before you play your first multiplayer game. You can make your character look like anything from Rambo to Ryu Hayabusa, whatever suits you. On Xbox Live, you can play a vast array of games like Elimination, Territories, Objective, and even an online campaign with up to 16 friends. The online campaign greatly boosts the hours of fun online you will spend trying to defeat the entire campaign. The online campaign consists of a couple of missions on very large maps, where you will once again team up with a team of ghosts to take on some more Mexican rebels, this time, you can communicate with your troops. You still will not receive any support, except your enemy detection device, which will be used a lot to spot the hundreds of enemies spread across the maps. With the completion of each online campaign level, you will unlock a few points towards your gamerscore.
The difficult online play consists in the games like Elimination, Objective, and Territories. In these modes, you will be allowed the same amount of support as the online campaign. In Elimination, you must kill any opposing forces. The first team to reach the points limit or the team with the highest score when the time runs out, wins. In Territories, you must defend a territory from your enemy for as long as possible. The team with the most accumulated time at the end of the set amount of rounds, wins. In Objective, the hardest if the multiplayer modes, you must complete a task without alerting any enemies. You can either wipe out every enemy, or go stealthily around them, your choice. In each of those three modes, there are many variations you can make, such as the number of respawns and the type of guns used. All three of those modes have both ranked and unranked matches. With the new update of the TrueSkill system, teams are generally balanced when it comes to ranked matches, making play close and challenging.
GR: AW is overall, one of the best games out for the Xbox 360. With an excellent campaign and solid multiplayer, GR: AW is a must buy for any gamer.
By RealLuck
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter is a game with both strong single player and multiplayer game modes. With the best campaign yet to be seen on the 360, and some of the most beautiful graphics ever seen on a console, Ghost Recon made a huge impact when it hit store shelves, making the Xbox 360 an even better system.
Let’s begin with the single player campaign. During the campaign, you will be traveling through a war-torn Mexico in the year 2013. You, Captain Scott Mitchell, and your squad of special ops ghosts must complete outrageous tasks with limited men and supplies. Are you up for the challenge? If you said, “Yes,” then this game is for you.
Throughout the game, you and your small band of soldiers are involved in an array of different tasks, from saving the Mexican President to saving the U.S. President. In these tasks you will notice a small box at the top of your screen. This little box is your cross-com. You’ll find that throughout the campaign, this little box is the most important ally you have. Your cross-com puts you in control of your troops and any support you may receive, such as tanks, helicopters, and enemy detection devices. A wise user of their cross-com will come to find that the campaign is a lot easier. Since you will go down in a couple of shots, use your cross-com thoroughly and frequently to avoid death and defeat the Mexican Rebels.
A new, revolutionary feature of GR: AW is its no loading screens. Instead of showing you a long loading screen after a mission, you will instead hop into an extraction vehicle and go on to the next level. Occasionally, someone will tell you, “Get in the chopper!” where you will then man a turret and shoot enemies from the “chopper”.
One of the best features of the campaign is the wide variety of weapons you can choose from. You can pick up a grenade launcher, rocket launcher, or camera gun from a rally point. If you’re lucky, you will have a chance to pick up a sniper rifle that can shoot through thin walls, which will make you even more deadly. With this wide variety of weapons, you can destroy anything and everything on any map; however you want to, making GR: AW’s campaign even more enjoyable.
GR: AW, being a third person shooter, may be a little different to you at first, but you will eventually catch on to its controls. Switching weapons will be a little weird, at first and may get you killed a few times, but after a few good butt whoopings, you’ll be used to the controls and be ready to whip some butt, yourself. So, you think you’re good, because you beat the campaign? How about you try a little bit of Xbox Live?
Online play for GR: AW is very solid, but a little challenging. First, you will be able to customize your Warfighter however you like in the character creation before you play your first multiplayer game. You can make your character look like anything from Rambo to Ryu Hayabusa, whatever suits you. On Xbox Live, you can play a vast array of games like Elimination, Territories, Objective, and even an online campaign with up to 16 friends. The online campaign greatly boosts the hours of fun online you will spend trying to defeat the entire campaign. The online campaign consists of a couple of missions on very large maps, where you will once again team up with a team of ghosts to take on some more Mexican rebels, this time, you can communicate with your troops. You still will not receive any support, except your enemy detection device, which will be used a lot to spot the hundreds of enemies spread across the maps. With the completion of each online campaign level, you will unlock a few points towards your gamerscore.
The difficult online play consists in the games like Elimination, Objective, and Territories. In these modes, you will be allowed the same amount of support as the online campaign. In Elimination, you must kill any opposing forces. The first team to reach the points limit or the team with the highest score when the time runs out, wins. In Territories, you must defend a territory from your enemy for as long as possible. The team with the most accumulated time at the end of the set amount of rounds, wins. In Objective, the hardest if the multiplayer modes, you must complete a task without alerting any enemies. You can either wipe out every enemy, or go stealthily around them, your choice. In each of those three modes, there are many variations you can make, such as the number of respawns and the type of guns used. All three of those modes have both ranked and unranked matches. With the new update of the TrueSkill system, teams are generally balanced when it comes to ranked matches, making play close and challenging.
GR: AW is overall, one of the best games out for the Xbox 360. With an excellent campaign and solid multiplayer, GR: AW is a must buy for any gamer.