Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 Comments by Kristan Reed
Give the people what they want.
Want to comment on this article? Log in, or register!
Poster
|
MoGamer2006
09/03/07 @ 14:09
0
"Short on new ideas, but big on polishing what we know and love"
Sounds like every game in the whole Xbox 360 library... |
|
0
Lol, we harrass EG for a GRAW review and they make us wait and give it 7/10 to a public uprising.
They get the GRAW2 review out on time with a 8/10 of none of us really care :P EDIT: Thanks krudster, the old memory isn't so great these days... /heroes
Edited 1 times,
most recently on 09/03/07 @ 14:38
|
|
0
From what I've seen of the full game (tutorial + 1st mission, lonely multiplayer), I agree with the score; the graphics are nicely upgraded in many subtle ways that help "sell" the illusion quite a bit better than GRAW1 did.
Looking forward to sniping the usual suspects... :D *Edited* Sorry about that, and thanks for pointing it out.
Edited 1 times,
most recently on 09/03/07 @ 14:28
|
|
kissthestick
09/03/07 @ 14:28
0
"Short on new ideas, but big on polishing what we know and love"
Sounds like every game in the whole Xbox 360 library... lol |
|
0
i think this is a great game, no glitches :) co-op in multiple ways a good team and online capabilitys. so we all know what graw is, we also all know what fifa, burnout, NFS, UT and others are like. this is a realy good (the benchmark game for me) in it's genre. i really loved it on the original xbox. the missle silo mission was a bit to hard for me though
the only thing i would like to see more on 360 are more playfull games, like viva pin, but i guess those will come. |
|
Paulanator
09/03/07 @ 14:59
0
I'll have to place this game on the 'to buy when cheaper pile'. As good as it looks, I don't think it justifies a full game price tag. Maybe at £20-25 I'll pick it up.
In the meanwhile, I'm 45 hours into Okami and loving every minute. |
|
0
Probably the weirdest thing about GRAW2 is the right-shoulder-button camera option.
When you view your team-mates' camera, you actually do see your team mates, meaning the camera must be hovering several feet above them, though you can't see it. Considering the lengths the game goes to in order to explain all the not-too-distant-future war tech in the game, that seems like a weird decision. Aiming is also quite difficult in that team-mate-camera mode. Also, why can you only view what the drone is seeing when it is descending to lower altitudes? Or is there a way to control it more fully? |
|
MrFlintBlackman
09/03/07 @ 15:38
0
Why are war games so fucking brown and grey!?
Even the characters look brown and grey, Long time players on this shit would have their eyes melted off if they ever played Okami. |
|
Carrybagma
09/03/07 @ 15:55
0
@mkreku: Given their supposed policy of rewarding innovation, getting one more point than last time around for a v.2 is pretty good.
|
|
0
"Night vision, as well, has been completely overhauled ... it gives you an instant advantage in the dark and makes the darker portions of the game thoroughly enjoyable."
Thank God for that. I recently completely GRAW1 and for me the night vision sections in that were the worst in the game by far. Using night vision is supposed to give you an advantage and empower the player while hapless enemies stumbled around in the dark getting picked off. Yet in GRAW1 I'd be creeping around in the shadows with night vision enabled yet STILL be getting fired at enemies before I could even see them. Clearly the AI troops had 'radar vision' or some other lame cheat method. :( That bloody "Mayday! Mayday!" mission which takes place at night without any soldiers helping out took me absolutely forever. Play for 20 minutes, get killed by someone out of my night vision range, get respawned about a mile back, repeat. :( If the night vision is much improved in GRAW2 I may well pick this up at the weekend. |
|
quantumsheep
09/03/07 @ 16:17
0
Took back a couple of old DS games to GAME and got this for four british pounds.
Awesome =) |
|
0
The fact that the demos of GRAW 2 where so similar to the last game, a game I felt was disappointing and overrated, is the reason I decided not to buy this "sequel".
I much preferred the two Ghost Recon 2 games on the Xbox to be honest and felt the only things the new game had to offer was poorer A.I., teammates that you could literally walk through (well they are Ghosts!), v-sync tearing and prettier graphics. The multiplayer is pretty much the same as the last game and not a patch on the single player graphically or control wise. |
|
0
Ghost Recon has mainly become a console franchise, live with it. I bet the PC port will be sluggish and unoptimised like the R6V one. Ubisoft is giving PC gamers the finger.
What I detest the most about GRAW (and games of its ilk) is the lack of variety, samey environments and boring objectives.
Edited 1 times,
most recently on 09/03/07 @ 16:39
|
|
0
How come GRAW doesn't have a first person view with a gun anyway? I mean the gun detail is already there as evidenced by the close up over the shoulder view so how difficult would it have been to have simply changed to viewpoint to include the gun? Let's face it with the game not having to draw your character, the gun would surely use less or the same amount of polygons anyway? Couldn't the view have been optional, after all the PC version has it?
I find the gunless first person view odd even though it's probably realistic but as we all know realistic doesn't always work in a game. |
|
kangarootoo
09/03/07 @ 17:10
0
I never really liked the first person game engine of GRAW. I thought the multiplayer one was much better. Is GRAW 2 based on two different engines as before?
|
Want to comment on this article? Log in, or register!
Advertisement
