To all those mutiplayer lovers, I'm writing this review entirely based on the single player. Multiplayer fans look elsewhere. First the good. This game has excellent visuals on par with any game of it's size and scope. The story also doesn't fail to disappoint. An intricate timely story follows the lives of two elite soldiers, complete with terrorists, nuclear weapons and many other excellently simulated modern weapons. Now the bad. If you like rainbow six, this game will be frustrating. While the weapons seem accurately modeled, the enemy unfortunately is not. There is an excellent AI that will toss maddening amounts of grenades and fire from cover. Unfortunately it also cheats. Endless streams of enemies will attack you until you physically occupy unknown areas. For example, there is a scene where you must assault two buildings separated by a road. Enemies will continue to respawn and occupy areas you cleared from far away, until you enter the first of the buildings. Enemies will continue to spawn in the other building after you kill them until you occupy that building as well. In other words sniping and tossing grenades at enemies 50 yards away is nearly useless. To advance in this game you must run from one position to another and kill your enemy at point blank range. This keeps the action frantic and fast paced, but also sucks out all strategy and realism this game could have commanded. The game is also highly dependent on scripted events. It often seems like you are running from one ambush to the next. Sometimes the game will allow you to kill enemies from 50 yards away. As you approach where they were however, more often than not another ten enemies will pop up and ambush you. All of this ensures frantic exciting gameplay, but makes Halo seem realistic in comparison. In short this is a great shooter, but you must play by its rules.
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