Masterpiece of epic proportions
The game itself is very easy to pickup, being an ordinary thrid person shooter, but soon enough, the third person shooter turns into a tactical squad based shooter. As you progress through the game, you earn charisma for doing certain objectives (blowing up the enemies helipads, healing the sick etc.). As you accumulate charisma, more and more freedom fighters can join your squad. You can have a maximum of twelve squad mates, which turns your squad into more of a miniature army. The squad itself can never die as long as you're alive. You can use medpaks on your squadmates to bring them back to life.
The game sports excellent graphics that truly captures the mood of the dark surroundings. Epic locations makes the levels anything but repitive, and the level design leaves gameplay styles open. You can run in guns blazing, or stalk your targets and go stealthy.
Apart from the excellent graphics is an extradoinary soundtrack. Jesper Kyd manages yet again to perfectly capture the true emotion of the game. Epic musical scores reflect the action on screen, and make you feel that you really are fighting for your freedom. The general sound is excellent as well, with the Russian troops speaking in authentic Russian accents, guns sounding pleasingly loud, and the ambiance transporting you to the location. The only problem that I could come up with is that the Russians speak english rather than russian.
Freedom Fighters is one of the few games that changes the direction of where games go. An epic masterpiece that should be experianced by all gamers.