Better than Graw, perhaps the best in the series, so far.
What I did enjoy about this game more than the first are the small details; for example, you wear the new ACU, and thus the game feel very contemporary; the action in the game feels more intense as you find yourself in multiple heavy engagements not only with your own unit, but also having the ability to control tanks, choppers, and other infantry units all at the same time. Hence, the game can get extremely complex along with multiple enemies firing at you. For me, I found this to be highly enjoyable and much more action packed than I got from the original GRAW. Other improvements have already been said by other reviewers such as a greater control and position of your UAV and unit. The crosscom for example can now be viewed through one of your Ghost. This is fun and enjoyable since you can position your soldier exactly where you want them in order to set up a good position to engage your target. The ability to draw your enemy fire as you flank is incredibly helpful. The controls of the game actually went back to the Xbox GR2 and SS series games. Thus, when you want to change weapons you get option much like you did in GR2 and SS. It all feels very familiar, but at the same time feels entirely new. You also get to choose from new weaponry; for example, you got to use the M468, which does exist, and could be a potential replacement of the m16/M4 series of weapons; with that being said, I wanted to see the HK416 in there as well, but it wasn't.
Did I mention this game is action packed? There will be times when, for instance, when you're shooting out of your Blackhawk, enemy convoys will be blowing up, and you call in an air strike; there will be times when you blow up an enemy tank with an air strike, and it goes without saying that it looks absolutely amazing. There was a few times when I said, "holy sh*t. Without a doubt, despite the short campaign, the game is worth a buy, and really I don't find the short campaign to be a factor in the game overall. It's not as short as people say, and in all honesty I think I spent probably about 7 or 8 hours playing; mind you, I don't sit for long periods and play right through, and I take my time to figure out what I'm doing. The game also seem to incorporate something the other games haven't seem to accomplish: suspense. The game very much feels, mostly because of the music playing at important parts, like what you are coming up to is either important or will be difficult.
One major difference in this game, and something I didn't like was the medic. I didn't screw around the controls enough really to care to see if I could change the amount of med kits, but you get something like six med kits per mission. This is more than enough not only for you, but for your team mates as well. I found this to make the game easy for the most part and gave the game that lack of "realism" to where you could only get shot once maybe twice. You could be red, and get patched up and your health meter would be green again. I didn't like that and took away from the game than anything else. Perhaps I'm too old fashion.
At the end, you finally get to learn something about Scott; this is nice since if you're a long time fan, you've grown to love Scott. I know its just a "video game", but if every military personal in every branch of military service acted like Scott Mitchell, then (being an American), I don't think anybody could bad mouth the military. In sum, I found this game to be highly enjoyable, and in fact the fun factor, suspense, and improvements on your crosscom and UAV surpasses GRAW, and probably every other GR game; that's just not an off the cuff remark either; I'm a long time fan, and I love all the games – I just think this one is the best, despite it being "short".