An utterly amazing gaming experience everywhere from the singleplayer down to the multiplayer.

User Rating: 9.4 | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 X360
By 70x7 | Review Date:
The game is just great. The singleplayer is dramatic when it needs to be, and pure adrenaline every other second. It gives you a realistic storyline, and futuristic gadgets you could actually see being used in the future battlefields. You can find all of that in the first one, but what you can't find is the small things they did to improve the gameplay from the first one. They took a lot of the tricks from Rainbow Six Vegas, like the easy to use squad control, and the taking cover. The graphics are tweaked and more importantly more optimized, with better performance all around. The over-the-shoulder derived from some of the popular games like Gears of War, as well as its predecessor, Ghost Recon 2, is a nice touch. The new gadgetry is well done, and suprisingly doesn't feel overdone. They added a few new vehicle control features other than just the UAV. All of them so far have been just as helpful in their own way, and implemented in a very stylish fashion, as to not damage the integrity of the gameplay by jampacking the game with un-needed features.

The multiplayer is very nice, especially if you are comparing it to the other options you have when choosing a shooter on XBOX360 to play online. It throws in just enough tactics by giving you nearly perfect maps. While there are a few dudds in the lineup, the maps they have given you to play on are generally well crafted, and made to utilize squad movement and tactics like flanking and decoy fire. You'll find the best gaming experience in the Ranked matches, as most of the player matches are filled with people with 2-3 people playing on the same xbox, and its restrictions are pretty harsh and tends to take away from it all. I suggest staying away from "Player Matches" unless you have friends over to play with. Ranked is the way to go and you get the true MP experience from it. Everyone is a step above what you'll find in non-ranked. They give you a few features like there is a point between dying and being alive that you get shot, but not enough to kill you totally and you roll around writhing in pain, at this point your teammates can heal you back to life if they can get there in time before you bleed out, or get finished off. It's a nice feature, and the fact that you don't have to pick a medic class to be able to do this is refreshing.

All in all the game experience is more than solid, its great.

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