Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is an ultrarealistic war game you won't grow tired of in the first time.
The Campaign is superb. You are, of course after a small exercise level, directly thrown into the battle and looking for some military technology. Suddenly you have to abort because the “thieves” are fleeing. It is fun and become more realistic when these small twists shows up. Another of these twists I liked was when I escorted the Mexican President to an embassy which was supposed to be safe, and suddenly I’ll have to defend it against troops and tanks. The missions are realistic and varying so you never grow bored on them. But they are not so varying that the story becomes unclear and you can always feel that you are following a red line throughout the entire story.
There are two difficult settings, Normal and Hard. In the Normal mode your enemies are good at aiming, but not excellent. If you should got hit, most of the time it doesn't matter because you can take some hits without dying. But in Hard mode it’s different. They are far more accurate and if you got hit, it’s an instant kill, which sometimes can become a bit frustrating. So when playing on this difficult setting it’s important to take it easy.
Your allies are intelligent and you can choose if they shall interact only if they are attacked or if they shall open fire when they see an enemy. If they are attacked they throw themselves to the ground and fire back on the enemy. It is also very fun to take command over vehicles like a tank or helicopter.
The enemies are smart and take cover behind walls and other objects. They are not so hard to kill, most of the times three or four bullets is enough.
There are a lot weapons in the game. But in the campaign you can only choose between approximately six or seven. Some levels have other weapons to choose between, but I think that the weapon you choose will be the standard assault rifle MR-C. My favorite weapon is the AS50 Sniper Rifle, which can be chosen on some levels
The multiplayer is also nice and the ability to play co-op with up to 15 other player against computer controlled enemies is wonderful. The more people in the co-op game the more enemies, which is fortunate because otherwise it would have been too easy. In multiplayer, you’re designing your character and can choose if he should be a marksman (which I am), grenadier, rifleman or gunner. They have all different abilities which I think is good. When starting a multiplayer match you start with a menu where you can chose you favorite weapon and then it is time to start shooting enemies.
The graphics is very beautiful, but sometimes it starts to lag (I don’t know if it’s my Xbox 360 who are trying to play with me) and today the whole screen became green-foggy-smoke and I got killed but it disappeared when I restarted. But except from that, the graphics is very, very good.
The sound is superb. It really feels like you’re in the middle of a battle when the helicopters are shooting missiles over you head, and the explosions are really loud. Everything, from the pistol to the explosions sounds really realistic.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is definitely worth buying if you like modern war/shooting games.