This game is easily the best looking and realistic shooter I've ever played
You will be able to command units to move, attack, help wounded soldiers out or regroup simply by using the "+"-pads up and down controls dependly on what you're facing. If you're facing a infantry unit you can send your other Ghost team-mates to take it down for you but you'll probably try to keep them as covered as you might and save them for the more armored targets. Not only will you be leading your other Ghost soldiers but also different vechicles throughout the game, tho you will not manueer those vechicles but only give them waypoints where to go/attack. A shorter list of such vechicles would be everything from M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vechicle System (APC) to M1A1 Abram Main Battle Tank and Apache AH-46D Longbow all with beatiful and realistic design, weapon effect and ofcourse simply amazing sounds. And you'll be leading those units just as simple as the infantry units but they will have a more limited erea of service due to terrain and blocks or whatever might be blocking their way (if ground vechicles, obviously the airborne vechicles will not be effected of what's on the ground)
The general controls of controlling, aiming might be a little ackward at first if you're used to other shooters for the Xbox series like Halo, Perfect Dark Zero but when you've got the ideas of the game it's no problem, it only takes a little time to get used to. You will often be needed to use cover and to do so you simply walk towards a wall or a static vehicle and when you're close enough the charather will hude behind it, and to look up from the cover is done with the analog sticks which makes it possible to peek out just enough to tell where the enemies is if the cross-com system haven't located them for you already. And from the cover you can just lean out of it, aim and shoot when using the Left and Right Trigger and the aim the scope you'll press the right analog stick one or two times depending on how much you'd like to zoom.
When moving you can run, crouch and crawl. You can change positions quickly and effectivly from running to crawling or crouching by pressing the Right Analog Stick in different ways, if you press it a little harder and you're running your charather will jump down to crawling position and effectivly hide behind cover.
There's alot of graphical details in the game, really nice shading details and glossing details on cars and windows and such. But the thing that I haven't seen before is that if you're looking down on the ground and it's a bit dark you'll be "blinded" by the light in the sky making the ground all dark... I make it really hard for you people to understand what I'm trying to tell you, I don't know any proper words to describe it with - anyways, it's a real amazing effect however. And the graphics in general is very polished, worked through and sharp, making it the best looking Xbox360 game to date and I can't come up with any as nice looking on the PC.
The voice-acting is most often really nice as well, feels pretty natural but the voices for the orders your charather is giving such as "Take the shot" and such is feeling really bad becuase the sound quality feels drained and the voice at all is not fitting into the games general worked look, just as the responses upon that which is even worse. But you'll get used to it, it comes very natural after a couple of hours of gameplay if you are as whiny as me about it.
It's also realistic in that point you will not survive without your teammates which always got your back, and if you're trying to run towards a enemy in classic "Run and Gun" style you won't last more than just seconds, two or three shots and you're out of buisness. But you will always have someone to keep your back, if your teammates would be wounded badly you'll have about 30-40 secondes to treat them or send another teammate to do so, it sounds easy but you got the clear the erea before thinking the idea of doing so.
This game is probably to recommend to all Xbox360 owners that plays alone on one system. Becuase the split-screen modes is horrible, laggy and is turned into First-Person View just as in SWAT 3, it would be fair if they kept the Third Person view into the Split-Screen modes as well but... No, seems like they had other things on their mind. You won't need a HDTV to get all the beatiful details out, I'm running it on a regular TV and it's as beatiful I can believe it could be, though I recommend you to have a good sound functionality to get all the great stuff out of the sound details in the game, surround sound with a nice bass and likely is just as good as beeing there on the field.