ENTERTAINING BUT FRUSTRATING
Graphics : Visuals inside buildings are on the most part impressive, however it is hardly pushing the boundaries here on the Xbox 360. Outisde however, they are often bland and look a little unfinished.
Gameplay :
Frantic gun battles can be exciting and immersive, the game holds up well with no noiticeable framerate drops. You cannot complain that the enemy AI is not challenging, espicially on hard as they are deadly accurate even when firing on full automatic. Perhaps unfairly, they do not react to bullets when hit, whereas your vision blurs realistically. Your team-mate AI is poor and often becomes a liablilty, having been downed in the middle of a firefight, you then have to throw yourself into the line of fire to recover them before they 'bleed out' , this often results in you being killed. Save points are too infrequent and trial and error gameplay becomes a redgular occurence due to the insane numbers of terrorists in each particular gunfight. Coupled with your team-mates poor AI it can become mightily frustrating. However, gameplay is very engaging as well as exciting on the most part, just marred by the ocassional extremely frustrating moments. The Single -player compaign is longer than average and on hard difficulty your looking at 15 + hours easily
Multiplayer:
A huge host of options and gametypes coupled with frantic online play makes this highly recommendable, however the visuals suffer hugely and they are reduced considerably for multiplayer.