Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter... Very Quick first impressions!!!!

[compygeek]

So I got the game, and am absolutely blown away by it. It is by far the greatest looking 360 game out thus far!!! And I was VERY impressed with how FNR3 looked. I've just sat down and played the game for half an hour so I can't really break the game down as much, but from what I've played so far it's a gorgeous looking game. The city scape is totally amazing looking, but the only thing that has kinda bothered me so far, and it has been stated in some reviews, is the lack of civilians in the city. It's a ghost town in Mexico apparently in the future. All you 360 owners MUST get this game!!!

[Incubus2good]

oh, i know eh, lol...i went and got my preorderd copy yesterday, and played about 3 levels, its amazing. and compygeek, did u play the level where you fly in on a blackhawk helicopter firing a minigun at people on top of buildings? IT LOOKED SOOOOO REAL!!!!, and the sound the gun made was just amazing. i love this game, won't put it down for a looooong time :D...one bad thing i heard about was that the graphics on multiplayer aren't as good as in single player for some odd reason. i haven't played MP yet but, i hope its fun fun fun :D

[nightwolf]

most likeley with mutiplayer there trying to make it preform well over looking good so then dumb down the graphics a bit so you don't experiance lag as much as you would if there were playing with full graphics, but it sounds great i have to get a 360 and check it out some time soon. sounds alot better then Ghost recon 2 which i have to say was a big let down

[Nuke]

I didn't even know this game existed until I saw this post lol. I looked at my friends list and noticed that everyone is playing it. Where does everyone get all this money... EDIT: and time :)

[nightwolf]

were professional bank robbers and since that is our jobs and we hit maybe one or two banks a week we got loads of time to play games :) .

joking but i don't know where these people find the time

[Incubus2good]

im only 18. i make the time :P

[Law]

I was looking for King of fighter and noticed that Ghost recon was out. I was tempted to buy it but i hate blowing 80 bucks. Still might pick it up......or just rent it.

[compygeek]

I was looking for King of fighter and noticed that Ghost recon was out. I was tempted to buy it but i hate blowing 80 bucks. Still might pick it up......or just rent it.


Well, if you like the Ghost Recon Series, or even the Splinter Cell series, you won't be blowing 80 bucks, trust me. Every review I've read speaks praise of this game (with only a few gripes, mainly the lack of civilians.... go figure). I'm playing the game on hard and even though it's really tough, i'm enjoying every minute of it.

Oh and to Nuke with regards to where do i find the money or time, I just paid off my car and the extra 400 a month that i used to drop on it really helps!!! LOL!

[Law]

I like the SC series (unfortunately my friend has yet to return my copy of chaos theory even though he beat it and i havnt) and i Love the rainbow six 3 game for PC.

Maybe I will go pick up this game. Is it realistic like RS3 for PC where one shot will take you down or is it like RS3 for xbox where you have a life bar and its more arcadey.

I hated the arcadeyness of RS3 for xbox , I like realism.

[Incubus2good]

only thing i don't is... when you kill people they don't really die realistically, its just the rag doll affect. but everything else is just fantastic lol.

[Law]

I heard it has 16 player co op, that alone sounds amazing

[chief]

Ghost recon has always been 1 shot kills, I still gotta get my 360 :(

[Nuke]

I'll probably pick this up at the end of april or so unless something better comes out.

[Law]

I will grab it at the end of the month.

[Incubus2good]

both of you just get it now, its so good :D

[Law]

both of you just get it now, its so good :D

Well when i get it well have to do some coop or MP , especially when Nuke gets it too.

[Incubus2good]

hehehe, i havent played it online yet, hope its good

[Law]

hehehe, i havent played it online yet, hope its good

Do you still have DOA4? I need someone who will let me beat them 100 times in a row online...........

[Incubus2good]

haha i do have it still, i don't know if i would let you beat me 100 times though lol

[Law]

haha i do have it still, i don't know if i would let you beat me 100 times though lol

Aw come on. Ill let you beat me 100 times in a row too for the acheivements.

[Incubus2good]

lol, you know how long that would take too haha. Maybe Teddy Ruxpin can help ya out lol

[Law]

set to one round and minimum health it would take no time. ah well

[Nuke]

Buy the game for me and I'll let you do it :d

[Mouse]

You know you're playing a great video game when:

- About a third of the way in, you start over from scratch just because you want to stretch the whole experience out as long as possible.

- You put the controller down after a particularly tense and exciting sequence and say, "I can't believe we pulled that off" -- and the "we" refers to yourself and three computer-controlled allies, with whom you feel genuine kinship.

- You try something that you don't think will work because the game designers would never have accounted for it, and it does. Spectacularly.

- You wish you could show it to your mom, because you think she'd be blown away by how far video games have come since the days of Space Invaders. And maybe she wouldn't question your career choices so harshly.

By those definitions, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is truly a great game. Except for the name, which is way too long and cumbersome.

As one of the most hotly anticipated titles for the Xbox 360, and coming from Ubisoft's long and storied Clancy game pedigree (which also includes the Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell franchises), GRAW has a lot to live up to.

And oh Nelly, does it. But first, some background: The year is 2013, and you're buckled into the combat boots of Capt. Scott Mitchell, leader of the elite U.S. military unit called the Ghosts. This time out you've been dropped into sun-baked Mexico City, where what begins as a military coup takes on much more sinister and threatening proportions.

(And bad news for Canucks -- while you're tasked with protecting the presidents of both the U.S. and Mexico at different points in the game, we learn that the Canadian prime minister was one of the first casualties in the rebel attack. D'oh!)

First and foremost, GRAW is a showcase for what the Xbox 360 hardware can do. From heat-hazed streets to bullet-riddled barrios to a majestic castle, the environments have been created with a level of detail never before seen in a console game, and Mitchell's animation as he lopes along deserted streets or dives for cover into deep grass is fluid and lifelike.

The firefights in the game are truly cinematic, with all the chaos and adrenaline you'd expect from a gritty ground war. At times your enemies will have you so thoroughly pinned down behind cover that you'll wonder how you're going to move, but then one carefully tossed grenade and a couple bursts from your automatic rifle, and the tide has shifted.

As you make your way through the 12-mission campaign, you'll ventilate enemy soldiers, defend VIPs, blow up bunkers, recon enemy positions with a flying drone, direct Blackhawk helicopters and APCs to attack dangerous targets, strafe rooftops with a chopper-mounted 50-cal, monitor your allies' actions through a nifty camera link, snipe targets hiding behind soft cover, bark orders to your capable A.I. squadmates and ultimately more or less save the world. The end.

Which is what you'd probably expect from a Ghost Recon game. But what GRAW does so well is tie all its elements together. The amazing graphics, the perfect audio, the intuitive controls, the diverse missions, the cool weaponry and hi-tech heads-up-display, the crafty enemy A.I., the complete lack of loading screens, the 16-player co-op (yeah, you read that right) and multiplayer modes ... it's hard to think of any way the game could have been made better than it is.

Hey, mom? I'm bringing the Xbox 360 out when I visit this summer.

[compygeek]

lol, you know how long that would take too haha. Maybe Teddy Ruxpin can help ya out lol


you scratch my back, i'll scratch yours... how many points do you get for 100 wins???

[Law]

you scratch my back, i'll scratch yours... how many points do you get for 100 wins???

Im not sure but regardless, i just know ill never get those achievements on my own online. I dont care about the points .....sort of

[Law]

Buy the game for me and I'll let you do it :d

I barely have enough money to buy myself a game.

[Law]

Oh and its only up to 50 wins online not 100 so that wil lsave some time, not to mention after i win the 50 against you and then let you beat me you also get the gold star acheivement.

Id say its worth the half hour to an hour that it will take.

[Nuke]

I'm going to get on to play some PDZ today finally. :bll: I haven't been on my 360 for over a week I think.

[Law]

if youre on later tonight then well have to try to finish that level we are stuck on

[Incubus2good]

anyone know if theres a way to have more then just one respawn when u play instant action campaign? and if theres a way to have more then just 3 lives when u play elimination?