Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

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GRAW 2 is a FPS with a high degree of combat realism. The graphics look good for the most part. This game, like other Tom Clancy games, focuses more on combat realism than on action. You must take cover, just as you would in real life if you were in such gunfights. There is small margin for error. One or two hits and you are toast. Forget about healing from behind cover as you can in Resistance, Rainbow Six: Vegas, and other modern shooters. Waiting behind cover does not seem to make much difference in how much damage you can take. Forget about picking up health in the form of food or medkits. Again, the game is highly realistic. The way you can heal is by calling over a medic if you have one in your party. And herein lies one of the negatives about this game: poor AI. Your team members can be good soldiers if you manually target an enemy and command them to attack it. However, I feel that there is too much babysitting of your teammates when they should be able to work more independently. Often when you call your medic he is slow to respond, and may run right through gunfire getting himself killed as if he was waiting for the exact wrong time to come over.

Additionally, there are annoying flashing pop-ups that come on your screen quite frequently which will not leave your screen unless you hit select, go to an aerial reconnaissance screen, and then hit select again to return to the game. Some players may like to get a bird's eye view so often, but forcing players who just want to play the game to do this is obnoxious.

Bottom line: Get Rainbow Six: Vegas instead. It is similar in play, has a good degree of combat realism, though with the ability to heal within a few seconds behind cover. There are no obnoxious pop-ups either.

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I am currently renting this game and have almost beaten it. The Graphics are stellar, the best i've seen on a PS3 game yet. I'm not sure how it did compared to the Xbox 360 version, but for PS3, this is definitely one of the better games.

You can switch between over-the-shoulder view, and first person, although in first person you can't see your weapon, unlike the prequel. The new zoom functions on the weapons are a nice touch, along with the ability to hold your breath and steady your weapon. Has many more features than any of it's predecessors, including the new spy-drone, MULE, and biographical data on your enemies, i.g. their health readout display.

The cons: Multiplayer seemed to be more directed towards an online audience, and if you do not have internet, it may seem frustrating to set up a game at home for multiplayer. Steep learning curve, for a new person it might take a couple training levels to learn how to use all the controls. The multiplayer could've used a bit of a revamp for more levels and modes of play. The game occasionally freezes up, typically after 3-4 straight hours of play.

Pros: Weapons details are much more realistic than any other Ghost to date. Explosions are at an all time high with this new Ghost. I like the unparraleled joy of filling a vehicle full of lead that the enemies are hiding behind and watching it blow debris everywhere and mushroom-cloud smoke into the air while it wipes out all the enemies in a huge radius.

There are several new selections of weapons to choose from than any before.

Overall, has the potential to be the best First person shooter PS3 in th market, a fine example of what Blu-ray can do in the right hands.

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I have only spent five hours on the clock, and tried the training and online multiplayer. The graphics is phenomenal with a lot of vivid details. There are 40 multiplayer maps. Many of them allow you to set the current weather conditions, and the objects show up accordingly. Developers in their video interview are very proud of the graphic presentation of explosions, smokes, could, sunshine, ..etc, and I see why.

Online gameplay is smooth. The battlefields are decorated with all sorts of things. Character movements are very life like. The motion sensor controls are interesting, but can be not so responsive.

The multiplayer maps are big and packed with features like drone order (which lets you spy on enemy territory that finally reveals their exact positions on your first person view), teammate view, injured and wait for medication or die and spawn now, ..etc.

But for me who enjoy the upclose duel with enemies in Resistance Fall of Man's Nottingham map, GRAW 2 instead is somewhat slow. Some maps seem to be huge enough for 32-64 players (but only 16 or 32 supported, not sure), so players like to be snipers. Accuracy is highly emphasized (also better than Resistance), but there is no knife or punch. Slow running, small figures in first person views, and lack of knife/punch is why I'm taking one star off GRAW 2. Also to me, Resistance wins in the online gameplay fun factor if watching how you gun down the enemies up close is what intoxicates you.

It does let you carry a rifle, a handgun, and two kinds of grenades. Weapon change takes about 2-3 seconds, which is closer to the real situation.

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Being a Tom Clancy game, I had my doubts about how good the game might be, since I'm not a big fan of his games...HOWEVER, I must admit, I just got this game 2 days ago, and I am having a blast playing it.

It's very realistic, and I must say that it's way better than Rainbow 6: Vegas, and overall, it's a really fun game to play.

The gameplay is very smooth, shooting is fairly realistic, you can hide & cover behind almost anything, there's a nice choice of weapons pick from, you can choose team mates, and your team mate intelligence is very good, (as is the bad guys). Your teammates just don't stand around in the open looking stupid. Heck, you can even shoot thru certain types of obstacles to get a bad guy, like thin walls, or something like that.

You have night vision, you've got help from a flying remote vehicle, you can place teammates anywhere you like, you can have your mates do some recon for you, you can even look thru your own team member's helmet cam for a different perspective on the battlefield.

The CONS:

GRENADES:

It's almost impossible to have a grenade land where you want it to land. Which is why I love the SOCOM games so much, because, in SOCOM, you know exactly how hard to throw it, and you KNOW without a doubt, where the grenade is going to land! In this game, it's guesswork, at best. And 9 times out of 10, you miss your targets....Which is a total waste of a good grenade!

ENEMIES:

Sometimes there are SO MANY bad guys at one time (in one concentrated area), it's a REAL CHALLENGE to get them all, unless you have a bazooka or something..... But, when there's 3000 bullets ripping your way, you sometimes can't even get a few shots out....Which is a bit annoying.

HEALTH:

While you can get help from a medic in this game, there's not much margin for error in terms of getting shot at...You better hide as often as possible....I guess it's just like real life, but, being a game, one would assume that even on an easy setting, that would change just a little bit??? But, it does not! So, be prepared for that when buying/playing this game.

OVERALL:

Other than those few bad points I have mentioned, it's a really fun game to play, it's very realistic, and has some pretty cool features...Let's face it, no game is perfect, and this game is no different, (and I still love my SOCOM games better) however, Ghost Recon 2 is certainly worth the price of admission, and probably the better (maybe the best) new military game thus far, for the PS3 game system!

Chris

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I won't repeat what other reviewer's have said. If you like the realism of Ghost Recon, then this is the game for you. The graphics are very good! I'm an ex PC gamer because PS1 and PS2 just didn't have the PC graphics. But PS3 really competes! The single missions are fun. Personally they are a good warm up for Online play. You want realism? You MUST play online against another human! Ghost Recon fell short in the Online Main Menu though. Once your in the game..great! But actually getting into a game.. frustrating. The game is in charge of putting you into a room. It randomly chooses a room. Almost always, the game tries to put you into a room that is full or a game is already in progress. In other games you are able to "choose" the room that has less players and also "choose" a room that has not started game play. Or it lets you jump into a room where the game is already running. Am I asking for too much??!! I don't think so. Sometimes it takes 10-12mins to get into an room that is not full. If you do get into a game.. stay there! Once your in, the game is awesome. With A LOT of different maps! Enjoy!