Being a charitable sort of guy and Roger being enormously tall and wide and very scary on dark nights, I promised faithfully to print his thoughts once I'd removed his arm from my windpipe. Over to you, Rog....
You know how it is when new games come out? You get hold of
a copy of a new title and if you're lucky enough not to have been swept away by
any pre-marketing hype, you load it into your Xbox360 and expect sumptuous
graphics lovingly crafted to enthuse realism. You know, games like the Modern
Warfare trilogy, Crysis 2 and the Gears of War saga ...
Well, you get that with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future
Soldier... but only just! In a way theirs is refreshingly different but I do so
wished that they touched on more attention to detail.
The campaign has 12 decently mapped levels providing very
challenging missions to play on your own (with three AI counter-characters) plus
co-op with up to three online friends.
TCGRFS also provides impressive accuracy when it comes to
weaponry, sounds, environments and the peripheral scenery with long-range
distant vistas that other games developers tend to "fog out".
I've played and
completed the campaign on Recruit and Veteran difficulties both solo and with
co-op buddies and it's immediately re-playable, especially if you're a stickler
for in-game challenges, achievements or trophies. I'm now gearing up to tackle Elite
difficulty and facing a tough choice: opt for the stealthy approach or go in all
guns blazing...
The game also has the obligatory on-line multi-player
facility with many combinations of team-based modes as well as Guerrilla Mode where
wave after wave of ever increasing enemies try to defend an imaginary
Headquarters. There are 50 waves to master so banish sleep!
Although there's never been a truly perfect, well balanced,
exceptionally programmed, graphic paradise of a game all rolled into one, TCGRFS
certainly has been a remarkably executed and considered game and is definitely
a strong contender amongst the current crop of heavyweight first and third
person shooters.
The Tom Clancy genre has continued perfectly - all we need
now is Rainbow 6: Patriots and Splinter Cell: Blacklist to complete the perfect
trinity...
Score: 4.5/5
Lovely bloke, Roger - the guys at the Home are missing him badly though...
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