Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 Review
- Posted September 4th, 2007 at 12:50 EDT by
- 18 Comments
Review Score
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
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- PSU Review Score
- 8.5
- Avg. user review score:
- 8.2
Summary
GRAW 2 is finally here for the PlayStation 3 console, and being a port does little to deter from its striking gameplay. Along with the online portion, you’ll be playing for hours on end to progress as one or as a team, depending on the mode chosen. The addition of the Sixaxis is a bit sloppy, but nonetheless GRAW 2 delivers. This is a Tom Clancy game no one should pass up!
We like
- Stunning visuals complemented by amazing sound
- Intense missions
- Great online experience.
We dislike
- Limited Sixaxis delays, but sensitivity customization mollify the situation.
- Some frame rate hiccups
- Battle dialogue could be improved.
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Fulfilling the role of a Captain is certainly not an easy thing. You must stay up endlessly for hours, complete deadly missions, and lead a squad to an objective in harrowing conditions. With Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 for the PlayStation 3 console, players will be submersed in a realistic warfare experience as Captain Scott Mitchell. A key figure of the armed forces, Mitchell and his Ghost squad are the final tool for damage control in Mexico’s civil war of 2014. The country is in a state of chaos, and utter destruction. With your team, you must retain the peace, stabilize humanity, and keep civilization in tact.
It’s not the game’s unbelievable atmosphere or story that keeps the players constantly asking to return to war, but it’s the unrealistic gameplay. From the time you pick up the controller, GRAW 2 feels natural. From an over-the-shoulder perspective, use L1 to precisely aim, R1 to pull the trigger, tap X to take cover or reload, hold X to change your weapon's rate of fire, hold circle to switch guns, and R3 lets you use your scope if you have one. As you battle sadistic enemies, filling up the gritty atmosphere, you can order your squad around with the D-pad arrows to have them Move, Fall Back, Stay, and or Follow on you. With this newly customized and optimized squad control system, players can overcome the Mexican Rebels in a strategic manner.
When you finally lock and load, you discover that although the missions require a strenuous amount of work, they are trouble-free with the aid of squads. You'll discover that the success of your squad relies on specialization of where the troops will be. As we proceed into across the ash-covered streets, our unit faced an arduous mission as the mercenaries rampaged our troops in a church courtyard. A helicopter promptly came to our extraction point, and we barely escaped a rocket that almost spun the chopper.
In the greater composure of it all, GRAW 2 focuses on the way you play to stay alive, and most importantly keep alive. The core ability to tackle the same objectives and missions from multiple perspectives is a key component to the battle system in GRAW 2. When a mission starts, you can choose not only different weapons for adaptation to that specific mission situation, but also to customize your battle stratagem.
At many points in the game, you can easily utilize a M.U.L.E, a futuristic ATV that carries along weapons, health, and bullets for your mission at the forefront. The M.U.L.E can be summoned via the same D-Pad interface that orders your dexterous troops around. If you want a more hands-on approach and the follow command isn't to your liking, you can hold down one of the shoulder buttons and drive the vehicle yourself from the first-person perspective. Although the vehicle can take damage, if you're squadron is seriously injured and need to scout ahead, taking the M.U.L.E. up the road isn't a bad idea. In fact, there's even a hovercraft called the UAV Cypher you can pilot ahead to scope the baddies, helping you be up to date on what’s ahead and out there to get you and your squad prepared for the upcoming battlefield. The primary difference between the 360 version of the game is that even though you can primarily use joysticks to pilot these warfare amenities, they are Sixaxis-enabled in the PlayStation 3 version. You can tilt the controller in GRAW 2 to move the M.U.L.E., fly the UAV, and do a couple of on ground moves such as rolling and roll shoot.
The Sixaxis controls were a bit delayed, but there were no apparent issues in terms of control. In earlier builds, the roll was a bit tough to initiate with the Sixaxis, but it’s much improved and can be enhanced with the controller’s sensitivity options.
The port of GRAW 2 is definitely closer to the real thing than previous Ubisoft ports, such as Rainbow Six Vegas. Luckily, the overstated camera movements found on the 360 when any squad members will furtively run to a cover point. There's a frame rate slowdown in the rides when ... (continued on next page)
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sofaking13
- 7:59am EDT - September 4th, 2007
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hmmmm....played the demo and couldn't help but think it didn't stack up to RainbowSix Vegas....maybe this title does deserve a look.
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blingblaine
- 8:03am EDT - September 4th, 2007
- 2
this game is equal to rainbow and has more options for team play! definatly a buying game. i have both and am amazed with both. graw does have better graphics and rainbow has better physics. all in all they are both smokin 9.0 games!
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Harlequin1987
- 8:40am EDT - September 4th, 2007
- 3
got the game at home its amazing offline and online tho the frame rate online is alot lower an there tends to be quite a bit of lag but still over all amazin! well add me to ur ps3 network for ghost reacon if you want Harlequin1987
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gingo
- 8:47am EDT - September 4th, 2007
- 4
psn id: gingo... after i played the demo i was so glad i didn't buy it because i as very disappointed but after reading this review i maybe should have bought it, oh well i'm buying many games that are going to cost me a bomb so i dont think 1 will make a difference
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InfernoReaper
- 1:08pm EDT - September 4th, 2007
- 5
I liked the demo, and this just concretes my thoughts. I'm buyin it.
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papasmurf12
- 9:32am EDT - September 9th, 2007
- 11
Can i do split-screen online on the same system on Graw 2 like in Warhawk on the ps3?
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oopsadoops
- 10:17am EDT - September 9th, 2007
- 12
loved the demo,
would buy, but saving for NHL, Skate, and rockband gives me no budget.
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franckribery07
- 6:11am EDT - September 10th, 2007
- 13
looks interesting but i will only buy it when it gets some kind of a price cut (platinum edition).
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Aratacus
- 2:09pm EDT - September 12th, 2007
- 14
way, way way better than rainbow six.... i think rainbow six was pretty cool on 360... but on PS3, the loading, the lack of server "list" just dropped RSV to not worthy of the effort... However GRAW2 is the best shooter i own on the PS3... 40 maps online!... the co-op isn't that great.... the visuals rock! the controls rock!(after customizing and getting used to)... i got warhawk a week after i got GRAW2... im still playing Graw2 instead.... gotta get your GRAW on! go buy it... no good shooters till november people!! DO NOT JUDGE BY THE DEMO!!!!! that demo is like almost a year old, and the final visuals look much better... not everyones game... but nothing better out... IF You like SOCOM, you'll like this game....
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kingkong23
- 5:13pm EDT - September 14th, 2007
- 16
listen dude, i love ubisoft games as much as the next guy, but this game sucks. i tell people that all the time online. they said if you like RSV, you should like GRAW2, but i played it and sold it the next day. its mainly RSV except your outside. its way to complicated, which i dont like.
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Dougifresh
- 1:48pm EST - February 28th, 2009
- 17
I have always enjoyed the Ghost Recon series. I picked this one up before even trying it, just because of how much I loved the first ones. I regret not trying it first, however I still love the game. Be ready to spend some tutorial time learning controls.
The controls on this game are WAY to over complicated. They bogged down the controller trying to make everything you do a shortcut of a shortcut of a shortcut, or hit this button, press a direction and hit another button. Games like Resistance, Resistance 2, and Killzone 2 are why these series are always being made. Its a game that you play and beat and play a week of it online before you save your money and trade this one in. I love mine, and I hate talking bad about it, but, the game isn't that impressive. It is one of the realist shooters out there, and the graphics are mind blowing, but I still just don't get into the game as much as what I used too. FPS makers forget the simple saying of "K.I.S.S." and that is what is happening to alot of games today. You have got to keep a shooter fast, action packed, and remember to just Keep it simple stupid.
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