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Hit, or Miss?(Review From Amazon) | General Comments:
If you haven't yet played a Ghost Recon game, Ghost Recon 2 will be some good fun. Up-to date graphics, a fresh story and hours of challenging modern combat is what you should be expecting from this title. I was expected a bit more based on my great experiences with the first Ghosts, which entailed a more tactical approach. And this is where the disappointment begins. The game play: I quickly learned that I no longer have control over customizing my team aside from weapon selection. The whole team is assigned automatically. Yuck! Also, the team is smaller and must face more enemies, armored vehicles and helicopters. These things seem to steer this title away from its roots which is good and bad.
There are so many good elements found in the original GR which are missing here, such as being involved in developing the skills of your team mates. Previously you could send 6 into the field and let them gain valuable experience and make them better. Also missing are bonus objectives that, when successfully completed will unlock new team members and weapons. Another nice feature was winning medals for personal kills during a mission. These, and other features, seem to have vanished. All of it was sacrificed and replaced by a lame point score system that has no effect on your team's performance or outcome of the missions. It only serves to let you obtain images, big deal.
You start with an initial objective in each of GR2's missions, further objectives are then added by your HQ during the mission. One of the major flaws in the game is this very thing. You may think that you have completed an objective only to find that you have to backtrack to a previous location because you missed a secondary objective that was added during your mission. After which you may have completed the objective and not even realize it. This aspect of the game needs some improvement to make the game flow better and alleviate some frustration.
Aside from a few irritating things that are likely just a result of personal taste, it's a decent addition to the series.
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Stoping N. Korea.(Review From Amazon) | General Comments:
Imagine this: North Korea is going in to seize Chinese territory after the crazy General blames the Chinese for a great famine that is starting and The Ghost must go in and stop them before major damage happens. Well you don't have to imaging it when you can pick up your copy of ghost Recon 2 for the Xbox.
Ghost Recon 2 is an amazing game that was very well made. First of all, the graphics are great for an Xbox game. The picture is pretty clear and is also well detailed from my point of view. They made the controls very easy to know and learn and understand. The movement of the character is nice and clean for the most part. The only game play issue that I had was that I thought that the game campaign was a little too easy for me. I like challenges in games.
When you play multiplayer, it is very fun. There are some very fun and cool maps like bunkers and query. It is very fun to play with friends only. You will become addicted with the online part of the game. There is one major flaw in the game though. When you are playing Xbox Live ranked games you can earn 5 stars for a rank and then go to sleep and wake up with 3 stars and you had never lost a game. It is very frustrating when you earn your good rank and then you loose for doing nothing. Other than that, the Xbox Live is great. You can play, Sharpshooter, Last Man Standing, Siege and many more. Plus there was an update that went out a while ago with more guns and maps. This is a must check out. I would not recommend renting this game only because it is so good that you should just put up 20 dollars or even 10 for a used copy. This is an amazing game and a great sequel to the ever popular Ghost Recon.
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