2007-03-09 16:39:25 GRAW2 Reviews! + Give us your thoughts about the game!

I just read the eurogamer review and it sums up what I feel about the game completely especially the end part

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It's All About The Games!!!!!!!!!

2007-03-09 16:48:59

I got my GRAW 2 yesterday, i think i'm on act 2, and i have to say its great so far, its alot more epic than the last one, and the explosions/smoke/lighting effects are the best i've ever seen in a game on any platform, its visually jaw dropping, i'm very impressed so far.

2007-03-09 17:19:11

It's extremely good, new cross com really upgrades the gameplay (better team management). The game does not look as good as Gears, but I'd say it's on par due to fx and environments size.
Only issue : too easy !
I haven't been able to try the mp but my friends told me it's awesome.
A must buy for people who liked GRAW1, according to me.

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2007-03-09 17:27:12

GRAW 2 is much better then the first one imo better graphics explosions are awesome alot of neat touches. The story was good not so good at times though and some good missions and some not so good. But the one thing that let me down is its as short as Gears of War i completed the game day i got it must of been 8 hours worth of gameplay and Elevated Risk (top difficulty) was hardly challenging until Act 3.

So overall enjoyable but i would much prefer to have more Storyline in the game i want to be playing a few days not one sitting.

And multiplayer Co Op Elimination Firefight and Helicopter takedown is great fun playing with my friend. Basically we had to go agaisnt 50 men then there was Helicopters in sky also and you can do this on any map. How it works with Helicopters is they come out and get harder to it goes 1 heli, 2,3,4 making it harder when you blow first one 2 helis come and when you kileld them 3 helis until but you get an Apache really tense gameplay great fun. My only complaint on this mode why is there no stinger missiles you have Bazooka kind of gun but you have to aim to get direct hit which is so annoying especially agaisnt Apache kind of helicopter.

Overall quality game i give it 8/10

2007-03-09 17:43:51

How long does gameplay take ? If it's worth the money then it should be over 15 hours.

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XBOX 360 FOREVER !

2007-03-09 17:45:41

As i said took me 8 hours singleplayer on top difficulty thought it was very short only 3 Acts quite dissapointed on size of story tbh. But multiplayer is where this game is plus all the good effects updated graphics worth a purchase imo. :)

2007-03-09 18:25:27 In reply to alimokrane (2007-03-09 16:39:25)

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2007-03-09 18:29:34 In reply to lukasblue (2007-03-09 18:25:27)

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It's All About The Games!!!!!!!!!

2007-03-09 19:01:43

I've been playing this game for 2 days straight:
I'm hooked!

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"You're being arrested for drunk driving."
"Drunk definitely, I don't know if you could call it driving."

2007-03-09 19:11:57

My friend has just gotten the game is Singleplayer Master already. All SP achievements complete. I like it, just not as much as I enjoyed GRAW1. GRAW1 came at just the right time. I had no new 360 shooters, and there wasn't anything else I was interested in.

GRAW2 was an impulse buy, and I've only made it through the tutorial. Going to go through it on elevated my first run through. Seems like the right thing to do :).

2007-03-09 20:26:14

The magazine reviews I've read are pretty accurate. GRAW 1.5 is more like it. Although don't let that disuade you if you liked the First GRAW. This version is more like GRIT was to GRAW, or GR2 Summit Strike was to GR2. It should have been Called GRAW:Insert title here.

It is basically the game that the developers would have liked to release if they had not been pressured by the bean counters to get GRAW1 out, after it didn't make the 360 launch.

Its polished graphically, has solid single player. The multiplayer maps are nice, better than GR1 I think. And it has a compass!

If you are a Tom Clancy GR fan, it is a must buy. I'm enjoying it. Not a big step over GRAW1 though.

My biggest complaint on GRAW2 and GRAW1, why make really 2 seperate games. The controls are different for using cover in single player and multi. The graphics engine is downgraded for multiplayer, and 2 different game studios developed GRAW2. Ubisoft Paris for single, and Red Storm for Multiplayer. Why? Isn't it possible given GOW, to use the Graphics Engine from singleplayer in multiplayer? I've never seen an interview ask any GRAW developer this question.

2007-03-09 21:22:45 In reply to lukasblue (2007-03-09 18:25:27)

2007-03-10 04:19:56

I'll be skipping GRAW2, felt #1 was overrated and only bought because of lack of 360 games at the time. Now RB6V is the scrizit online. :)

2007-03-11 11:27:17

I've just finished the campaign and although it's shorter than GRAW1's campaign it's way more fun and intense...

There are atleast 10 moments when my jaw hit the floor from the amazing views/actions/levels you get to see in the campaign and in my opinion this game looks better than GoW...

everything looks amazing (except for the night vision that sucks big time) :D

I even got ranked number 43 on the world wide leader board based on my campaign score :D How cool is that...

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"You're being arrested for drunk driving."
"Drunk definitely, I don't know if you could call it driving."

2007-03-11 11:31:30

Im playing it on the medium setting and Its definatly easier than GRAW was. That moment in the training where it switches the time of day to a sunset is absolutely stunning. All in all Im enjoying the campaign more than that of the first game but as I said it feels easier and much shorter.

I havent really had a chance to get a good multiplayer game yet cause my friends dont have the game but the amount of maps plus the myriad of options means Il be playing this for a long time.

PS - One cool thing for fans of GRAW multiplayer is that you can download the map "Nowhere" and it has the redone lighting and everything.

2007-03-11 12:03:23

A good reason to take reviews for what their worth sometimes God of War 2 received a 7 from edge...

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Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

October 20th 2007 (A good day)

2007-03-11 12:16:23 In reply to TheBeagle (2007-03-11 11:31:30)

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"You're being arrested for drunk driving."
"Drunk definitely, I don't know if you could call it driving."

2007-03-11 13:00:03

I will do that. Yeah the campaign is definatly more refined and enjoyable. As one review I read said these tom clancy games need to nail a more involving storyline and characters that we can actually care about. If they bring this to the ghost recon franchise I believe it would be perfect.

2007-03-11 17:43:19

While I don't neccessarily agree with EG all the time they're consistent in not giving a crap about hype and just scoring a game whatever they think it deserves. The 3 for Sonic the Hedgehog is why an 8 for Secret Rings actually MEANS something to me when I read it on there.

I'm prolly up there among the bigger critics of GRAW 1 after being scorned by its glitches and lacking AI, so maybe I'm having an easier time digesting a 7/10 for that, and likewise I don't think Gears is the 9.6 second coming of sexual intercourse that Jeff Gerstmann at Gamespot claimed, thus embracing the down to earth 8/10. But suffice to say I've had my fair share of disagreements with EG, and yet I still value their input more than many others precisely for that same reason.

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2007-03-11 19:30:08

From what little I saw of the game, the single player looks more enjoyable this time around for sure. In multiplayer, I was impressed with the lighting. However, this game (maybe just in terrorist hunt) has some extremely bad FPS issues. I was watching someone do t-hunt on a dam level and he was probably getting ~5 frames per second at most. Er, the first one was smooth :( I also have some issues with how fast it looked like people were moving online, but I was drunk so maybe it was just me.

2007-03-12 08:26:31 In reply to R0oK (2007-03-11 19:30:08)

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"You're being arrested for drunk driving."
"Drunk definitely, I don't know if you could call it driving."

2007-03-12 08:45:40

I guess there might have been around 10 t's close by, not sure about smoke though. I don't know though, anyone with the game can confirm... I won't be buying it anyways (<3 vegas too much).

2007-03-12 08:47:20 In reply to R0oK (2007-03-12 08:45:40)

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"You're being arrested for drunk driving."
"Drunk definitely, I don't know if you could call it driving."

2007-03-12 09:31:18

He was playing by himself :o Glad people are diggin' it though. The first was a good game.

2007-03-12 10:08:23 In reply to R0oK (2007-03-12 09:31:18)

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"You're being arrested for drunk driving."
"Drunk definitely, I don't know if you could call it driving."