Full Spectrum Warrior!

User Rating: 8.9 | Full Spectrum Warrior PC
By zoostyle | Review Date:
With a great title like that it could hardly be easy to mess this game up. I got it when it came out in 2004 and I had to say I was left feeling VERY impressed by the gameplay and the overall game itself. Coming from a strong Tom Clancy background, I looked for this game to give me a shot in the arm as far as the next "true" successor to the Ghost Recon/Rainbow 6 style of games. Well the game comes pretty darn close to the heights of GR lore and fame but misses BIG time on such things such as basic reality and also damage models. Sound is an issue too (tinny SAW anyone?)

With that: NO ONE but NO one can survive fire from a full on BMP-1 by crouching behind a burned out car and also it being 5 feet away from you!!!! Same with any kind of cover such as standing behind a wooden cart which will get you ZERO cover in real life but here you could actually stand behind it for about a minute! Well, cutting this game ALOT of slack- it was touted as being based on a real US Army training tool so the real lesson to teach the player is to always look for suitable (if not always proper) cover in light of enemy fire. I got immersed seeing how well the soldiers covered sectors of fire and never pointed their weapons at another soldier. The voice acting was great with some exceptions. I missed hearing some of the old guys in the new game (Ten Hammers) like Sgt Williams, Pvt. Shehadi and Cpl Picoli. This game focuses on these eight guys mostly and you get used to hearing their chatter which does not annoy but adds alot to this game. Wounded men can get carried back to casevac but not more than one can go down. This is something the original GR lacked but should have had!!!! GR2 had auto-medics. Everyone is a medic! haha

Graphics are smoother in this game it seems than Ten Hammers and look better. Gameplay is not as good and the sound is missing at times (helos with no rotor noise????) the two games are more or less equal but Ten hammers has alot more game features.

All in all, one of my favorite games and a fresh approach to the Tactical Sim genre! Pick it up! "OP-FOR, DOWN BABY! DOWN!"

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