Not only the best Xbox 360 launch game as it's one of the best shooters of the year in my opinion.
If you are like me, who spent the last year or so playing Halo 2. You probably spent a lot of time perfecting your aim. Now when you pick up this game you are going to miss a lot at first. The controls are great themselves, but the precision is a lot harder to achieve this time around.
The sound in this game is just as good as the graphics are. The shooting sounds perfect. The music changes well to the mood of the situation you are on and depending on your surroundings.
The single player mode will definitely take you a while to complete it. The amount of time it takes you to complete it completely depends on what difficulty setting you are playing with in your first time though the game.
The easiest difficulty setting is way easy, but perfect agent is quite hard and after you beat each level at that you will unlock a even harder difficulty level which is dark agent, which is in other words "almost impossible".
The multiplayer component is really where you will spend the majority of your time on. You can play though the single player mode cooperatively in your local Xbox 360 or though Xbox Live also. Playing though the single player game cooperatively in many ways offers a completely different experience than when you are playing solo because player 2 won't start out as another version of Joanna Dark. Player 2 will start out as another character that is contextual to the mission, so the second player might start out at a different place than the first player, but they will eventually meet up in the way. The online experience isn't anything out of the ordinary, but the huge selection of options, the really good quality maps, and the smoothness (I haven't ever experienced lag since I started playing this game online) of the online experience, still makes this game a really competitive shooter. You have 2 gametypes witch include "Deathmatch" and "Dark-Ops". Deathmatch will let you play with bots. Deathmatch variants include Killcount, Team Killcount, Capture the Flag, and Territorial Gains. Dark-Ops works just like the Counter Strike rounds system do, so you will earn money every round as you play and you can use it for buying armor and weapons between each round. Dark-Ops variants include Eradication, Onslaught, Infection, and Sabotage. So this multiplayer should keep you busy for quite a while.
While this game does not redefine the first person shooter genre, it's one of the best shooters of these past years, simply because of its crystal clear graphics, awesome sound, and of course its huge amount of single-player and multiplayer options. This pretty much has everything you would want in a first person shooter game. Anyone who gives this game a score less than 9.0 has technical issues in their TV or they, themselves just have issues like I stated earlier.