No catchy title line in this.....GRAW 2 is just plain old great
The story is cool albeit a little thrown together. Like I said you are fighting a rebel force to help Mexico.....why Mexico I dont know maybe the developers didnt know how Iraq looked or didnt want to offend Iraqis dont ask me. Anyways your some Officer (as usual never a SGT) and your the star of this fiasco. Your job is to stage by stage clear out these insurgents lol. Well aside from some talk from a general and some black guy didnt pay attention to who he was (and im black so who cares) things are talked about on a sometimes confusing manner. Nevertheless things roll right along. The biggest problem with the story is it is very short so short that I beat the game in like a week and these days that is rare for me considering my lack of tim to fully give a great game like this. The mutiplayer makes up for the lack of depth here though.
The Gameplay is a little confusing with the controls but easier when you get use to them. It plays similairly to Gears but with better layout and button use. NO multi use of the A button. Getting on and off of walls are easy and fun. Poping up to shot is even better and makes sense. The sniper rifle can be a bit cumbersome. Overall though the controls are tight. You can feel it when you make a kill because of the good rumble use. You feel like you in danger by the great layout of everything. Enemies dont much and sometimes force you to look for them. They are not all smart though as most of them set patterns and you can just wait and kill them. It seems you never run out of ammo either. Where your team mates are involved though its a weak mixed bag. Why didnt they do like Socom and make voice command optional? It can sometimes be confusing switching between a UAV and your team mates in the heat of battle. You get so nervous sometimes its hard to do stuff. Believe me at some points in this game things will be coming at you hot and heavy. Glad I havent run into stuff like this in real life. Theres even a stage set up like the black hawk down story.
The music is very effective and laid out to kick in at the right times. Lets face it though folks music is a foregone conslusion where 360 games are concerned cause you can turn it on or play your own so music should always be a 10 in my book. Dont like what the games playing? Play your own music right? The sound effects and the voice overs more than get the job done.
The multiplayer in this game is the best I have seen in terms of variety.Like gears you can team up with a buddy online and play another story mode so its like having two stories in one game. Then there all types of co op matches cause lets face it some of us (namely me) suck at death match lol. As usual gamerscore is a big factor in this game and drives you to want to play more and more. I think it wins over gears in this dept but not many will agree.
In short this game is nothing less than phenominal and I would play it more if not for my back log of games on over four systems (PS2, PS3, 360, DS, and PSP) so heres to GRAW 2 you make having a 360 worth all the money I spent on it. PEACE yall!!!