If you're one of those that have been waiting for a REAL next-gen game, then this game fits that bill perfectly.
The Bad: It's kind of strange that a city of 9 million people have no civilians and the AI of you squadmates have some minor flaws
The Review:
In GRAW you will once again be put in the shoes of captain Scott Mitchell, but this time in Mexico City in the year 2013. You start of by doing some basic assignment but then you'll suddenly find out that the Canadian Premier Minister has been killed and the American and Mexican President has gone missing, and it's your job to find them and bring them to safety.
The gameplay is neat and have a very next-gen feel to it, for example you can always monitor your squadmates or controlling vehicles via your cross-com positioned over your left eye, the cross-com will also give information about hostiles, allies, mission objectives, range etc. and kind of makes you wonder how you managed to go trough the previous Ghost Recon games without it. Apart from the your cross-com you can also give commands to your squadmates or controlling vehicles, commands like attack, move, regroup, offensive/defensive formation etc. Occasionally though your squadmates might get stuck sometimes, but thankfully that rarely happens, The weapons you will use trough the game can be anything to pistols, grenades to rifles and rocket launchers, and you can also pick up dropped weapons from your enemies by pressing the action button. Some of the rifles have scopes with makes it easier to take out target from longer distances and you also have the ability to hold your breath for a couple of seconds to greatly improve your aiming.
You can also take cover behind walls or objects to avoid getting shot witch is very good because one single headshot will take you out witch results in mission failure.
The graphics are marvelous, actually the best I've ever seen so far in a game I think, and it sometimes feels like you're controlling a characters in a well animated movie than more than actually playing a video game, The light effect are basically perfect and helps bringing you a realistic atmosphere.
The sound and soundeffects are just as good as the graphics witch also improves the realistic feel you get from the game.
The singleplayer campaign will take you about 10 hours or more to finish, but is well worth going trough again thanks to the greater difficulty setting and achievements you'll get by doing that, but also because of you can get to the mission locations in the game in many different ways. When you are done playing singeplayer the multiplayer option will keep you busy for a very long time, mostly because of the co-op missions, witch can be played locally with up to 4 players and also up to 16 players via Xbox Live. You can also customize the multiplayer modes pretty much in every way you want, However you can't use the cover ability in multiplayer witch maybe will disappoint some of you, but I think it's good actually because it's makes it more action phased and more relied on skill.
Well GRAW is one of those game that has pretty much everything, the game isn't perfect however but it comes extremely close, and I can almost say that GRAW for the Xbox 360 is what Halo was for the Xbox
//ZimpanX