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We check out the GameCube and Xbox versions of Io Interactive's upcoming third-person shooter from EA.
Freedom Fighters is the upcoming third-person shooter by Io Interactive, the Denmark-based developer most recently known for the Hitman franchise on the PC and consoles. The game blends fantasy and reality in a fashion similar to Hitman's futuristic take on the assassin trade. The game is set in an alternate future wherein the Soviet Union won World War II and has since grown into a superpower bold enough to invade New York City and powerful enough to succeed.
You'll be cast in the role of Christopher Stone, a New York plumber who's sucked into the resistance movement after his brother is detained by the Soviet forces occupying the city. Moments after his brother is taken, Chris winds up in a hall, getting rid of his frustration at the situation by beating on a Soviet guard who's harassing tenants in an apartment building. As luck would have it, one of the freed tenants is a member of the local resistance and recruits Chris to help him liberate their similarly incarcerated leader. From then on you're pretty much strapped into a moving train as the action in the game doesn't really let up.
You'll find two main modes in Freedom Fighters: single-player and multiplayer. The single-player game is the showpiece of the package, offering roughly 19 objective-based missions. The various missions will offer a good mix of shooting mayhem and strategic gameplay, which involves managing a growing number of troops that will follow you into battle. A unique feature of the various missions is that many will be tied to each other, although not in a linear fashion, which means you can decrease the difficulty of one mission by successfully completing another. For example, when you first start the game, you can go to one of two locations: a post office and a police station. If you choose the police station first, you'll find it's nearly impossible to take on the mission due to a small group of snipers preventing your advance. However, as one of the beleaguered officers will tell you as he directs you to some C4 explosives, if you can take out the snipers by destroying their perch above a gas station near the post office, you'll be able to get through the mission . You'll also find that destroying certain key enemies can affect the way your next missions turn out. For instance, if in one mission you're having an especially tough time taking down an attack chopper that keeps swooping in and pinning down your squad, you might try playing a different mission, one in which that chopper is landed at a base, so you can just sneak your way in and blow it up, and it won't be back to bother you when you return to the original mission. The multiplayer mode will let you play a split-screen match against friends, with each side aligning itself with either the US or Soviets. While the mode isn't an online deathfest, it's still pretty fun.
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- EA Games
- Io Interactive
- Modern Tactical Shooter
- Release: Oct 1, 2003
- ESRB: Teen
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