Let me start by saying I usually honor all of Gamespot's reviews and find many of them extremely useful when selecting games. However, upon playing Freedom Fighters, I do not believe it deserves even close to a 9.3. The Gameplay has one unique feature which has been of great interest to a lot of people: the easy-to-command fighters in league with you. I have to admit, this impressed me at first. You follow me!! Attack!! Defend here!! However, due to the extremely repetitive gameplay this feature gets old quickly. While there are several secondary missions, most of which consist of simply blowing something up, nearly all of the primary missions just involve getting to the end of a level and putting a flag up. I mean come on!! Couldn't we have been a little more creative here. Sure there is one assassination and one time you have to flee for your life, but compared with all of the flags that doesn't amount to much. (The only reason the final level is different is you have to put up four flags instead of just one). Plot is also something I look for in a game. I was quite excited when I heard that the storyline would be conveyed via news broadcasts, but once again this did not work out as well as I had hoped. For one, there is only an extremely simple plot anyways, basically nothing compared to some other games like Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid. The broadcasts are quick interludes between missions, and while sometimes comic, get old fast. The graphics in Freedom Fighters is nothing too spectacular either. Sure, it's acceptable, but there's absolutely nothing special about it. The sound is the only thing that really stands out, using the eerie vocal music to great effect throughout the game. After finishing the game, I decided to go back and play it again to make sure I hadn't missed whatever Gamespot loved about it so much. I finally came to the conclusion that what this is is a perfectly average game, for better or for worse. However, many completely average games come out these days, and we cannot start giving all of them Editor's Choice.
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