if you like guns or watching things blow up, you WILL like something about this game
Story: didn't keep me too interested to be honest. It does have a storyline, just didn't keep me immersed in it well. Its a battle in mexico. i guess someone takes the president hostage and some radio jamming thing called guardraill 9 or something like that. its kinda confusing but thats not really the point. There is a separate co-op campaign in Nicaragua as well but that story makes even less sense than the single player one.
Graphics: This game is an older game, no way around the fact. But this game looks like something that would have come out a week ago. it really holds up well. The lighting really makes it though. the only thing that bugged me was some VERY MINOR clipping, some choppy smoke effects and the fact that when you re-load, the mag doesn't actually come out of the gun. But if you can get past those things like i did, you'll really find yourself immersed in this lifelike re-creation of a war torn Mexico.
Sound: The sound is fantastic. it really puts you right there with your squad. the explosions sound so real! and the guns have a nice popping sound to them that puts your sub woofer to use as well. Once you get to the end of the game, you'll start to realize how repetitive the explosions start to sound. It doesn't make them bad by any means, it just doesn't seem like they had enough variety with them. The voice acting is also top-notch
Gameplay: Works very well, but has a few flaws. your squad mates WILL get stuck or confused and most of the time its at the worst possible time. i've had to re-start entire levels multiple times throughout the game because my squad would get stuck and confused when i order them somewhere then get themselves, and eventually myself, killed. Other than that the cover system works very well. i can't really compare it to gears of war or rainbow six vegas cause they're all good, its just not similar enough to either of them to compare. but believe me, it works really well. a few frustrating aiming moments but only a few in what i thought was a decent sized campaign.
Multiplayer: INTENSE. not many people are playing anymore though, its hard to find a match so i suggest hosting a match of your choice and just waiting for people to join, and they will. i had a game will max players going one night. it was a 4 hour party pretty much. it was so fun, everyone was talking. we had good teams, everyone was communicating and coming up with tactics to defeat the other team and capture points and such. it was awesome. but it was short lived, only cause like i said its really hard to find players who still play this version online. i never got to finish the co-op campaign. i played 2 of the missions with some guys i played online matches with and it was pretty fun. just as fun as the single player, but not much more. i'm not so sure what it was i didn't like about it but it just didn't seem quite as well done as the campaign missions in single player. seems almost like ubi decided to sacrifice quality just cause it was co-op and we won't care, cause its co-op and that's whats "in"
you can get this game for like 10 bucks or less at gamestop. if you don't have it, just go get it. you'll like it.