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Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2016?

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From: Toby Newman
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:54
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On 2016-10-02, Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * Ghost Recon Future Soldier (replay)
> It's hard to review Future Soldier because there's so little
> substantial about the game. It's an absolutely forgettable Call of
> Duty clone that suffers all the problems of its better-known
> inspiration, and a number of its own problems besides. It has the same
> dull story-line, with cliched and idealized super-hero soldiers,
> ultra-linear levels, brain-dead AI and brown-is-real graphics. You
> can't open a door on your own, and dare not stray far from the
> expected mission path lest you get an automatic game-over. It
> fetishizes guns to an obnoxious degree, even for a military
> first-person shooter. Nominally a co-operative shooter, its levels do
> little to encourage teamwork. It gameplay is full of unrealistic
> gimmicks and annoying gameplay restrictions (most apparent in the
> enforced stealth sections). It is unexciting, trite and predictable
> and so unremarkable that its barely worth writing a review for it. 

I co-opped the single player campaign and found it to be enjoyable
fluff, but my friends and I got really into the Guerrilla Mode. You
have to survive 50 waves of enemies while moving between locations in
a level. I think we played nothing else for about a year, until we'd
managed to hit 50 on all the arenas. It was wonderfully tense and
varied throughout.

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-Toby
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