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Gears of
War 3 |
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93 |
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Release Date: 20-Sep-2011 |
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Save System: Checkpoints |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
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Fighting/Combat |
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Action |
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First Person |
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Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
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Sports |
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Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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Review
With the action packed campaign mode and
the intriguing gameplay, Gears 3 is the best
shooter game to the date. Epic delivered us
what was expected from them. Enemies have
improved and increased since the last game
and boss fights are now more fun. I even
restarted one of the fights before the
checkpoint hits, just to experience it all
again. Turns out it became much harder next
time and took multiple tries which earlier I
did in first go haww. Game also features the
four player split screen co-op mode,
something no developer try to care about
these days. It's true that people prefer
online than split screen but if you are
already providing online co-op mode then it
is quite a cheat to skip the split screen
option. Graphics have improved a lot, at
least it was easily noticeable in the first
chapter. I guess later on I was totally
occupied by the gameplay to notice anything
else. Storyline is simple like always, no
jaw dropping moments but little emotional
touch was given this time. I gave 80% points
in length as it was at least twice of what
shooters are these days. It has 9-10 hrs of
campaign and I believe that this should be a
minimum target for every shooter game.
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Dead Island |
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72 |
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Release Date: 06-Sep-2011 |
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Save System: Autosave at mission
completion.
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
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Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
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Horror |
[✓] |
Survival |
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Puzzle |
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Review
Dead Island in few words 'The zombie open
world experience'. Dozens of zombie like
creatures closing in from every direction,
few can run others just drag themselves. It
is a good experience but lacks in several
respects. The poor facial animation, a human
face looks like a 'pasted mask with moving
lips' Also the male characters in the game
have a very unusual habbit of dancing with
their faces while they are talking to you.
Gameplay is good but the main focus of the
game is a 4 player co-op. Game is designed
in every respect to be played in a co-op
mode which is little frustrating if you are
playing alone. e.g. You may be doing a
mission alone but when cutscenes come, all
main 4 protagonists are shown like they were
there all the time. Even if you talk to
someone in the game, the other characters
respond like there are 3 invisible
characters also alongside. The main problem
is that number of enemies remain same
whether you play alone or co-op, this makes
survival extremely difficult. To deal with
this game provides you in built 'God mode'
It is not optionable, whenever your health
depletes, you spawn at some nearest location
in 5 seconds without restarting the mission.
This makes you lazy enough to put any effort
in the fight. Though there are few escort
missions, where your survival is important
else the person you are escorting will be
left alone for 5 seconds which could easily
end the mission. Instead of all this 3 AI
controlled players should have been given
like in most of the games. This would have
helped to keep balance in the difficulty and
fights a bit more interesting in single
player. For most of the time it is better to
run than to stand and fight but few times
game creates a situation where fight is
mandatory. There is some RPG element in the
game like skill tree and melee weapons being
most effective against zombies makes
inventory management important. There is one
very unusual thing in the escort missions,
though you are sent to previous checkpoint
in case of failure to defend but any ammo or
weapons you consumed are not reverted back
to you and in case you earn any new weapon
the same is taken away from you. This could
lead you into a situation of no weapons.
Repetition is taken good care of in the
game, whenever game starts becoming dull, it
changes the experience. But still after all
the problems, kudos to developer for
creating an open world game where competing
with Rockstar was really challenging.
Storyline is moderate, remains slow for most
of the time but gains pace towards the end.
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Driver: San
Francisco |
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91 |
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Release Date: 06-Sep-2011 |
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Save System: Autosave at race/task
completion.
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
[✓] |
Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
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First Person |
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Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
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Sports |
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Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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Review
Pros
1. A very unique gameplay, you can shift
into any vehicle (including traffic)
anytime. This real time shifting opens up
wide range of possibilities and game
utlilizies them perfectly to create
experience you would have never went through
in any other game.
2. As much the game is easy in the beginning
as it is challenging and unforgiving towards
the end.
3. Though main storyline races are few but
there are a lot of secondary events and
challenges that provide around 15+ hours of
fun.
4. Heavy traffic racing.
5. Quite a big map and whole of it is
available to you. Anytime you can press A,
zoom out and shift to some other area in the
game.
Cons
1. In non-storyline events you can bring any
car that you have unlocked and purchased.
You can bring Lambhorghini against slow
speed jeeps leaving the poor AI no chance to
win.
2. It is strange that for booster only 'RB'
or 'forward on joystick' are allowed to be
used.
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Bodycount |
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38 |
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Release Date: 30-Aug-2011 |
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Save System: |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
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Sports |
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Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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Review
The Codemasters, word itself means beware
and they once again brought us a below par
experience. The game has lots of problems
not one. The environment is repetive, it
seems they made multiplayer maps and same
were used for single-player campaign too.
Result is that you keep on going through
same areas over and over again. Enemy AI is
dumbest I have ever seen. There is also some
trouble with audio, environment sounds are
even higher than bulletfire. e.g. sparks due
to damage, are pitched so loud that you will
wish to quickly move on to next level just
to avoid them. Game also reminds me of
Crackdown in respect to some elements, which
is not a good thing either. In short this
game is horrible.
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Deus-Ex:
Human Revolution |
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97 |
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Release Date: 23-Aug-2011 |
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Save System: |
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Game of the Year 2011 |
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Genre
RPG |
[✓] |
Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[✓] |
Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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Review
Few years earlier I used to hate RPG games but
that's long ago & it got all changed with Mass
Effect 2. Since then I have played few RPGs
including Fallout & now RPGs are all over in my Top
10 Games list. I even named Mass Effect 2 as
GOY'2010. Thanks to all that I played Deus Ex, the
Action RPG. Deus Ex is something special, something
uncomparable. From it's 'Stealth or Attact you
choose gameplay' to Audio and to storyline, all
deserves full marks. It's a never forgettable
experience & for all these reasons, I can easily say
that it's the best game that I ever played. If you
didnt played it, stop calling yourself a gamer.
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Call of
Juarez: The Cartel |
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73 |
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Release Date: 19-Jul-2010 |
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Save System: Checkpoints |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
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Fighting/Combat |
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Action |
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First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
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Sports |
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Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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Review
Guns, chicks, explosions,
dialogues...everything is in this game but
just missed one thing...greatness in all of
these, something memorable. It's just play,
get bored and leave, kind of experience.
Like other shooters these days this one is
also very small, sad, only RPGs satisfy our
need for longer games now. Game is not open
world but does gives an experience similar
to one, like there are lot of car chases
etc. Story is little weird, hard to enjoy.
In short thumbs down.
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Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 |
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59 |
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Release Date: 12-Jul-2011 |
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Save System: Checkpoints
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
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Fighting/Combat |
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Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
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Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
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Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
[ ] |
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Fear 3 |
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81 |
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Release Date: 21-Jun-2011 |
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Save System: Checkpoints
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
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Fighting/Combat |
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Action |
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First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
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Sports |
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Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[✓] |
Survival |
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Puzzle |
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Review
The game that is scary, the game that
strikes fear in you,,is called F.3.A.R. It is hard
for a game to be both scary and action packed but
Fear 3 provides both. It's a fast paced action game
that has lot of horror elements. To be honest, there
were lot of 'oh shit' moments in this game. Don't
play in the night will be my advice. Not just that,
game is quite challenging also, there are lots of
boss fights which are not easy to beat. Forget about
horro movies,play Fear !!
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Duke Nukem
Forever |
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80 |
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Release Date: 14-Jun-2011 |
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Save System: Checkpoints |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
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Sports |
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Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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Review
Duke is a good shooter game, it is not
something though that will make you play it
again & again but yes it's still a good one
time play. Duke's jokes or you should say
dialogues are funny. Game is lengthy enough
& keeps on bringing the change in gameplay.
It is quite a traditional FPS shooter, apart
from the shooting there are ocassional
puzzles to find your way ahead, which I
really found interesting.
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Operation
Flashpoint: Red River |
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62 |
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Release Date: 07-Jun-2011 |
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Save System: Checkpoints
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
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First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
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Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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Review
All the points this game got are for last
2-3 missions, otherwise game is quile slow
and boring. You would play this game only if
you are out of games or something. You lead
a team of four and instead of poping enemy
heads, you spent most of the time healing
yourself and your team members too.
Checkpoints are at odd spots & there is
lot of time you spend waiting before the
action continues. Team members don't follow
instructions many time. Graphics are good, there
was quite a view in one of the mission that
is played in night time, if you keep night
vision off. In short game is playable but not
enjoyable.
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