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Do Not Waste Your Money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: March 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you like the GR games don't buy this one, it is the worst one of them all. No more is the 3rd person view and slow walk. Focusing with the scope is way to slow to even use it at times. Now it's like you walk around like a robot, very choppy and stiff....it even started to lag during the campaign. I loved all the other ones, but this one (for black xbox) is garbage. So save your money and buy a better game.

GRAW IS GREAT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

only reason im writin this is to say dont listen to that crack head that gave this a 1. I have a 360 and bought it for that and it is amaing and briliant. with the over the shoulde view like re4 it brings a new feel to gr which is good i never even liked the older 1's but this 1 is amazing the only difrence between the xbox and 360 versions r the grahpics they r amazing on 360 but still very good on xbox. The campaign and online modes r amazing some of the best iv ever seen and even an online comapign mode with missions just for online play. dont rent this game BUY IT TODAY!!!!

Good but not as good as the older ones

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was a little too excited when I bought this one for my Xbox. I own GR2 and Gr2 summit Strike and loved how they were designed. In Advanced Warfighter, there is no more first person for the Xbox version. Not a big deal, but I still would have liked it to be in 3rd person. Unfortunately, there is no prone.....I don't know why that is. Multiplayer is pretty fun, but it can get choopy at points. I think Ubisoft should have fixed this. I would rather have a game held back a month than have a bad laggy game. Overall, I like this game. Weapon selection is great! I do however think that GR2 and Gr2 summit strike are the better multiplayer games.

Is NOT an improvment over the previous titles

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I noticed that every Ghost Recon game is practically a completely new game, and although Advanced Warfighter is based on the same basis as the previous versions, this one has has several marked differences. For instance, the controls are very different, also the way you control your team is different. I liked and enjoy the gameplay very much, but that wasn't enough for me to like it overall. Actually, the game is excellent when playing alone in your Xbox, but playing on Xbox Live! is another story.

The graphics are good, but not as good as they should have been for a trilogy of games that have been on the same console (xbox) for a very long time. Everybody knows that when a new console comes out, the games aren't that good because the developers don't know the hardware/software very well yet, but they improve their versions with time. The original Xbox is now an old console and Ghost Recond 3 should have been a very big improvement over Desert Siege, Island Thunder, Jungle Storm, Summit Strike... When playing online you and your teammates move like a fixed bitmap. But, for me, the worst thing that I found with Advanced Warfighter are the awfully long loading times.

Let me tell you how it is how you play a new game with a friend on Xbox Live! First, you select Create Game, then choose the type of game: If you want to play cooperatively, you have only 2 options: a Combat, or a Mission. Forget about respawns, they don't exist anymore. Say you choose to play a Mission, wich you have to have finished before by playing the game on solo mode. You select from the opened available missions, just one (you don't have map rotation or anything else, the one you select is the one you will play). Then wait for an eternity for the map to load. Then the game goes to pause mode and you have to invite your friend to play with you. He/She accept the invitation and have also to wait for another eternity for his/her game to load. Ok, now you both are in the same screen and you may begin chosing your weapons for this mission and go play, but first, you have to wait, again for another eternity, for the game to load for both of you. Finally your playing, and lets imagine the following three scenarios: in the middle of the game your friend dies and the he says "hey, start it over, please, ok?". Or, you both die in the middle of a battle, or you both finish the game succesfully. Either way, the only option available next is to select "Leave game", and that means exactly that: you leave the game!

For the both of you to play again, the same map or whatever, you have to do all over again from the very begining: load the game, select the map, wait for the map to load, invite your friend, wait for your friend to accept invitation, wait for your friend to finish loading his/her game, select your weapons, start the mission, wait for the mission loads for the both of you, and then play. And you have to do that every time, there isn't a room where everybody can wait for more players, to chat, to select missions, combat styles, weapons, difficulty, etc. When one dies, he/she can still speak with the other player(s) (this is a good difference between this game and the other versions), but that is because the dead player can't go anywhere but out of the game, there is no room to return to.

At least I grew tired of this pretty quick, so I just play this game on solo and for now I play Conflict Global Terror online, at least until a new good game comes out. Oh, and I have my 360 console, but since I don't have friends who have one I didn't buy the 360 version of GR3 and when for the original, but now I think I should have bought the 360 version since I will be playing this game just on solo.

DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game is garbage for the original xbox - do not waste your money - trust me...I have ghost recon1, 2 & summit strike and this is a disgrace to have put out such junk and to think the studio that did splinter cell pandora tomorrow did this!! even a bigger disapointment...you have been warned.

Sort of the offspring of Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was a bit unsure based on the reviews/comments I had read, but once I put it in my Xbox and started playing, I was very pleased with it. I have Ghost Recon: Island Thunder, and both GR2s, plus Rainbow Six 3 and Black Arrow, amd it combines many elements from them. I was disappointed that you cannot swap weapons any longer and still cannot open doors, something not seen in GR since Island Thunder. But the HUD and Squad tactics reminded me of Republic Commando. If you are expecting a follow on to GR2, you will be let down, but rent it and give it a go if you enjoy Rainbow Six and GR. Your mileage may vary. But it was no more choppy lag-wise than Gr2 or Summit Strike. The load times are long, but it loads much smoother than Summit Strike ever has. The sprint and hold-breath functions are awesome, and the ability to carry a battle rifle and a sniper rifle is very handy, but I do wish I had a little more anti-tank toys in the first 2 missions. It will just take a bit of adjusting if you are a die-hard GR person, but worth the effort. The graphics are the best I have seen so far on the legacy Xbox, and about all the processor seems able to handle. But it will fill my fix til I shell out for a 360.

Don`t Bother with it...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Don`t bother with the XBox,PS2(GameCube?) version if you have an XBox 360-By all means get that version.
XBox has NEVER recieved a rubbish Ghost Recon game until this Ghost Recon:Advanced WarFighter also called Ghost Recon 3,GRAW and GR3AW.
the original Ghost Recon was good,GR2 and GR2:Summit Strike were VERY good.But GR3 just gets rock-bottomed.
I don`t have an XBox 360 myself but i have played the X360 version on a demo at a video-games shop and LOVED it.
I rented GRAW on the original XBox(which i have as well as a PS2 and GC) and i saw how different it was compared to the 360 version here:
-In the 360 Version you can switch between 3rd Person and FPV-but on XBox you can`t,you only have FPV mode!
-On the XB version you can`t jump over walls or anything.
-the 360 Version has WAY better graphix(or coarse)

If the XBox version is bad-It will be WAYYYY worse on the PS2 and GameCube so AVOID THIS GAME UNLESS you have an XBox 360.
I know the PS2 version will be worse because they get all the bad GR games since UbiSoft is SO biased to the XBox series when it comes to Tom clancy games.Although Rainbow Six seriesmon PS2 are good.
So f`get this version and get Full Spectrum Warrior:10 Hammers when it comes out at leasr FSW:10H will be better than the XB version of GRAW.

Seeya

This title still falls short in suceeding the original Ghost Recon

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon : Advanced Warfighter for Xbox (NOT 360!!!!)

Likes: The graphics in the game are excellent, but sound, the sound is amazing. For example in the game you can hear the shell casing being blown around on the ground when you are being extracted by helicopter, and you can hear your rounds piece the enemies bodies. I really like the cross com feature, and while I didn't use it at first, as soon as I started using it , it immediately gave me the upper hand on the battle field.

Dislikes: In this version of the game you can't pick up weapons, you can't go prone, you can't duck behind objects, nor can you slide like in the 360. I thought it was short because I beat it in a little over 5 hours, not including the other hour of loading screens where you see a circle move closer to the battlefield on a map.
One of my biggest gripes is that there is lag in single player campaign. As for multiplayer, they don't clearly show on the screen your health status in co-op.

Summary: Red Storm and Tom Clancy have set a standard in realistic first person shooters. And with every new title they should try and make it better than the last, what I am getting to is this game falls short of where other Ghost Recon games left off. I cant give this game a thorough review because I have not played this game on Xbox Live which may or may not be a huge part of this title. This is not the 360 version of the game so there really isn't any achievements to be had with Live. I feel like I am being a little giving because I have not played the live portion of this game. I will give this version of the game a 6.5.

~Nefarious79

Truly Pathetic Ubisoft

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well anyone who thought that the current gen versian of GRAW could match up with the 360 versian is disheartened. GRAW for the x-box is the worst game i've played this year. Unimpressive graphics, crap for controls and gameplay and it's laggy in single player! I am shocked that this game was made by ubisoft. There simply is no redeeming factors for this game it's just simply awful and UBISOFT should be ashamed of themselves for screwing over current gen owners with this craptacular game and what's even worse they had the nerve to sell it for 50$, that's just low. Easily the worst entry to GR series it's one you should avoid. The only GR game that could be worse than this is PS2 versian.

KRAP DESCRIBES THIS GAME!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: March 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

UNLESS you have got an XBox 360-I reccomend that you DO NOT buy this game.
Its choppy in visuals compared to the XB360 version,You do NOT have 3rd Person View in this version(more specifically Over The Shoulder View) just FPV(not as bad as the FPV in GR1-You can see the gun in this one).
If you Only own an XBox(or even PS2) get Full Spectrum Warrior:10 Hammers when it comes out-Just avoid GRAW for XB and otehr this-gen consoles.

GRAW is just crap on XBox,
But it WON`T be the worst believe it or not the PS2 version will suck even more hell!

Here is the way i reccomend all GRAW ports:

XBox 360=BEST one available-9/10
XBox=rubbish slim compared to the 360 version-5.5/10
PS2=WILL BE worse than even the XB version=4/10
GameCube=Worse than XB version but maybe not as bad as PS2 version-5/10.

So XBox(and PS2) ownersAVOID this game its sh*te-But get Full Spectrum Warrior:10 Hammers.
XBox 360 owner?GET GRAW its the best on 360 yet.

So listen to the reviews and steer-clear of the XBox game called "Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter" but do get the XBox game called "Full Spectrum Warrior:Ten Hammers".
Stick with Ghost Recon,GRIT,GR2 and GR2:Summit Strike if you are a GR collector.(on XBOX)

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