Game Title:Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Release Date: July 2007
Genre: Tactical Shooter
Game Developer: Grin studio
Publisher: UbiSoft
Platform:PC,PS3,XBOX360

Brief Description of The Game:
The game takes place in 2014, 48 hours after the events of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, just south of the United States border, and deals with the conflict between a Mexican rebel group, Mexican loyalists, and the U.S. Army for a time span of 72 hours. U play as the role of Scott Mitchell, leader of a team of elites code name Ghost Recon or simplily refered to as the Ghost. Within a limited time span of 72hours, you have to lead the team against the mexican guerilaas and try to retrieve the missing nuke missiles from the mexicians.

GamePlay:
The game looks outstanding, complete with detailed and accurately animated character models, beautiful environments and stunning lighting effects. Soldiers, in particular the one you control, offer immense detail, looking and behaving real. The environments that you find yourself in also offer a great level of detail, complete with some truly realistic lighting and weather effects, which firmly concrete the GRAW(ghost recon advance warfighter)series as one of the better looking series.
Small flying debris could be seen flying around randomly infront of your screen. Dust could be seen blown away from the ground` or from the ruins of the structure.Take a look at the picture below, slight above soldier number 4 , the upper level of the ruined structure. notice that dust particles are flying out `


`theres hardly time to catch a breathe and take a look at the scenery...

Now take another look at the pretty particle dust system used in the game, which can be illustrated by the following pic` dust generated from the ground as the chopper is taking off.


start of yet another mission meant for the elites`

Enough said about the visual effects. What makes a game attractive is how realistic the game is. What i'm refering is the game physics system which affects most of the things in game like explosion effects. instead of just simpily an animation of explosion` ,hundreds of small debris could be seen flying away in all direction as an after-effect`. other examples,thousands of objects colliding with each other, fog that oozes around characters in motion, cloth and clothing that interact with the environment, and gushing fluids that tear through the gaming world. Graw2 is one of the game titles which heavily make use of physics to make gameplay more realistic.In fact if you owned a AEGIA physics card, you will be able to enjoy the game in full(sadly i dont own one but the effects are still stunning).


Another important factor is the game AI,something which is a little disappointing.
I played the game @normal difficulty as it was my first time playing such genre of shooter. The computer ai seems dumb at times. If you`re in a crouching stance and
not in the viewing angle of it. it will not discover u . Take a look at the following pic. It be uundstandable if i was sneaking behind him but i'm simpily just a couple of step next to him. gosh.
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neva stick your eyes to the gun`

Some of the times your teammate will get stucked in position` and you have to reorganise the waypoint` to get it moving`. Other of the times they simpily move infront of your gunfire direction when order to move past to another direction.However the computer ai seem well versed in arts of war.your teammate will cover each other when moving in recon mode (simpily means crouch mode)and lie down when under fire` . On the mexican side they seeem life-like. running forward and sliding down to take cover when being fired on. moving constantly randomly` to avoid gunfire while determining your position`. When i threw a grenade upon them` they simpily scatter and look for cover!. In one the mission , i thought i was seeing a life combat exercise. soldiers threw smoke grenade all over the place` while heliptor drop troops down the rope`. snipers taking position in afar structures` while foot guerillas stick close to the fence` moving one by one to their position. sometime sliding down the ground as part of precaution of gunfire` while moving out. i was surrounded in a matter of sec`. Lucky for mi, a nightvision google is always available. No smoke can stop my killing muahaha.

Tips:
One of the tactic i found useful is equipping the team gun's with scope and suppressor` and grabbing a few grenade in my backpack to clear concentrated areas.wild gunfire will trigger of their alert of your presence so suppressor is a mustmust which make your gun go silence(some guns only). Firing a gun without supressor is a NONO. IF you do, moving upon the sight of the mexican will be fired upon instantly even if you are crouching are lieing down.However when using a gun with suppressor,do take note not to miss as they will quickly pinpoint your positioning. grenades are useful for clearing roadblocks and tanks! however its hard to estimate the range which u'r are throwing. Smoke grenades arent realy useful as positioning yourself in a crouch manner is enough to go unseen`.
One of the worst scenerio is facing opp helicopter ` which fires two rockets once in a while`. You MUSt grab a anti-air gun from one of the mexican u killed and believe mi even so those helis are hard to take down`.Its takes around a few rounds of bullet to down one. They do however fly in a noticable route. Try to not to face the heli when its facing you. quickly run to a cover as its about to fire rockets upon you.


stick to the side of structures when fighting in the streets`

Overall,Graw2 is a great visual feast game and must not be missed. However i do hope theres more single player mission and that the ai can still be improved.The missions are hard and takes a few rounds of trial and error in order to complete. It only took mi <1week playing 3-4 hrs each day to complete the full single player. _. even though i tried some of the missions many many times.I'm giving the game 4/5 stars!

i'm waiting for graw3 :)

Game Over.!