Thanks to buying a wealth of games in one go and being outdoors a lot due to the bright weather I've again only had a brief go on this completing the first mission of the game. I'll set out early and say that this is my first real dabble with the franchise as the Ghost Recon arm of the Tom Clancy games has never really appealed and demo's have always left me feeling cold.
What we have here then comes across to me as very Gears in nature. It's the same 3rd person system of cover based shooting through waves of enemies that many other games feature. Now, my newness to the series might mean that that's the norm but given the series history I'd expected more tactical elements than what's present here so far. There are some aspects which crop up such as the sensor grenade but it's a little half arsed in implementation. You can throw the grenade and it will sense all enemies within a set radius even if they're behind cover so you can spot them out. However, taking one down seems to always alert them all and spark off a full fire fight. Also, even if you throw the sensor grenade into the thick of a crowd of enemies they never question or acknowledge its presence which seems daft.
Other than a short and very basic stealth section the game seems to progress in this fashion, the near future setting offering little in terms of difference to proceedings. The game is based around online co-op with you travelling in a group of 4, I've not tried playing with other players yet but the AI of you team mates means you don't really need to think about them as you go around. There's no chatter or characterisation to pick up on, the cutscenes being mostly PS2 era of generic military chatter.
I expect later missions will add some more equipment to the initial load out you can choose from, though it doesn't feel like there's a bad load out as such as confrontations are straight forward. However, it does control well with you having to use the cover as the main character you control can't take tons of damage (something fans of higher difficulties might like on their playthroughs) and the visuals and sound are solid and clear enough. So, overall so far, it's an enjoyable if straight forward game. If you have some mates to play the co-op with it should be a decent blast that way too.
What we have here then comes across to me as very Gears in nature. It's the same 3rd person system of cover based shooting through waves of enemies that many other games feature. Now, my newness to the series might mean that that's the norm but given the series history I'd expected more tactical elements than what's present here so far. There are some aspects which crop up such as the sensor grenade but it's a little half arsed in implementation. You can throw the grenade and it will sense all enemies within a set radius even if they're behind cover so you can spot them out. However, taking one down seems to always alert them all and spark off a full fire fight. Also, even if you throw the sensor grenade into the thick of a crowd of enemies they never question or acknowledge its presence which seems daft.
Other than a short and very basic stealth section the game seems to progress in this fashion, the near future setting offering little in terms of difference to proceedings. The game is based around online co-op with you travelling in a group of 4, I've not tried playing with other players yet but the AI of you team mates means you don't really need to think about them as you go around. There's no chatter or characterisation to pick up on, the cutscenes being mostly PS2 era of generic military chatter.
I expect later missions will add some more equipment to the initial load out you can choose from, though it doesn't feel like there's a bad load out as such as confrontations are straight forward. However, it does control well with you having to use the cover as the main character you control can't take tons of damage (something fans of higher difficulties might like on their playthroughs) and the visuals and sound are solid and clear enough. So, overall so far, it's an enjoyable if straight forward game. If you have some mates to play the co-op with it should be a decent blast that way too.
online is very squad orientated and the lack of players trying to go for the objectives means if you are on your own its pretty pointless. get a good crew together tho and I reckon you could clean up and have plenty of fun!
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