[BabeSlayer]

I finally found some time last night around 11pm - 230am to get in some real time on this game. What follows is a review of my findings.

First of from the get go you are struck with in your face badass mucho trip these guys are on. They pretty much act invinsible, and for good reason. I loaded up the campaign and the first mission was pretty standard training course. Once I actually got into the story it started off pretty dang cool incorporating some true facts about Somolia and some other conflicts America has been involved in, that it employeed the services of Private contracted security agencies. Of course it was topped off with 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan. That had me really excited for the story line thinking I might actually have an intelligent shooter on my hands, alas dissapointment was just around the corner. Once again a great idea was taken and turned into something mundane and purely average. So far with the story-line i'm become more and more non-impressed.

The gameplay however does not dissapoint. It is a fun fast paced 3rd person shooter style with a good amount of tactical thought needed. There are guys you face that you can't take just head on and you really gotta work as a team to take them down. The gun battles can get hectic and the guns fire very well. Using your partner is essential to victory in this game. A few complaints I have with the gameplay is the melee attacks need to be fixed. It seems to be just about rollling the dice if your gonna melee attack or not. Its kinda frustrating after you sneak up behind a group of foes and try to melee them out one at a time, only to have your gun accidently fire and give away your position and everyone turns and guns you down. Then of course your mostly retarded teamate (unless you have the privilage of playing with another human) will come over and try to revive you to the demise of the whole opperation. Team sniping is a great Idea, its pretty fun to pull off to but not usual in too many areas. It is employed intelligently however which i appreciate. The back to back is probably when the graphics and physics of this game really shine. Things slow down almost to a matrix style look and you are swinging around back to back with your partner downing foe after foe. It is some serious eye candy.

The dilouge between the characters however really distracts from me feeling like a badass while playing this game it borderlines on childish at time and there is some seriously lame comments made throughout the game. At times its just down right comical for example "Arlight fuck'os stay outa my way" "fucko's who says that?" That was an exerpt of a convo right before I took down an aircraft carrier.

The gun and gear custimization really adds to the game. You start out with some decent gear but beefing it up and then going into battle really makes a difference. You can change pretty much everything on the gun and really make it a work of art...literally cause you can gold and jewel encrust it to piss off your enemies even more. Kinda funny but cool at the same time. Changing the guns (or upgrading them) actually changes their physical apperance into to make it feel like your actually packing around a new piece of hardware and that helps engross you in the game. The masks are obviously a highlight of the game...i mean who doesn't wanna take on some terrorist while looking like a member of KISS coming straight out of the depths of hell to dish out death to those who fight against Democracy?

Graphicly this game has its ups and downs. It flows nicely and the graphics in parts are breathtaking, but then they drop the ball in some areas the animation (especially death animation for enemies) could have been better, i understand my gun is strong but when I can knock a dude 12 feet back with a shot to the chest but can't take his head off with it its kind of a annoying almost. Games would do well to take leasons from Soldier of Fortune...of course thats the only lesson they should take from that game. There are very few glitches I have noticed this far, usually when the two characters are interacting to pull each other over obstacles or whatever, but nothing major and nothing that distracts from the game.

Overall if your waiting for the game of the year, keep waiting. However if your looking for some fun fast paced co-op action and a pretty decent single player experience pick up this title and enjoy your badassness with a badass buddy. The co-op on this certainly does not dissapoint.