Full Spectrum Warrior

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Before I review the title, there is a thing I need to mention: on Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit version) and Intel HD 4000, this game has a mildly annoying audio stuttercrackling issue. No amount of tinkering with compatibility settings seems to solve it. I do say it is MILDLY annoying: it is usually only present during dialogues, and not so much during the rest of the game. That said, the biggest issues are 1. its length: I haven't counted how many hours it takes to finish it, but a rough estimate puts the number at about 8-9 hours; 2. the annoying "sit rep" thing: the game has no "saves", it has sit reps, which are locations marked by military insignia of some sort you have to move your squad to. The annoying thing here is you usually command two teams, sometimes three, and you need to move all of them to that location; and sometimes, both teams can be far from each other, and there is no button to call all of your teams to a given sit rep location; also, consider that each of your squads has to be moved multiple times before it reaches it. Seriously, what was the point? A quick save or checkpoint-based system would have been much smoother and less annoying. 2b: each sit rep ends with "Sit rep saved... Out."; the original quote is much longer and "drawn out". You hear it every time you load a game, and there is no way to skip it. What an oversight. 3. You sometimes cannot "lock onto" a cover quickly enough with your mouse; it's hard to explain. I don't remember it being such a pain on the Xbox; 4. No controller support. Lame and reeks of being a rushed PC "port"; 5: you cannot issue an order while another order is already being carried out; you can cancel your current order and issue another one, but it would have sped many operations up. 6. literally the worst of them all: when switching from a team to another, it takes time for the camera to "reach" the selected team: it is not istantaneous. 6b: sometimes very bad camera. Otherwise a solid, 78100 game.

The game is great and challenging, but they didn't include the copy protection needed to activate the game. Second one works though.

I read a few review....some good....some bad. I reckon it's a fun game.....u do die sometimes.....but it's fairly realistic.....if u dont check a corner......theres more than likely gunna be some baddy there to blast u away. Controls are simple to use......but sometimes I find it hard to put your men where u want them.....like if a cover point is far away down an alley......it hard to get em just in the right place......even if zoomed in - a couple of times I've died for this. The graphics are good and I like all the sound effects.......I've played this several hours at a time.....which for me is unusual......normally I get the poopy's and threaten to uninstall (funny the games have never replied back about that).

Tactical Fun!