Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers

After really enjoying the brothers in arms series, I thought "hey, FSW is squad based gameplay, looks kinda fun!" little did I know that any sense of fun was lost at the door. See, there is a lot of fun in a tactical game, but a lot of it comes from knowing what your up against quickly then assessing the situation. you know whose more suited for the job and what your enemies weakness generally are. of course you can be surpiresed, an ambush might take away all that progress, but that's fine, tahts what an ambush is. FSW, is a complete mess of a game, which just left me with questions every step of the way. how was it my soldiers cannot seem to want to shoot a guy right in front of them? are Trained us soldiers not able to hit a slow moving target out of cover and instead just shoot at a wall blankly? are soldiers so stupid they'll just run in front of allied gun fire? how do mere millta have better aim then that sniper from Full Metal Jacket? Why oh why oh why... through in crappy checkpoints and enemies that can just respawn behind you for no apparent reason. oh yeah the grapihcs are awful for a 2006 pc exclusive. DONT BUY!!!

It is very clear that this game was made with consoles in mind. way too much of the UI is bound to the mouse and WASD. Note that you do not move the squad with these commands but you instead set a point for them to run to. Same goes for shooting, you mostly give them a fire sector instead of fireing yourself. this becomes very cluncy when you have to juggle between two squads. if you want a good squad tactics game then this may be something for you, but if you look for either a pure tactics game or a 3rd person shooter then this is non of these things.

I would have gave this game a higher score if the gamepad and well mouse and keyboard controls were not so horrible, they inverted the stick controls with no way to change it, you can change the keys and gamepad buttons at least, but moving takes getting used to and slows down the flow of the game. Gameplay is ok, teaching you how to use formation tactics in an army setting with a bit of a story. the game has bugs on the pc, for one if one of your guys goes down, most of the time its stuck in slow mow so you have to exit and restart the checkpoint, and its pretty easy to have a member go down even on the lowest skill setting when you should be able to deal with recovery of a down teaa member. I wish i could rate this higher, if you can live with learning the controls and the bugs, maybe you can find something here, I think they put more effort into the first game and kind of slapped the game togeather.

This game is a bit difficult, wich is part of the charm, and it brings back memmories of my childhood. So perhaps I'm a bit byassed, still a great game :)

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