I used to play the hell out of these games as a kid and got extremely frustrated. Not because the game was unfair, but because i wasn't smart enough to successfully accomplish combat maneuvers. The game does a great job of walking you through the basics. And the missions steadily progress in difficulty, to the point where the later missions are unforgiving. It is not impossible, and by no means unfair, just difficult. Something that i think is missing in modern day games. It does not hold your hand. This is still a fantastic squad based tactical military simulation. I'm not going to touch on the improvements from the first one because most of them have been outlined in other reviews. I would kill for a modern full spectrum warriors game, or one similar to it, but they would need to STAY AWAY from the CoD audience. They have a great system going, but the moment they implement the ability to take control of a soldier and make it a first person shooter, it's all over.