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Like the submarine assault, lighting plays an important role in Africa, when a sandstorm is unleashed on the town you’re escaping. The storm blots out the sun, throwing everything into an eerie orange darkness with muzzle flashes and lasers-lines providing a nightmarish atmosphere. Having to sprint through this hellish gauntlet ramps up the tension to dizzyingly levels that pull you in better than any other shooter this year.
While the game generally favours a balls-to-the-wall approach, gameplay is occasionally broken up into different styles. Overhead drone targeting returns, but the remote gun on a chopper is the clear winner. From the ground, you whip out god’s own PSP and obliterate small armies from town squares with a support chopper.
Stealth sections let the game down though as you’re never allowed to think for yourself, you’re forced to follow an AI partner. The only choice you get is to shoot the left or right guard. Deviating from the path results in a base-wide alert or a game over screen. At least the sniper weapons aren’t limited to these parts, there’s plenty of opportunity for long-distance death and the rifles feel spot on.
Other weapons are mainly familiar. Although one of the new semi-automatic shotguns fires so quickly it may as well be an assault rifle. You’ll like it a lot. One of the guns allows swappable sights for medium-long changeovers, but enjoy it while it lasts as I only found one more of them in the rest of the campaign.
Firing between targets is fantastically smooth, thanks to the light lock-on. Some weapons have a lot of kick to them, mainly ACOG-fitted ones, which I would dump immediately for anything with a red dot. Your grenades have lost a little oomph, meaning I often forgot they were there. The enemy still loves to spam them at you, so the new ability to send them right back is much appreciated.
The game can be frustrating at times thanks to some awkward checkpoints and the old problem of constantly spawning enemies until you cross the magic line. After dying a few times at tough sections, I was then seemingly ushered through, like the game whispered in the soldier’s ears “let him through, he’s getting pissed off.” Suddenly enemy soldiers weren’t shredding my face as much as the previous attempts and I waltzed through. Very suspicious.
The game is crying out for a new graphics engine. It’s not ugly at all, but the colours seem flat, like they secretly wish they were grey. The same old typeface and HUD refuse to let the series look like it’s advancing. A little polish around areas like this would make it feel fresh. On the plus side, they’ve got rid of the idiotic ‘jam effect’ on-screen when you get shot.
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The separate Spec Ops co-op missions against the AI return and the new survivor mode is IW’s answer to a zombie mode. Unsurprisingly, giving the enemy guns and throwing juggernauts at you isn’t as much fun as plugging the undead. Being able to buy better guns, turrets and aerial strikes as you earn more money from each wave does help with the added challenge. Both modes still only support two players, which is a letdown when you look at Gears 3, Black Ops and Halo Reach.
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