First let me note that I haven’t played this game with multiplayer yet so I can’t comment on that.

However this game is pretty good just with the single player campaign. The basic premise is that you’re a group of soldiers gone AWOL trying to chase down a load of trucks containing gold.

Along the way you get to handle trucks, armoured cars, patrol boats, tanks and even the occasional helicopter while you literally blow away the enemy.

Pretty much all of the environment is destructable, you can blow away all four walls off 90% of the buildings. However it doesn’t go all the way as you can’t completely level a building. That isn’t a major problem as you can still throw a grenade into a building and watch as in full HD the ground is ripped away from under the feet of an enemy on the 1st floor.

The maps are huge as well, and although the routes for the first few levels are fairly linear, the possible routes increase as the game goes on.

The campaign plot is simple but fun and the dialog both in game and in cut scenes is good and comical.

The major point that I didn’t like about this game is the AI, you do feel like the other three characters are not helping and just following you around. For instance, in parts of the story you fight without the other characters and it isn’t any harder than with them next to you.

Also, if you move fast they do instant catchup, it can break the flow of the game to see your fellow company members teleporting into view and they sometimes do get stuck.

However overall this is a really enjoyable game.

7/10

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