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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter


Wickedly realistic military shooters get a new heavy

Looking equal to or better than the stunning Xbox 360 version (depending on your hardware), GRAW supports real-life goodies like the new Ageia PhysX card, for outrageously detailed modeling of objects as they fly apart from explosions. If you didn't drop $300 for a PhysX card, don't worry. Standard modeling of physical objects in GRAW borders on the insane. Is your enemy crouching behind a car? Blast out the tires, dropping the car six inches, exposing his head. Blam - no more bad guy.

Deliberate pacing includes long and dramatic quiet hunks as you sneak from cover to concealment towards your objectives. The action comes in large doses, mainly because enemy soldiers will react to hostilities and combine forces against you, effectively siphoning an entire zone of patrols when you decide to poke your head into the hornet’s nest and make trouble.

Sadly, your buddies aren’t nearly as smart. You’ll fire rounds at the enemy and epithets at your squad-mates who’ll sometimes refuse to take orders, often neglect to take cover and very occasionally stroll in front of you while you're firing. Our favorite moment came after ordering a teammate to unleash hell on an Abrams with his anti-tank rocket. He did - from point-blank range - waxing himself in the process.


 
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Genre: Shooter
Release date: May 3, 2006
Published by: Ubisoft
Developed by: Grin
Min system requirements: P4 2.0GHz or equivalent, 1GB RAM, 5GB HD space, 128MB DirectX 9.0c video
Recommended system: P4 2.8GHz or equivalent, 1.5GB RAM, 256MB DirectX 9.0c video card
Features: Ageia PhysX card support, eMagin 3DVisor support, widescreen
8 GREAT
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