Sure, I also enjoyed Freedom Fighters. That game was best with around three squad mates. At that point, I did about half of all the damage and my squad mates did the rest. With eleven running around, it didn’t matter much what you did yourself. They should have limited their squad to around four guys, just like Republic Commando.

It certainly is worth getting, the primitive almost there Ragdoll Physics, The Chatter between your Squad Mates and the pleasure of finally mastering the really hard bit of the game (Escaping the shop about the go boom). Nothing is more manly that Pistol Whipping 8 Robots in a row in 4 seconds.

An awesome SW game. Best thing about the game? The non presence of any generic Jedi.

Maybe I’ll take a look at it (After I retry the demo ;)

I’m also going to look for a demo of Freedom Fighters, as I’ve heard good things.

Fully patched up with the add-ons [Desert and Island Thunder] it is perhaps my favorite game of all time and one I still go back to now.

You just approach every fight with your brain.
It has these stunning moments where maybe you set up an attack using a full squad on an enemy encampment which you can approach how ever you want based on the geography, there’s no set positions that the game makes you play; a sniper here, an attack screen here, ambush element there.
The AI is awesome, it never lets you down.
You let rip and all of a sudden your team is pouring bullets into the camp and one of your dudes fires a 203 grenade launcher into the mess which makes the bad guys run right into your ambush element [made up of 2 guys one with an M60].
Or you’ll painstakingly [using move and cover tactics] fight your way through a mall in Moscow come out the other end still fighting and realising you’re having a scrap on the steps of the Kremlin with tanks coming across red square.

It’s an awesome game
When they dumbed everything down in later GR games it was heartbreaking.
Where later GR games had you use the other team [singular] as some kind of auto turret; Ghost Recon 1 was the perfect squad shooter.

Mind you, it’s only since I bought it for a second time about six months back that I began to appreciate it, rather than just play and forget. It’s slick beyond belief, and all the features feel like they’ve had a lot of time poured into them. Some of the battles are the sort that leave you gasping for breath at the conclusion and the burning desire to exit the program and have a nice lie down somewhere for a little while.

Oh, and the music was quite brilliant as well. Still one of the best scores I’ve heard, bar the barking Russian choral music in Freedom Fighters perhaps…

I’ve just picked this up, only played the first five minutes or so, but this was what struck me the most. The militaristic, percussive take on Duel of the Fates pleasingly reminds me of TIE Fighter’s wonderful midi Imperial March et al rejigs, skewing them all off into Soviet heroic pomp, which perfectly complemented the game’s perspective on the Empire.

TIE Fighter. There’s a game crying for a sequel with all of the twenty first century’s latest rendering technology to power it. Bonus points for keeping the camp German officer from ‘Allo ‘Allo as your C.O.

My favorite part has always been the end where *SPOILER* your squad loses a member *SPOILER* and you cannot do anything about it. I was major pissed at that point. That’s when I realized, now that’s a good set piece of both action and writing.

I so hope for a sequel.

Oh and yeh Republic Commando is … I would say the Shooter equivalent of Under Siege (Seagal Movie), It’s not A-List stuff but it’s certainly worth a trip. It also has practically NOTHING to do with Star Wars. I say that as…a huge Star Wars fan I’ve read about 20 books, played the D6 Pen & Paper RPG etc…(Disclaimer : I did not like Ep1, 2 and 3…I’m not one of THOSE Star Wars nerds lol..well Ep 3 was ok :P)

Space, Out!