A cool detail that they only showed once is that during one of the last missions in the game, you talk to a local who only speaks Arabic, and if you approach them with Bravo team, they won't be able to understand him because of the language barrier and he will run away, but if you approach with Alpha team, one of your squadmates will be able to talk to him and translate, giving you more details about the objective. The only way you'd know this beforehand was if you paid attention to the introductions of your squadmates at the start of the game and remember that one of them is from an Arabic background. It really doesn't change much, since it's a linear objective, but it was a nice detail.
Lemme tell as someone who has been in the Army for 10 years now. When media is more realistic and honest about the horror or war the more people are into it. People dont join the Marines from watching John Cena movies they join after watching Generation Kill. It sounds crazy but its true.
Usually because the kind of person who joins because they watched a John Cena movie is the kind of person who tends to wash out pretty quickly. People who go "I want to play call of duty in real life" don't really have the mentality fit for the discipline side of things, they just want to shoot stuff, and they find out really quickly that the Army isn't just shooting stuff.
I absolutely loved this game and its sequel, Ten Hammers. Two of my favorites from that generation of consoles and even to this day I still break it out every couple years to play it. I never found anything else quite like it, but Brothers In Arms was close.
@@trevorcmooreya brothers and arms hells highway is one of my fave games. It runs amazing on Xbox. It’s a shame. I can’t play the other ones though on Xbox one and I have the original Xbox disc for him 😢
Back in July I found Full Spectrum Warrior and Ten Hammers at a pawn shop for $2 a piece, complete. So I snagged them and forgot I had until right now. I'm popping this bad boy in after work! Great review 👏
One of my all time favourite gaming memories happened during the “RPG Alley” mission. Walking blindly around the corner, stepped directly into the path of an incoming rocket hitting the ground in front of my squad leader. The blast sent his body flying backwards into wall crumpling against it before falling to the ground. The rag doll physics of the havok engine combined with the slow motion effect the game had whenever a squad mate was wounded was absolutely incredible and realistic. Will always remember that moment.
game still holds up to this day. controls weren't janky. gameplay was a slow ramp-up from chill to tactical application of weapons to panic inducing flanks. felt like a precursor to gears of war in retrospect.
It is weird how this style of game died off almost completely, there was the Conflict: Desert Storm games, Brothers in Arms, Full Spectrum Warrior, and the old Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games and now I think of like Ready or Not and not much else
This is a game id never played. My dad loved these though. These videos are good with the development history and or lore dumps so keeps this series very intriguing due to the variety of the game quality
Oh the the nostalgia, I remember playing this game, played this so much that some stuff is burned in my head like the names Silverman, Shehadi, Anser Al Raid, etc.
I think you're the first one showing footage of the bonus mode. I was too lazy to get the Xbox out and upload anything, I don't think the PC version has it. I found the woodland uniform and wind effects neat back then.
I remember loving it. God, when the Bradley came up in the sequel in the tutorial level it felt so cool, I have so many good memories with these games. I still play them, I have them on the phone I use to emulate since I’m a console player and this is the best still out there for tactic s nerds.I remember my father buying it thinking it was a fps game and disliked it but.. I was watching the first scenes and I loved the art and characters(I was a kid) so when my father fell asleep I snagged the disc and started playing on my own. Aah, good memories
A record store near me dabbles in retro gaming and has a nice little collection. They have a factory sealed FSW for PS2 going for like $14 bucks. Tempted to grab it for the collection, but I know I'll end up opening it anyways.
Interesting video. I recently picked up a bundle of Craigslist and this game was included. I don't remember ever seeing this on the shelf at blockbuster. I've yet to boot it up but think I will after this video. Cheers
One thing this game does really well is audio foley, the clicks and clacks of the various actions your soldiers do really helps in making this game very immersive.
Am glad people still talk about this gem. I must say with this gameplay but with the graphics and tech today this would make a great comeback. Like 6 Days in Fallujah but RPG gameplay
I'd say this game was ahead of it's time but we've never gotten anything like it since. The only games I can think of that compares is the Advanced warfighter series. So glad I played this when it came out. Fond memories of hanging out with my dad playing Xbox.
I Remeber playing this game 20ish years ago when my father was in the military. Loved this game, I’ve missed it a very long time and just found out it’s on steam! This game and Conflict Desert storm 2 both hold strong place in my heart. Looking forward to playing this again but this time on PC 😎
It’s definitely a tough balancing act of trying to provide a fun product and not just a recruitment tool for training. It also sounds like a great addition to the library limited SRPG. I want to say some of the Conflict games also have some SRPG, but I never touched them in my life so… I think America’s Army is a bit more blatant as that was definitely meant for the latter, so I’ll be curious for your in-depth review to see what’s the difference is! I’m glad that the game was eventually used to help those who serve in actual battles. It’s easy to become desensitized when not participating in the military.
This game got me into Tactical shooters and there really hasn't been any other quite like this one. The banter adds so much character to the squads and the soundtrack is perfect. I went back to this game just last year and was really impressed by just how good everything still was.
You should check out Close Combat: First To Fight too. It’s pretty much this but it’s a fps still with the focus of your squad and very militant. Always been my favorite
Oh hell yeah I loved this game! And the graphics were insane for the time. Loved the gameplay, loved the characters(!), loved the realism. Great stuff all around.
Still have some moments in this game burned into my memory, some just impromptu movie moments where one squad would get hit it while moving, the camera panning in slow motion to see it happen. Then having to work a way to secure the soldier and transport them back to the medical vehicle for treatment. Really was top notch for that time period.
Just off the bat I want to say, I was in from 2014 to 2019 which is quite a while after this game came out, but when I was in, the squad leader had a handheld radio but not the big ASIP man pack as portrayed in the game. The ASIP was carried by a rifleman that followed around the PL (Platoon Leader). Biggest difference I noticed was that this game only portrays a single squad instead of the whole platoon which consists of 3 rifle squads, a weapons squad, and the Platoon Sergeant, PL, medic, and commo guy (radio man).
As a soldier in the US Army, I played the crap out of this game WAY before I joined the Army. After joining and able to compare to training aspects of this game, this game actually helped me understand the basics of how an Infantry Squad worked in real life, absolutely loved this game, I still play it on my Series X. There is a cheat code that unlocks the US Army Training Tool version for you to play. It felt too complicated at the time but it was interesting to see the difference between the retail game and the Training Tool.
Now this is a game I haven't thought about since I played it back in the day! I think I rented it from Blockbuster. I always felt like it was a sister piece to Brothers in Arms, just without the first person control.
They even have blank firing adapters for their drill 🤯 And it's back in the early 2000s? They don't need anything else to convince me that they tried to add realism to their game when I see the characters acting like they truly existed in the circumstances the campaign is about! I haven't played the game (I think I once stumbled on it while just browsing games in my local rental club) and sadly I don't think I ever will because I don't own an Xbox being a ps2 fan but damn THIS is how they managed to make an old game look modern in terms of realism without putting an emphasis only in graphics! (The scene I'm talking about btw is in less than a minute in the video and this is where I paused to write the comment... I expect that I'll be even more surprised and enthusiastic about the game as the video keeps playing because what I saw already raised the bar extremely high!)
Update: few seconds later in the video the soldiers clearly don't move their heads realistically in the cutscene shown BUT they follow eachother in typical drill fashion (Not sure if the soldier on the back is the player or the one in the front but the one in the back clearly avoids pointing the gun at his colleague while following which is very impressive for something from that era) - Anyone selling an Xbox? I think I need to play this myself 😅
@@GeorgeValentineIV You don't play as any of the squaddies in this game, you play as some amalgamate hive mind that gives them orders and can see what they all see but nothing more.
@@KopperNeoman You're right! I noticed that after I had pressed the play button again as it was mentioned in the video a bit later! I also found out that the game has come out for PS2 and PC which means I can play it when I initially thought I couldn't so I guess all that's left is for me to experience its beauty by myself
I remember buying this on PC when it first came out and being greatly disappointed because it wasn't the cool, Military style I was hoping for. Instead, I got a clunky, cover and maneuver sim that I felt became really repetitive very quickly. I actually found Brothers in Arms to be a much better game - partly, I think, due to the fact that it was also first-person and I could have an impact in a fight as much as my team was. I also really preferred the story and characters in that game to this one. I felt quite a lot of cringe when playing this, haha. It seemed like the typical, cheesy American characters I expected in a sitcom and I didn't sit too well with me personally. I was actually surprised to see you scored BiA lower than this in your list, so I might see if you have a video on that and watch it. Also, who remembers Americas Army? Now that was a great training tool/game to play. I absolutely loved how you had to sit various basic training tests before playing specific classes in the game.
Remember my brother picked this up and rarely played it. I tried a couple of times, but Big Red One, wolfenstein, even the conflict series pulled me away.
This was the game that made start second guessing video game reviewers. iirc X play said it was bad and my dad got me this game for my birthday. I was upset at first then i played it and loved it
When i was in like 5th grade my parents let me get FSW Ten Hammers. I thought it was gonna be some cool 3rd person shooter cuz i was a dumb kid who didnt read the back of the box. I was really put off by the fact you couldnt move your characters like a traditional shooter but i kept coming back to the game cuz i was really ensnared by its presentation. Before the Battlefields, Insurgency, and Armas of today i had this on Xbox with Ghost Recon Summit Strike 2 and Socom US Navy Seals on ps2. I loved all 3 but with FSW i never really experienced that kind of gritty realism before where characters are screaming and cursing as gunfire suppresses whole fireteams and creates this incredible tension where you have to act quick with your secondary squad to out maneuver your foe to support your team. Among the other games i had, this was the only one that really had that in it. Its on steam and still works but its port isnt very great. Often buggy enough that i had to restart some missions now n then but its still a great game. Thanks for making this vid
Totally forgot this game existed until now. While listening to this I searched my closet and found my cd book with all ps2 games and this is in there. I’ll have to buy a ps2
It's a shame we don't get games like this on the current generation of consoles. I miss games like this. Recently played Socom and it's a pretty cool game as well.
i remember playing for the first time i easily got discourage of the gameplay while thinking i could replacing another game. taking time to know the controls and the gameplay slowly gets me making fun of the squad run into their deaths then suddenly i was actually having fun and got me to think the strategy of this game 😂
Just relized they're high lowing the corners in this game. I played this as a kid almost 20 years ago and thats a unique detail that is never implemented in military inspired media.
I absolutely loved this game when it came out and I have no love for the realistic milsim genre -- this was just a fun game to play, especially coming off of the flood of scifi shooters that Gen 6 brought with it
I’m glad games like ArmA Reforger, Hell Let Loose, and Insurgency Sandstorm are on console. It’s sad that I haven’t had realistic games about the US Army, particularly regular infantry, since the Xbox/PS2 days. Full Spectrum, Conflict, Ghost Recon, and Rainbow Six. Those were the days. Now it’s all MARSOC and SEAL PR crap.
Remakes of this game, along with Medal of Honor (2010) and Medal of Honor: Warfighter on Unreal Engine 5, are an absolute necessity-we absolutely deserve it!
This was too hands off form me when it came out. Not being in control of the actual weapon wasn't what I wanted (which is why I liked Brothers in arms, which sort of combined both, fps and tactical). I'd definitely try this again now that I've aged a bit and have a bit more patience. Also the actual game that the US army did 100% endorse was Americas Army. It even had the US army logo on the title screen.
Whatever officer said “The game is fun but lacks training value” clearly never played it with Zero knowledge of Infantry Tactics. Maybe he would be right if a Team Leader (SGT) or Squad Leader (SSG) used this but for the fuzzy Private fresh out of basic that still hasn’t grasped how to coordinate as a member of a team or squad, this would be the perfect game for them along with the Brothers In Arms Trilogy. These games have some really good training value for the bare basic fundamentals and understanding of how the infantry works in combat.
I recall having read some time ago that the main reason for its undoing as an Army training tool was the Battle of Fallujah and the resulting shift in tactics for urban warfare.
This and Desert Storm were my uncle and I’s favorite OG xbox games. Countless late nights
That sounds so fun man.
I hope that with the remakes/reboots lately that those games get the same love
@@jaimegarza1472 theyre from a different time. I doubt it.
Shellshock never got a remaster so... 🤣
@noconnection1839 true but man would be a great to see. The first shellshock was good too. The second wasn't .
I would rent Desert Storm over and over again. I had a PS2 though so I had never even heard of Full Spectrum Warrior until seeing this video
A cool detail that they only showed once is that during one of the last missions in the game, you talk to a local who only speaks Arabic, and if you approach them with Bravo team, they won't be able to understand him because of the language barrier and he will run away, but if you approach with Alpha team, one of your squadmates will be able to talk to him and translate, giving you more details about the objective. The only way you'd know this beforehand was if you paid attention to the introductions of your squadmates at the start of the game and remember that one of them is from an Arabic background. It really doesn't change much, since it's a linear objective, but it was a nice detail.
Lemme tell as someone who has been in the Army for 10 years now.
When media is more realistic and honest about the horror or war the more people are into it.
People dont join the Marines from watching John Cena movies they join after watching Generation Kill.
It sounds crazy but its true.
Ditto. I enlisted in the Army after Restrepo came out in 2010. I was a late enlistee (joined at 23).
The kind of man who is fooled by propaganda isn't the kind of man who lays his life on the line for high principles, after all.
Usually because the kind of person who joins because they watched a John Cena movie is the kind of person who tends to wash out pretty quickly. People who go "I want to play call of duty in real life" don't really have the mentality fit for the discipline side of things, they just want to shoot stuff, and they find out really quickly that the Army isn't just shooting stuff.
Yeah you need to join the Marines for that@@WoobooRidesAgain
Does the urge to re-enlist ever go away? I hate the fucking Army.. But I miss my beloved Infantry.
I absolutely loved this game and its sequel, Ten Hammers. Two of my favorites from that generation of consoles and even to this day I still break it out every couple years to play it. I never found anything else quite like it, but Brothers In Arms was close.
I agree. Would love if they switched settings for future entries.
Full spectrum WW2.
Brothers in arms modern combat .
@@trevorcmooreya brothers and arms hells highway is one of my fave games. It runs amazing on Xbox. It’s a shame. I can’t play the other ones though on Xbox one and I have the original Xbox disc for him 😢
Back in July I found Full Spectrum Warrior and Ten Hammers at a pawn shop for $2 a piece, complete. So I snagged them and forgot I had until right now. I'm popping this bad boy in after work! Great review 👏
$2 is an insanely good price!
One of my all time favourite gaming memories happened during the “RPG Alley” mission. Walking blindly around the corner, stepped directly into the path of an incoming rocket hitting the ground in front of my squad leader. The blast sent his body flying backwards into wall crumpling against it before falling to the ground. The rag doll physics of the havok engine combined with the slow motion effect the game had whenever a squad mate was wounded was absolutely incredible and realistic. Will always remember that moment.
Blast from the past, i love this game, totally forgot it till now
This was so fresh when it came out. Completely new style of game and I loved it.
When I was in the military, I was the smart-ass gun nut comedian, so the rest of my section had to develop more complex personalities
I remember seeing this game in the game magazines back in middle school. The graphics looked stunning back then.
game still holds up to this day. controls weren't janky. gameplay was a slow ramp-up from chill to tactical application of weapons to panic inducing flanks. felt like a precursor to gears of war in retrospect.
It is weird how this style of game died off almost completely, there was the Conflict: Desert Storm games, Brothers in Arms, Full Spectrum Warrior, and the old Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games and now I think of like Ready or Not and not much else
This is a game id never played. My dad loved these though. These videos are good with the development history and or lore dumps so keeps this series very intriguing due to the variety of the game quality
Oh the the nostalgia, I remember playing this game, played this so much that some stuff is burned in my head like the names Silverman, Shehadi, Anser Al Raid, etc.
I think you're the first one showing footage of the bonus mode. I was too lazy to get the Xbox out and upload anything, I don't think the PC version has it. I found the woodland uniform and wind effects neat back then.
I remember loving it. God, when the Bradley came up in the sequel in the tutorial level it felt so cool, I have so many good memories with these games. I still play them, I have them on the phone I use to emulate since I’m a console player and this is the best still out there for tactic s nerds.I remember my father buying it thinking it was a fps game and disliked it but.. I was watching the first scenes and I loved the art and characters(I was a kid) so when my father fell asleep I snagged the disc and started playing on my own. Aah, good memories
A record store near me dabbles in retro gaming and has a nice little collection. They have a factory sealed FSW for PS2 going for like $14 bucks.
Tempted to grab it for the collection, but I know I'll end up opening it anyways.
Interesting video. I recently picked up a bundle of Craigslist and this game was included. I don't remember ever seeing this on the shelf at blockbuster. I've yet to boot it up but think I will after this video. Cheers
This was my favorite game back in the day. It was way ahead of its time.
Thank you for uploading this game, this was my childhood ❤️
i was hooked on this game all day long! especially with the military mode (or how its called) when you could go into houses etc
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I really liked this game back in the day
One thing this game does really well is audio foley, the clicks and clacks of the various actions your soldiers do really helps in making this game very immersive.
Am glad people still talk about this gem. I must say with this gameplay but with the graphics and tech today this would make a great comeback. Like 6 Days in Fallujah but RPG gameplay
This game was amazing, I love the tactical approach, it was and still is different from anything out there
First To Fight was amazing too.
I'd say this game was ahead of it's time but we've never gotten anything like it since.
The only games I can think of that compares is the Advanced warfighter series.
So glad I played this when it came out. Fond memories of hanging out with my dad playing Xbox.
I Remeber playing this game 20ish years ago when my father was in the military. Loved this game, I’ve missed it a very long time and just found out it’s on steam! This game and Conflict Desert storm 2 both hold strong place in my heart. Looking forward to playing this again but this time on PC 😎
I remember buying this as a kid when it first came out. I'm 36 now but I still remember this game and it's sequel very well
It’s definitely a tough balancing act of trying to provide a fun product and not just a recruitment tool for training. It also sounds like a great addition to the library limited SRPG. I want to say some of the Conflict games also have some SRPG, but I never touched them in my life so…
I think America’s Army is a bit more blatant as that was definitely meant for the latter, so I’ll be curious for your in-depth review to see what’s the difference is!
I’m glad that the game was eventually used to help those who serve in actual battles. It’s easy to become desensitized when not participating in the military.
Old memories have just been unlocked!!! Nice dude nice
This game got me into Tactical shooters and there really hasn't been any other quite like this one. The banter adds so much character to the squads and the soundtrack is perfect. I went back to this game just last year and was really impressed by just how good everything still was.
Love all of the work your putting in to reviving gaming's golden years. Nostalgia overload, thanks for what you do my man ❤
Thank you for watching!
Absolutely loved this game. I remember a friend and I going through this game co op back in the day.
This and the socom games got me into tactical shooters and RPGs!
You should check out Close Combat: First To Fight too. It’s pretty much this but it’s a fps still with the focus of your squad and very militant. Always been my favorite
I'll definitely check that one out soon!
9:27 a good fix for that would be to have the cursor free to move anywhere, but if you press a button then it searches nearby for something to snap to
I loved this game when it came out. Desert Storm also
Man i loved this game. When you got the ranger snipers…. Perfect
Oh hell yeah I loved this game! And the graphics were insane for the time. Loved the gameplay, loved the characters(!), loved the realism. Great stuff all around.
Love your style of journalism man! Got yourself a new subscriber! Keep it up!
I'm glad you like it! Thank you!
Great work friend, loving the growth!!
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying the content.
Great review.
Thanks!
I got the game at the flea market thinking it was a first person shooter I think I was 15 years old but dam I ended up loving it thanks for the upload
Holy shit I was looking for this game for years! Ty!
This game and brothers in arms hell Highway are two of my favorite shooter/strategy games
Looking forward to when the team at Insignia will revive this for online play!
Still have some moments in this game burned into my memory, some just impromptu movie moments where one squad would get hit it while moving, the camera panning in slow motion to see it happen. Then having to work a way to secure the soldier and transport them back to the medical vehicle for treatment. Really was top notch for that time period.
Loved this game and Brothers in Arms on original Xbox.
2 very good games! Except I played BiA on PC. Operation Flashpoint was another pearler.
Just off the bat I want to say, I was in from 2014 to 2019 which is quite a while after this game came out, but when I was in, the squad leader had a handheld radio but not the big ASIP man pack as portrayed in the game. The ASIP was carried by a rifleman that followed around the PL (Platoon Leader).
Biggest difference I noticed was that this game only portrays a single squad instead of the whole platoon which consists of 3 rifle squads, a weapons squad, and the Platoon Sergeant, PL, medic, and commo guy (radio man).
Just found this channel. Was hoping to see a Grabbed by the Ghoulies review
Might be on the list for an October review 👀
Coop on Xbox Live back in the day was an amazing experience. I miss the 6th gen man I loved military shooters. Games just aren’t made for me anymore.
I loved this and Brothers in Arms. It was cool to unlock the official Army version that had more squad members
That GTA 3 door texture so funny to me 😂
I played the shit out of this game.
When this came out, there where Kosovo War vets in the army that had experiences finding and guarding mass graves.
As a soldier in the US Army, I played the crap out of this game WAY before I joined the Army. After joining and able to compare to training aspects of this game, this game actually helped me understand the basics of how an Infantry Squad worked in real life, absolutely loved this game, I still play it on my Series X. There is a cheat code that unlocks the US Army Training Tool version for you to play. It felt too complicated at the time but it was interesting to see the difference between the retail game and the Training Tool.
Now this is a game I haven't thought about since I played it back in the day! I think I rented it from Blockbuster. I always felt like it was a sister piece to Brothers in Arms, just without the first person control.
I had this on disc when I was younger thought it was really cool
i remember the first trailer of this game i guess i'm old as fuck
loved this back in the day
I miss Pandemic so much
I will never forgive EA for ruining that amazing studio.
I have never bought an EA game after they shut down Pandemic
They even have blank firing adapters for their drill 🤯 And it's back in the early 2000s? They don't need anything else to convince me that they tried to add realism to their game when I see the characters acting like they truly existed in the circumstances the campaign is about! I haven't played the game (I think I once stumbled on it while just browsing games in my local rental club) and sadly I don't think I ever will because I don't own an Xbox being a ps2 fan but damn THIS is how they managed to make an old game look modern in terms of realism without putting an emphasis only in graphics! (The scene I'm talking about btw is in less than a minute in the video and this is where I paused to write the comment... I expect that I'll be even more surprised and enthusiastic about the game as the video keeps playing because what I saw already raised the bar extremely high!)
Update: few seconds later in the video the soldiers clearly don't move their heads realistically in the cutscene shown BUT they follow eachother in typical drill fashion (Not sure if the soldier on the back is the player or the one in the front but the one in the back clearly avoids pointing the gun at his colleague while following which is very impressive for something from that era) - Anyone selling an Xbox? I think I need to play this myself 😅
@@GeorgeValentineIV You don't play as any of the squaddies in this game, you play as some amalgamate hive mind that gives them orders and can see what they all see but nothing more.
@@KopperNeoman You're right! I noticed that after I had pressed the play button again as it was mentioned in the video a bit later! I also found out that the game has come out for PS2 and PC which means I can play it when I initially thought I couldn't so I guess all that's left is for me to experience its beauty by myself
I remember buying this on PC when it first came out and being greatly disappointed because it wasn't the cool, Military style I was hoping for. Instead, I got a clunky, cover and maneuver sim that I felt became really repetitive very quickly. I actually found Brothers in Arms to be a much better game - partly, I think, due to the fact that it was also first-person and I could have an impact in a fight as much as my team was.
I also really preferred the story and characters in that game to this one. I felt quite a lot of cringe when playing this, haha. It seemed like the typical, cheesy American characters I expected in a sitcom and I didn't sit too well with me personally. I was actually surprised to see you scored BiA lower than this in your list, so I might see if you have a video on that and watch it.
Also, who remembers Americas Army? Now that was a great training tool/game to play. I absolutely loved how you had to sit various basic training tests before playing specific classes in the game.
Probs better than 90% of modern games
Remember my brother picked this up and rarely played it. I tried a couple of times, but Big Red One, wolfenstein, even the conflict series pulled me away.
One of the best games I ever played. What a pity this never spawned more games except for one more.
Great video like always. You should cover ghost recon next
Ghost Recon is a great idea, I'll put it on the list!
Omg thanks thats game was one of my favorite
I played this in 2004 and i love it while i was in the military then.
Played this game a lot growing up. Yes I enlisted and was in the army for 6 years so i guess the recruitment ad worked.
This was the game that made start second guessing video game reviewers. iirc X play said it was bad and my dad got me this game for my birthday. I was upset at first then i played it and loved it
Hello and Welcome to Camp Xbox time to prepare for War
I wish they had made the sequel backwards compatible as well.
Love the bite-marks on the case
I used to have this game, good times.
When i was in like 5th grade my parents let me get FSW Ten Hammers. I thought it was gonna be some cool 3rd person shooter cuz i was a dumb kid who didnt read the back of the box. I was really put off by the fact you couldnt move your characters like a traditional shooter but i kept coming back to the game cuz i was really ensnared by its presentation. Before the Battlefields, Insurgency, and Armas of today i had this on Xbox with Ghost Recon Summit Strike 2 and Socom US Navy Seals on ps2. I loved all 3 but with FSW i never really experienced that kind of gritty realism before where characters are screaming and cursing as gunfire suppresses whole fireteams and creates this incredible tension where you have to act quick with your secondary squad to out maneuver your foe to support your team. Among the other games i had, this was the only one that really had that in it.
Its on steam and still works but its port isnt very great. Often buggy enough that i had to restart some missions now n then but its still a great game. Thanks for making this vid
It was my favorite game out there. I then had a glitch and couldn't progress any further.
Totally forgot this game existed until now. While listening to this I searched my closet and found my cd book with all ps2 games and this is in there. I’ll have to buy a ps2
That's awesome! It's always fun to rediscover old favorites.
I got both of these games and I love them it’s even in the Xbox store right now
It's a shame we don't get games like this on the current generation of consoles. I miss games like this. Recently played Socom and it's a pretty cool game as well.
I miss Pandemic.
Same here!
still one of the best tactics games ever made
So fun plus the sequel. I still have the physical cds for pc.
i remember playing for the first time i easily got discourage of the gameplay while thinking i could replacing another game. taking time to know the controls and the gameplay slowly gets me making fun of the squad run into their deaths then suddenly i was actually having fun and got me to think the strategy of this game 😂
i remember renting this from block buster back in the day as a kid
The secret vbs mode was dope. Pretty much Arma mode 😂.
I only got the chance to play the demo waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in 2005, never got a chance to play the full game
Just relized they're high lowing the corners in this game. I played this as a kid almost 20 years ago and thats a unique detail that is never implemented in military inspired media.
Great video :-)
Thank you!
I absolutely loved this game when it came out and I have no love for the realistic milsim genre -- this was just a fun game to play, especially coming off of the flood of scifi shooters that Gen 6 brought with it
Looks like Valkyria Chronicles, liked It.
Oh Shit, I never played these. But this is totally what SOCOM: TACTICAL ASSAULT was ripping off :P
If you haven't done it already, if you can find a copy of Spartan: Total Warrior, you have to try it!
I’m glad games like ArmA Reforger, Hell Let Loose, and Insurgency Sandstorm are on console. It’s sad that I haven’t had realistic games about the US Army, particularly regular infantry, since the Xbox/PS2 days. Full Spectrum, Conflict, Ghost Recon, and Rainbow Six. Those were the days. Now it’s all MARSOC and SEAL PR crap.
Remember the Nonsense that was the game Americas Army insane it lasted 20 years
Remakes of this game, along with Medal of Honor (2010) and Medal of Honor: Warfighter on Unreal Engine 5, are an absolute necessity-we absolutely deserve it!
This was too hands off form me when it came out. Not being in control of the actual weapon wasn't what I wanted (which is why I liked Brothers in arms, which sort of combined both, fps and tactical). I'd definitely try this again now that I've aged a bit and have a bit more patience.
Also the actual game that the US army did 100% endorse was Americas Army. It even had the US army logo on the title screen.
Whatever officer said “The game is fun but lacks training value” clearly never played it with Zero knowledge of Infantry Tactics. Maybe he would be right if a Team Leader (SGT) or Squad Leader (SSG) used this but for the fuzzy Private fresh out of basic that still hasn’t grasped how to coordinate as a member of a team or squad, this would be the perfect game for them along with the Brothers In Arms Trilogy. These games have some really good training value for the bare basic fundamentals and understanding of how the infantry works in combat.
I recall having read some time ago that the main reason for its undoing as an Army training tool was the Battle of Fallujah and the resulting shift in tactics for urban warfare.
I kinda wish they remade this game. I play mostly arma now to get that same fix, but imagine arma scale maps with this type of gameplay.