Weird thing, I love this game.
I tend to replay old games that I really like (Painkiller for example) and this one is still with me.
Well, let's dissect this thing. I have a powerful machine so I play everything on "high" or "ultra-high" in the graphic department. So far - 2 years since downloaded on my PC - never had a freeze or a blackout. I've never ever had the need to use the ctrl+alt+delete thing. So I have to say this thing runs really smooth on the programming department.
First thing:
Learn to read a map. We all have internet, so get the maps online. Familiarize with map reading... C'mon, you wanna be a soldier? A soldier - even the dumbest one - must learn to read a map. Always have the map on your hand. Learn to flip from map to gun, gun to map, and so on. Know the zone you're dealing with. There's even maps with the diamonds and tapes locations, ready to download on your iPhone. So there's no excuses to not to know how to read a map... Unless you think you can go everywhere jus blasting your way like vin diesel, because that way, believe me, you'll die.
This is Africa, so there's rivers, valleys, gorges, mountains, deserts, savannahs and jungles. Trust me, AVOID the jungles. Don't believe the hype. Jungles suck. You wanna fight in the jungle and be rambo or something like that? Well, your trip, but you'll die faster than the easy chick in a terror flick. In the jungle you never see who's shooting at you, and while you lose time trying to find them, they'll be puting 5,10, 20, 30 rounds in your butt, and believe me, you'll die.
Better stay on the savannah (you always can see the enemy) and around the bushes (to get cover) - day or night - and stay clear from the roads. Roads always are dangerous (and that's for real war too). There's always technicals roaming the roads. You must be REAL good to confront a jeep coming at you at high speed with a .30mm machine gun blasting at you. Don't try it. Believe me, you'll die.
If you wanna learn your way in this game, try to move at night - C'mon, behave like real pros. Pros move at night and sleep at day, deep inside the bush (or in safe-houses like this game). You don't go strolling like you're in a mall or hood, showing yourself to snipers, RPG launchers or worst, mortar fire controllers that gonna blast you even before you can find them, or hide, or get cover... believe me, you'll die.
First part of the game, some nasty looking merc gonna show you the bolts and nuts of the game, how to fix cars, how to heal yourself, how to get armed, how to find arm dealers, how to find quinine (Hey, this is Africa not old USA, malaria is endemic, everybody have malaria and those who don't, sure they will), how to use your map, how to get safe-houses, how to find diamonds and tapes... And obviously, how not to get killed - because in this game, if you're not careful, if you don't think first, if you don't read a map correctly and if you think you can go chuck norris on everyone, believe me, you'll die.
If you wanna buy arms - good brand new ones, not the trash used by others - you need diamonds, this is the cash here. As the merc cynically puts it, money is useless even to clean your butt. Try to find diamonds, they are all around the zone, before beginning any mission. Find the maximum amount of diamonds so you can buy CRATES, crates are important. If you have the three type of crates (for primary, secondary and special weapon) you have the chance to stash different kind of guns in safe-houses, so your chances of living get bigger, because guns deteriorate fast in Africa and it looks like ALL weapons have seen decades of war - even the brand new ones - so you can find yourself in the enviable position of being surrounded, and ready to scram, and your damned old gun just blow in your face... And you'll have to confront 3 o 5 heavily armed dudes with just a machete. And believe me, you'll die.
Guns, guns, guns... OK. First of all, forget the AK! Kalashnikovs suck. Pros know that. Everybody knows that. And in this game, it's proven beyond redemption. Get a descent rifle. Get a German G3 automatic rifle or even better, get the humble long barrel pump-action shotgun (not the shorter one, that one sucks). The long shotgun is totally and definitively LETHAL at close quarters! And at medium distance, aimed at the head, is still totally and definitively LETHAL. You'll find that the hard way when you charge guys armed with shotguns - if you don't kill them fast, in close quarters, they will blast you with one cap to the face, and believe me, you'll die.
This point is important - a lot of people complains about this game, over certain and supposed "bad guys invincibility". A lot of guys wrote that "my bullets don't kill the baddies", "I gave him 20 bullets and he still killed me", "guns are useless, bad ones never die", "you need a whole magazine to kill a guy"...
Well, two things:
1.- You suck, you're just a bad shot and you never noticed it. You can empty a 30 bullet magazine on a moving target and not hit it once!
2.- Haven't you notice that except for the African dudes that go bare chest, most guys in this damned game wear bullet-proof vests?
You feel me? Yep, you got it. Don't waste your precious ammo and even more precious time (seconds are the difference between life and death in a skirmish) emptying your magazines on the body of an enemy. Always aim at the head, always the head. That's for real. Even a guy with 30 bullets in the body (but not the head) can lobe you a grenade almost post-mortem - or give you just the one final shot before leaving this world, and believe me, you'll die.
I've attacked 3 or 5 guys with just a silenced pistol, at night, and finished them all with one shot in the head each, one bullet, one dead, one bullet, one dead... But that was luck, because the moment they know they're being attacked, they quickly scram, locate you, surround you, shooting at you full auto. Or you change fast the weapon or you just run for cover, because you'll soon discover that all that Hollwood crap about a hero knocking heavily armed people with one pistol is just that, crap. Believe me, you'll die.
Other complaint I've seen is about how difficult is to drive a vehicle and read a map at the same time (I think some guys miss an auto-map on screen - a total unreal stuff). Have you ever tried to drive in an avenue full of cars and writing on your facebook at the same time? Don't try it - you'll be cleaning freeways with gangstaz and taking the bus for a couple of years. Well, same thing runs for this while driving and reading a map at the same time, at night, at high speed, in an unknown territory - you'll hit something, sooner or later. Keep it real, OK? Be thankful you don't hit a roadblock full of angry mercs, or a technical equipped with a blazing 0.50 mm machine gun... or worst, an RPG carrying dude ready to lobe it in your face... believe me, you'll die.
Now I remember, good piece of advice... When you drive at night, don't forget to kill your lights! Hit the "G" and you'll go almost unnoticed to the enemy, that's why my first advice was to learn to read maps. Know the territory. Know where to drive off road. Know where you are. Stop and check your map. You can move pretty fast that way (night time and no lights) and just stop and keep quiet when you see another vehicle approaching. If you're without lights and inside the bush, most of the time they won't see you. Other thing... One of the best tricks is to rush checkpoints at night, at full speed, no lights, and pass thru it (even run over some dumb slow enemy) and make it scot free, laughing... Well... Sometimes it works, sometimes not, specially if you hit a roadblock and lose speed, then - while you try to maneuver - you got shot, and shot, and shot... and believe me, you'll die.
What other complaint... Ah! The game is "boring" - Freakin' A is boring. War is boring. If you're not risking your life in pointless plans made by some stupid REMF far away from the front, in air conditioned offices, no danger involved... The rest of your day is eating and sleeping - but above all WALKING. In war you walk more than a Roman legionnaire. And in this game, boy, you'll walk your feet to sand. And that's for real. Remember good soldiers care more for their legs than their guns. Your legs move you to the action, and your legs extract your butt when push comes to shove and things get hairy - In this game, besides walking and planning (reading a map, doing reconnaissance, checking your escape route) you'll run like hell to survive, be it on a botched ambush (happens a lot) or a simple skirmish turned into a full battle against too many enemies... You'll just get the hell out of there! So be happy you have boring moments, because it means you don't have folks shooting at you - so you're still alive. The moment things get really funny, just one mistake, one dumb decision, or just pure chance (you didn't notice an enemy just behind you), believe me, you'll die.
Let's come back to the guns. As I told you, best gun for close quarters - if you ain't a good shot - is the shotgun, no question. Get the nearest you can to the enemy, know beforehand where everyone of them is (always do reconnaissance) and no matter they all tote AK - if you're fast - you'll clean the place in seconds, all the enemy FUBAR. On the other hand, the best gun for long distance is the sniper rifle (any). They solve a lot of problems. They make things easy for you. Work for the arm dealer and he'll bring new toys for you. Find most of the diamonds, and you'll get cash, but you'll find you don't have much stuff to choose - as I told you, don't take main missions still and don't take buddies jobs either - first find the diamonds (and tapes), take the jobs of the mysterious cell-phone dude (assassinations) and make errands for the arm dealer (convoy ambushes). For the assassinations the sniper rifle is the best - you don't have to deal with a bunch (sometimes a dozen) of badass mercs - but you have to take your time (boring for some) and wait to have your one clean shot. The ambushes for the arm dealer are the real FUN. Use IEDs. They simplify the job of confronting 2 technicals with 0.30mm machine guns each and a heavy truck in the middle, almost immune to light caliber rifle. Convoy always make the same circuit over and over (dumb thing but it's just a game - it would have been fun an always changing circuit). Just lay your 3 home-made bombs at some distance from each other and wait. If you laid them correctly and pushed the button at the right time, you'll blow the whole convoy to kingdom come... Just try to do it away from checkpoints or roads, because the explosion will attract a lot of attention, and in a matter of seconds, the perfect ambush can turn into an ugly and desperate full battle against too many enemies, and if you ain't lucky, or slow, or lose the nerve, believe me, you'll die.
Another trick: you got the diamonds, you got the guns, now buy good stuff. Get a silenced weapon. It's a must. Either a pistol or a sub-machine, but silenced. The trick is to shoot at the head and not in front of others. Start with the sentinels, they're always away from the group, or the ones that go for a pee, a smoke, or a cell phone call. Then finish the rest. One bullet to the head does the trick. Trust me. "Tack", dude hits the floor. After a silenced weapon, get a good support weapon: a machine gun, get the russky PKM. This one has around 200 bullets. It's your last resort weapon. Don't overuse it because it's THE weapon to confront too many enemies, or 1 technical, or 2 technicals, or 2 technicals plus too many enemies. Grenades and molotovs are supposed to take care of those many numbers, but these guys ain't fool like in another games, and they won't stick together waiting to be blown in masse. These shrewd buggers have a tendency to, when you lobe a grenade or molotov at them, to shout "grenade" and quickly SPREAD so you lose your grenade or molotov... And they will come at you, shooting full auto, from all sides, and believe me, you'll die.
So you have you primary weapon: a 12 gauge pump-action shotgun, or if you a real pro that can shoot a fly in the eye, a german G3. Don't use the silenced MP5 as you primary one - unless you're good and like go totally stealth - because it faithfully replicates the weak power of subsonic ammo, so it'll be like throwing 30 pebbles to the body of a bulletproof vest wearing merc coming at you pretty angry. Your secondary weapon could be a silenced Makarov, perfect to kill sentinels or rookies that stray too far from the herd, minimizing the number of the enemies. If your choice as primary is the MP5, then your secondary one must be a MAC10. A short burst to the head is lethal. And it doesn't vibrate so you just aim well and be pretty sure it kills. Special weapon is the PKM. Don't get loco with this one, this one too faithfully reproduces the horrible recoil of the real Russian one, so better try short burst, really short burst, or you're gonna fumigate all the sky and not kill a guy, except some bird above... and believe me, you'll die.
If I had something to add, I'll write later.
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Enjoyable for tacticians
I like this game since its tactical. It forces you to figure out its inner workings. The ai is pretty good as far as interactivity. The environment is well made. The weapons are enjoyable, especially the DLC weapons. however, this game is not without its drawbacks. For one thing, the graphics are actually too dark and unsaturated (the attached images are Photoshopped). The voice acting is rushed and awkward. Also, throwing grenades can't seem to work for me... the throwing animations are always off target.
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