GRAW2 Thread - Arrange games here too

TriedandTested · 10 Mar 2007 at 11:45

Sorry for my mate talking a load of rubbish on the headset last night...next time i play i'll make sure it's just me on the xbox.

McDaniel · 10 Mar 2007 at 12:19

cheets64 said:
McDaniels going down for his sly moves in PGR 3

Still hold that grudge? Remember you started it

Mlingard · 10 Mar 2007 at 13:02

I am looking to buy either crackdown or GRAW2 and i cant afford to get both so which one do you think i should get ?? i only have gears of war at the mo so you can see i dont normally play many war games but i did like the GRAW2 demo but i havent played the crackdown demo .

NokkonWud · 10 Mar 2007 at 13:10

I would go for GRAW2 if you're willing to play Multiplayer, the SP on Crackdown and GRAW2 appears short, however, beyond the story on Crackdown there is nothing left to do, but on GRAW2 there is an extensive list of multiplayer modes.

Mlingard · 10 Mar 2007 at 13:19

I was swaying more towards GRAW2 and yes i would play multiplayer but not that well knowing me

, i think i will get this tomorrow and play some single player first before i get killed loads of time on multiplayer .

Logsi · 10 Mar 2007 at 13:21

Mlingard said:
I was swaying more towards GRAW2 and yes i would play multiplayer but not that well knowing me , i think i will get this tomorrow and play some single player first before i get killed loads of time on multiplayer .

Yeah GRAW2 is the one to go for, bought both on the passed thursday and even though Crackdown is very fun theres no substance or story to it.

GRAW2 is amazing.

Hope this makes your decision easier!

Josh

wiiija · 10 Mar 2007 at 13:22

Sorry if I'm being dumb here, but how on earth do you get respawns to work on co-op? me and my son play co-op games on the same machine (GOW, R6 etc), for some reason even when making sure respawns are set on we dont respawn!

Sure I'm missing something somewhere.We like the game but keep returning to R6 for the above reason.

Kreeeee · 10 Mar 2007 at 13:55

Again, anyone know how to get the bous map?

TriedandTested · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:19

Kreeeee said:
Again, anyone know how to get the bous map?

'Nowhere'? Yeah, it's on the xbox live menu...you have to create a ubisoft account there and then download. About 200mb.

Wrathamon · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:19

Kreeeee said:
Again, anyone know how to get the bous map?

Err its on the main menu of the game:

Campaign
Multiplayer
Exclusive Map

Guess which one

Then it gets you to create a ubisoft account ... and then lets you download 'Nowhere'

That's how I did it anyway!

roboffer · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:36

Mlingard said:
I was swaying more towards GRAW2 and yes i would play multiplayer but not that well knowing me , i think i will get this tomorrow and play some single player first before i get killed loads of time on multiplayer .

Id agree that GRAW2 would be better to pick up that Crackdown, as the last GRAW was very popular on here and this will be too. Play it for the next few months with everyone and if and when it dies down think about looking at Crackdown.

cheets64 · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:47

McDaniel said:
Still hold that grudge? Remember you started it

Na

NokkonWud · 10 Mar 2007 at 15:02

Kreeeee: The option is on the first screen to download the new map. It's under the option 'Exclusive Map'.

Mlingard · 10 Mar 2007 at 16:29

roboffer said:
Id agree that GRAW2 would be better to pick up that Crackdown, as the last GRAW was very popular on here and this will be too. Play it for the next few months with everyone and if and when it dies down think about looking at Crackdown.

Defo going to buy it tomorrow now and having played the demo it looked great gfx wise

and there wont be a shortage of players on xbox live playing it now

.

dannyjo22 · 10 Mar 2007 at 16:49

Act 2 is pretty good, about the right length. Last section of the act is great. There should though be 5-8 acts of this length in a £40 game imho.

Gears was short but this game is shorter.

I also stopped using the heavy artillery back up, purely because it's too easy if you use it. This game does not deserve the 9.1 ign gave it. 6-7 tops.

It looks nice enough, the story is dull an uninteresting. If GRAW you was more an escort for the heavy artillery. How it should be, picking off the men and tanks to allow the convoys to proceed. In this you can leave your men at the start at use one tank to walk through the level. I've played the whole of act 2 without dieing.

They have included a medic who up's the amount of patch ups to 5 from 2. You dont need him. The team AI rarely die either. You can stick them behind the masses of cover and just have a grenadier and anti tank man and a rifle man and just keep pointing for them.

I adored GRAW. The SP game was tough. They have added nice new touches with the hold in of the RB to look down from the drone or to view from say the tank perspective. This though should not have been a full £40 game. £29.99 or even £24.99 for what is a half game and new multi player.

I cant recommend MP graw highly enough, but the same token I cant recommend you stay away enough if you buy this for SP because of the first one.

Kreeeee · 10 Mar 2007 at 17:26

NokkonWud said:
Kreeeee: The option is on the first screen to download the new map. It's under the option 'Exclusive Map'.

Are you sure? I don't see it there.

Edit: ah, my profile takes a while to sign in. Once signed in it's there. Thanks guys.

dannyjo22 · 10 Mar 2007 at 22:44

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dannyjo22 · 10 Mar 2007 at 23:54

Good games guys n gal. Geez how many maps have they got for MP!

They have certainly put the effort into the MP maps. Didnt even notice they dam was from R6 til nokkon said. So far I think thats my fav.

Manlove is my forte · 11 Mar 2007 at 00:08

dannyjo22 said:
Post on how single player blows

This is why I am not paying for this game. I don't doubt that multi-player is good, but imo the game is not worth the £40+ price tag it has. I always felt this was graw 1.5 and your post seems to confirm this.

I also doubt that this game will have the multi-player life that the original had. When GRAW came out there was no other decent MP FPS games on the 360. Now there are loads.

dannyjo22 · 11 Mar 2007 at 00:28

Kronologic said:
This is why I am not paying for this game. I don't doubt that multi-player is good, but imo the game is not worth the £40+ price tag it has. I always felt this was graw 1.5 and your post seems to confirm this.

I also doubt that this game will have the multi-player life that the original had. When GRAW came out there was no other decent MP FPS games on the 360. Now there are loads.

Maybe your right on the MP but I think it will last. There is much much more variety this time. Their isnt the obvious choke points on maps either. Some fantastic effort has gone into the map Imho. Varied, much more snipe points than the obvious one per map. Its pretty well done.

As for the SP, I dont think i'm being harsh. I havent mentioned act 3 yet which is a joke. Two sections and thats it. About 40 minutes max of game time. I said how acts 1 and 2 where easy. So what do they do for act 3?

Give you 5 men instead of 3.

The final level of GRAW took me some time just to work my way to the building to kill the baddie. I looked at my stats at the end of the game, it gives you a nice list. Number of times wounded 3. Number of times team mates wounded 5. Bearing in mind a medic on the hardest level carries 5 medkits.

Number of bullets fired was about 3000.

I'm not FPS or TPS god, but i've never been so dissapointed with a sp game in my life. Yet its getting mega reviews. Gamespot said something like the SP game is over before it begins. Yet give it a 8.6 or something.

I shouldnt complain as much because I got it for MP but still it does RRP at £40. I would like to know how much disc space this game takes up. Anyone know how big this disc is?