GRAW 2 on its way -- Assassin's Creed waits until late 2007
by Nick Doerr 
{ Oct 25th 2006 at 4:00PM }
All right, I'll be honest -- I did play GRAW online multiplayer on the 360. I'll be honest again: I don't like FPS and I don't much care for online multiplayer. With that in mind, understand that I didn't like GRAW at all. Just a personal preference; I know many, many people like it a lot. So, when we read that Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 was taking the release slot of Assassin's Creed (4th quarter of fiscal year... probably around February) as well as Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. Basically, this means we can expect those two titles any time after March of '07 up to March of '08... whenever Ubisoft decides they need to "strengthen fiscal year 2007-2008"... basically whenever they need some money, then they'll release these games. That's kind of annoying, but it's business. Anyone bent out of shape? Ubisoft just replaced two high-profile titles with the sequel to a (subjective alert) mediocre FPS! It bends us out of shape. We want some stealthy killing with things other than high-powered rifles and lobbed grenades. Just for the record... Tom Clancy, stop. Personally, I'm sick of seeing your name tacked on to any modern/post-modern war game. Your plots are easy to generate, too (go down to #4).
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sonic Chang 604 435 3768 (Wii fanboy for life) @ Oct 25th 2006 7:01PM
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Chacron @ Oct 25th 2006 8:17PM
Mediocre FPS? do you mean resistance: fall of man? because as far as im aware Ghost Recon is a third-person shooter, do you get payed to write these articles? Even if you hadnt played ghost recon (which you state you have) you only have to look at screenshot to "discover" that it is in fact a third-person shooter.
Please get your facts right.
JJ @ Oct 25th 2006 8:42PM
Chacron... a shooter is still a shooter whether its first or third person or a run and gun or tactical. At its core its still a shooter.
NBA and Madden are both sports titles right?
Dont ya think you're getting a little bent outta shape over semantics?
ndoerr @ Oct 26th 2006 2:13AM
@ Chacron -- no, I definitely played it and perhaps it was the setting the owner of the 360 had on, but it was definitely in first-person mode. At least, that's how I remember it. And how exactly does my pay relate at all to this question?
And heck, http://www.ghostrecon.com/it/graw_pc_demo_2.jpg ... that looks pretty first-person to me.
insane_cobra @ Oct 26th 2006 6:43AM
The Xbox 360 version isn't an FPS, the others are.
And a shooter is a shooter, but a shooter isn't necessarily an FPS. Playing from different perspectives results in radically different experiences, even if it's the same game being played.
Rockwallaby @ Oct 26th 2006 9:13AM
online play is first person
Strike Man @ Oct 26th 2006 2:21PM
You can swap between first and third-person views on the X360 version of GRAW ("real-time perspective change" and all that jazz), but the game was obviously meant to be played in third-person.
Konchu @ Oct 30th 2006 3:22PM
I understand why Ubisoft would do this. They learned the hard way when they launched Beyond Good and Evil, and Prince of Persia(cant remember the one)at the same time as some heavy hitters and the rest is history.