Before you automatically thumb this down, read up, because this game is broken on a base level.
I love Full Spectrum Warrior. It's one of my favorite tactics games ever. Ten Hammers would have beaten it but the mechanics have been utterly destroyed, and this is caused by one tiny change: Ten Hammers introduces something known as precision fire mode. You basically hold the right trigger (don't know what the key is for the PC), which then brings up a reticule. You aim it at an enemy, wait for a red dot to appear, and fire. This gives you a bit more of a "hands on" feel to the fighting and allows you to kill enemies behind cover using some skill, but it also makes you vulnerable for a short period.
And here's where the problem arises: in the first game, each of the team's abilities (M203 grenade launcher, suppression fire) were able to be done from the team leader's (TL) perspective. You gave him the order, then the respective soldier with the desired ability stepped out and did their thing. In this game, if you wish to use a specific ability, you must manually switch to the soldier and use precision fire to launch a grenade or suppress. This is all well and good, until you enter corner cover (which is by far the most common type). Then both the grenadier and the assault rifleman line up behind the TL who is the only one who's able to peek around the corner. So switching to the relevant soldier and holding the trigger brings up the reticule......which aims it directly at the wall. There is no way to move them to the corner to be able to aim and utilize their particular skill.
Needless to say, this completely breaks the game because two of your soldiers are effectively rendered unusable in the most common type of cover. I have tried every conceivable way to be able to use the M203 (and at times suppression fire.....sometimes it's possible, other times it's not) from behind corner cover to no avail. Now I've seen some questionable design decisions in games before, but it is inconceivable to me how this was missed for a game like this. It's like if Mario was made and they forgot to add the ability to jump. The name of the game is tactics. This flaw removes the ability to implement them.
I still think it's something I'm missing, but I've gone through the tutorial, have scrutinized walkthroughs on Gamefaqs, asked everywhere, have watched videos, and I've not seen it done once. It's not there. Which is a shame, as the rest of the game is great and there's many good additions on the first. But in the end, this game is broken and you've been warned: do not bother.
If someone wishes to tell me in the comments something that I don't know, I'm all ears.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2006
Platform For Display: Xbox
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