Full Spectrum Warrior (Xbox)

Well I haven't written any reviews here on dooyoo for a long time, so here we go... My Full Spectrum Warrior review. So what is Full Spectrum Warrior [FSW]. Well it’s a squad-based, tactical-action strategy game. If you listen to what the developers [Pandemic Studies] say you’ll quickly learn it was initially designed as a training simulator for the U.S. Army as a tool to reinforce Army doctrine and squad tactics amongst troops. But enough of the marketting spiel. You’d be basically right in thinking of FSW as a very detailed squad tactics training simulator, which the bright sparks at Pandemic developed into a ...

Full spectrum warrior is a modified version of what was a US army traning tool, a simulator designed to give out the nasic of modern day combat, it uses a style of play similar to that of the likes of command an conquer, you don't shoot people, you tell your guys to go here and there, from point to point. However you do set the region at which they would lay down fire. Its sounds very basic but the depth inside its control system is immense. At first it seems over whelming but the training nicely helps you into the game. Basically you have two fire teams, (squads of 4 men) Alpha and Bravo. You have to nabvigate your team round area's from objective to ...

Initially I was pleasantly suprised by this game being very much strategy driven, having expected something of a shoot-em-up (Conflict desert Storm Style). However as I played through the tutorial I became very annoyed with the 'gung-ho' things the soldiers in your squad constantly shout out. Every time you send your squad on a move, be it two meters or a mile they shout out things like 'let's go, move out' or 'alpha team let's rock'. This constant, repetative sound soon got to me and I was very annoyed with it... Another let down for me was that if even 1 of your men died you failed the mission! The actual game, however, is not too bad, ...