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That's GeForce Ti-4600 Graphic Card, released over 2 years ago. I can't put everything on high, but the game ran smoothly with the auto-detect the game did on my system.

\The biggest thing I love about this game is the draw distance. If you play any game and say, "Oh look at how beautiful those fogs covering up the distance are...", well, you won't be seeing much of that here.

Sniping is brought up to a new level with this game. Any other game, long distance is about 100 meters. This...is 10 times that distance. Using your binoculars aren't novelty item. You don't have to squint to see if what you're seeing through your sniping scope is an enemy or just a graphical glitchy-blob. Non of that. You zoom in, you can clearly see your enemies from far, faaaar away. It's a lovely feeling to be standing in one island and snipe someone on the other island a kilometer away, and watch him fall from the bridge he was walking across and into the water. Sweet.

But the game's not all about outdoors. There's plenty of actions inside bunkers, warehouses, and cave systems. The graphic engine does all of them very nicely, and without any of them annoying load times between the transition that you might see on lesser engines. Oh, and there's the complementary rag doll physics that's pretty much a requirement for any self respecting FPS game.

The AI doesn't leave much of an impression. Sometimes they're tough (unfairly so...they have perfect accuracy while traveling in a helicopter or in a boat), and other times they leave you wondering why they went right past you without shooting you. Suffice to say they do their job.

The gripes.

Driving - There's no emergency brake. No, correction...there no brake at all. You go forward and backward and...that's it. In between is what seems to be neutral gear, because when you're on a slope...your car rolls down. I've lost so many bugees and humvees that way. Would it be too much of a hassle for the car maker to install brakes?!

Documentation - you get this 12 page flip book that's inside the CD CASE. Nothing else. Was there an online documentation? Don't know, don't care. I feel a good manual is a MUST in any game.

That's it. Lots of pluses, few minor gripes.

Well, even though I have not finished, I am past half way done, I wanted to let people know what they are really in store for if they are considering buying it.
First the graphics. Up to this point in time, my system, P4 2.26, 512 ram, Radeon 9800 pro 128mb, has been able to run every game out there with all the graphics settings cranked way up. So I am used to very detailed objects, and such. Not with this game. I have all the settings at medium, except for water quality which is set to very high. Those are the default settings. The outdoor levels, the island graphics, the water, the trees, basically everything outside looks amazing. Very good even with the graphic settings at medium. Totally cool. However, the indoor levels, is like playing something from five years ago. It still looks pretty good, but in order to really get the incredible detail with the lighting and everything else the hype is all about, you will need a ridiculous machine. The read me file suggests a 3 ghz processor, and at least 1024mb ram. Just to see what it was like, I cranked the settings all the way up, and the detail was incredible. However, with my system it was not very playable. So, although it still does look real good, if you don't have the system, your not truly going see what this new technology can really do.
As far as the story, its used. Nothing original. Its different in its own way, but nothing new.
The gameplay is excellent. The game is about as non linear as a FPS can get. The outdoor missions leave you multiple ways to get to your objective. You can drive, take a boat, take the high road, take the low road, take the long way, sneak through jungle, dive off a cliff and swim, it really is cool. The AI is no worse then any other recent FPS. The gunfights are a lot of fun. I would have to say it is as good as Halo. The indoor missions also pretty good. Although more linear then the outdoor missions, they aren't too bad.
I have to say, this game has me hooked so bad, I'm contimplating building a new machine with a 3.4 ghz, and 2gb ram. It is also pretty long. I have got to be at least fifteen hours into, and I don't think I'm too close to finishing. Altogether, an excellent game, if you got the machine, very excellent.

This game really gets away from the mundane Doom-esque games that require no brainpower other than switching weapons. Although it is FPS (like doom) tactics are much more important (ie. dropping to the ground when an enemy hears your footsteps).

With all the FPS on the market, this one is a diamond in the rough.