My ONLY Beef with GRAW
March 21st, 2006I love Ghost Recon on the 360; it’s a great game for sure. The graphics are incredible, the controls challenging and it has just the right balance of tactical gameplay and straight action. It feels crazy cool to snipe a solider, direct an apache strike and dodge a flurry of bullets in one fell swoop.
However, I do have a beef and I suspect that it’s going to be a beef I have with many games for the foreseeable future. My problem is with the lack of Halo2-like matchmaking in the Xbox Live implementation. Before I get into it let me thank the developers of the excellent gameplay, excellent lobby, excellent class system, excellent weapons and overall excellence of the online experience. But can a gamer just get some matchmaking with ranking PLEASE!
You can’t play more than one ranked game at a time (or you aren’t supposed to be able to anyway, there is a bug), and you can’t play with your friends as a squad (without being disconnected after EVERY match), so what’s the point? I find myself spending more time searching for games, waiting in lobbies, and running around with an unorganized squad more than I do getting in some quality time.
Ah well, it’s still a great game. Can we get some update love Ubisoft?
March 22nd, 2006 at 2:02 pm
That is serious g-to-the-hetto. MS should make a minimum standard for LIVE platforms that mirorr the Halo2 lobby system. Make what you want, just don’t make it less than Halo2 lobby style. I guess I understand why you can’t lock down a group of people and just annihilate everyone, that can be fustrating when you are on the team that has a cowboy that runs off, people who don’t speak english, or others that just don’t understand the concept of co-op. It shouldn’t be too hard to match one lobby matched with another lobby. If it is a game of random people, match them only with other random people.