Customer Reviews

Rogue Warrior

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

I want some of the stuff the other reviewers must be drinking because for them to walk away from this game and even consider giving this festering pile of dung anything more than one star let alone 4 or 5 they must be out of their minds.

First off, this is an extremely short game. It plays about 2 hours or so with no replay value.

Gameplay:
The AI is horrible, you run through linear maps through 8 missions, and there isn't too much to it. Expect most of the enemies to have their backs to you so you can easily kill them, expect no sound detection for the stealth so you can run around behind an enemy and he won't even notice, and expect to miss most of the shots you shoot given the shot detection is flawed. It's frustrating to play this game.

Multiplayer Gameplay:
The multiplay gameplay is horrid. You can only really play deathmatch and given how horrid this game is you can't even find people to really play with.

Graphics:
Horrible outdated graphics only add insult to injury.

Sound:
The main character curses (a lot) but besides that nothing is too great about this game.


Seriously, this game is horrible. Please at the very least consider checking review sites before buying anyone this as a gift. The average metacritic review is 3.6/10 and most review sites barely give this anything over 1/10. It's a horrible game and I wish I had waited for the reviews to come out before I ordered it. Consider yourself warned.

Remember back in the 90's when every celebrity had to have a video game? From Tim Allen's Power Tool Pursuit to Shaq-Fu, these games sucked and obviously tried to bank on the celebrity status to move the games to the fans. That is what Rouge Warrior is like, a retro dollar bin game coded by first year computer science interns.

I was looking forward to this game. I liked most of the Rogue Warrior series (When Dick wrote with John Weisman) and Bethesda Games are normally top notch. But this one slipped though the creative QA process. Here are a few of my observations; The enemies are stupid. Their backs are turned most of the time and I can clomp up to them (no stealth) and do a kill move which is a cut scene to a poor graphic close up shot. There is no health status bar, no character development, the weapon action is just sad. I can shoot someone with a silenced .45 @ 50 yards and score a one shot kill yet I can empty a nearly a full clip into an enemy in the same room and they are still standing. Oh and grenades? Yeah they do not work hardly at all.

Bottom line: Man does this game suck. Certainly gets my vote for the worst of 2009. I would only buy this if:
- You like Demo Dick so much, that you have to have everything with his name on it
- You collect crappy games and this would look great next to Outpost
- You like to hear folks say the F word because although Rogue Warrior is a crappy game with the controls and playability of a Tofu sword, Demo Dick has to cuss alot to show that he does not listen to orders and is his own one man A Team without the cool van.

Then I would buy it used, since you can guarantee a used disk will not be played much...

I ordered this in July because it was hyped up to be the greatest game coming out. I was terribly mistaken in getting this one. First off, the game seems to concentrate more on shock treatment than playability - extremely excessive and unnecessary language - and the "kill" feature shows a lot of violent ways to kill someone with a knife. If only they put that much emphasis on the game mechanics. It is extremely linear and there aren't a lot of options to choose from in how to play the game. One moves from room to room and kills everyone. That's it. No thought process, no alternate paths to the goal (like Splinter Cell). Buy Splinter Cell or Call of Duty Modern Combat 2 if you want a good military shooter game. Don't but this one.

Ok, first off...It's a MATURE GAME...so yes...there will be curse words! lol

Second...OMG...I beat it in about 2 hours. I rented it, thank god! However, I still feel like I wasted my money just doing that.

Could've been a good game.....but like I said....2 hours!!! I couldn't believe it when the credits came up!!!

I first heard of this game simply by chance one night when a commercial came on. I have read several of Marcinko's novels as well as his biography. He is the real deal, a tough as nails operator. For those that don't know Marcinko, he is the real life creator of the Navy's elite counter terrorism unit SEAL Team 6.

So I didn't give much thought to pre-ordering the game.

GAMEPLAY:
To start out, the game is short... really short. I took me four hours on the hardest difficulty setting to beat the game. Compare that to Modern Warfare 2 which I spent about ten hours playing on Veteran. I thought that was short. There are only eight missions all of which are pretty straight forward. There is no open space to explore during the missions. You go through one open door to the next open door with no way of getting lost and then the doors magically close behind you just like the days of Doom.

Probably the worst part about the game is the enemy AI. I have never seen a game where the enemies are so useless. They always hide with there backs to objects even if what they are hiding behind is a thin I-beam which offers no concealment. Sometimes they see you, they aim their rifles at you, and then don't fire because you are in a different room or behind a window. Finding the enemies isn't very difficult since they are displayed on the map in corner of the screen. It even shows their alertness levels.

One thing they seemed to make a big deal about is the kill moves. You walk up behind an unsuspecting enemy and press the kill button. The camera switches to third person and you get to watch Marcinko jam his knife into various parts of the enemy's anatomy. Definitely, a nice feature but it comes at a cost. If another enemy sees you while performing a kill, he starts shooting, and you get to watch Marcinko continue the move until he is complete and then he drops dead. There is also no melee attack. The only way to use the knife is the kill move. Having the option to quickly stab/slash an enemy is helpful when your gun runs dry and an enemy is right next to you and there are more guys shooting at you from a distance.

For some strange reason Marcinko can only stand or crouch. He can't go prone and he can't jump. That just seems odd for a military game.

Since the game is set in 1986 don't expect any fancy toys on the rifles, like EOTechs or ACOGs, that you get in Modern Warfare 2. The weapon selection is very basic: MP5, M16, AK, Dragunov, etc. I didn't notice much difference in accuracy between using the sights versus shooting from the hip.


GRAPHICS:
The graphics are far from impressive. They look on par with FPS from about five years ago. It looks similar to computer games like R6: Rogue Spear. For example, when a fire breaks out it usually spreads to the ceiling which is normal but it doesn't look at all realistic. It looks like moving wall paper.

When the video's play they always show you carrying an MP5 even after you switched it for a different gun.


AUDIO:
Well it does have one redeeming quality. Actor Micky Rourke does the voice of Marcinko. You get to experience Demo D's creative use of the F-word, a lot. He narrates the mini-briefing at the beginning of each mission. He also taunts the enemies when he gets shot by saying things like, "I'm gonna stick you like a pig."

The game definitely captures his personality nicely. The Admiral gives Dick an order. Dick ignores the order. Dick gets the job done.


MULTIPLAYER:
I'm afraid I can't comment on the multiplayer aspect since after beating the game I popped the disc out and went back to playing Modern Warfare 2. I just had no desire to play it any longer.


CONCLUSION:
This game could, no should, have been better. It is far too short and the enemy AI should have been better designed. This game looks like it was rushed into production and it shows.

If you are looking for a good military game, get Modern Warfare 2.

Had a lot of hype for this game but was let down by the length. It took me and hour and a half to beat the WHOLE game! awesome game with brutal takedowns but it cannot compete with modern shooters like cod MW2. multiplayer is a nightmare because no one plays it. I would buy this game again if it is like $20 because it was fun for a while but just too short.

When I first grabbed this, I was expecting a call of duty/splinter cell mix, a combo of stealth and fps combat. What came out was a painfully linear FPS that tries in vain to be a stealth shooter. Following the supposed exploits of the founder of SEAL team 6, you're dropped into North Korea to obtain information on a missile program being run by the DPRK. After your team is wiped out, you carry on by attempting to depopulate a small city with your knife and silenced pistol.

Graphics are barely tolerable. While the motif is captured nicely, and the ongoing day makes it almost feel like an episode of 24, so little was attempted with regards to graphics, which still manage to have a plethora of clipping issues and poor lighting effects. Detail is also substandard, and should have been a crown jewel given how small scope the levels are.

Audio is a combination of swears, slamming the officer corps, and whining about who's snafu the current issue is caused by. While this doggerel could have been saved by some switch up in tone or direction, I never came across one.

Gameplay is boiled down to stealth kill as many as you can, then do cover to cover combat to kill everyone else. The stealth aspect is awful, and your radar makes little if no sense for being essentially a SOLITON from metal gear. There's little else to mention, apart from vulturing every thing the enemies drop.

Overall, this was a colossal let down. Had it had more of a mission to mission feel, it probably would've turned out okay, but they apparently wanted a main character who spits nails and bleeds raw masculinity. Even this wouldn't have completely butchered the game if they hadn't made the character one dimensional to the point that you wouldn't be surprised if all of his lines devolved into "thog smash stinky gooks." Multiplayer is also a vestigal failure, with abysmal setup, uninteresting maps, and the classic problem of trying to find people who know the map better than you.

Campaign is short. Multiplayer never works because no one else is playing. All missions are exactly the same. 0 story throughout.

this is a terrible game. horrible graphics audio gamplay everything was cheaply done just do you self a favor ddont buy it i hope bethesda loses a lot of money or fires any one associated with making and relasing this game its that bad!!!!!!!

This game could have been more, seemed rushed. The over story line was too short. Got every achievement possible with a matter of 6 hours (minus the online game play ones) Even if you beat the game on its hardest difficulty you still have to play it two more times if you even want those achievements. I don't recommend this at all.