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Next Best Single Player Mission to HL2 Hey, this can run on a 32mb graphics card meaning if you have a high-end 64mb module or a 128mb you are going to be in for a good time. I ran it on a 256mb and it was astonishing. Nearly anyone with a somewhat recent PC can play this 1st person shooter and I am sure it will leave most happy that they did. Was it better than Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, as we have heard? Yeah, it is, but not by much, a margin maybe, but still anything that can live up to MOHAA surely can't be missed and COD:UO lives up to the hype. The concept is the same as MOHAA except that there is more action, more high-octane moments, a different type of enemy AI and a lot more going on in terms of what you can pilot and drive in the story, although not freely but as part of the story. The game play certainly has the Cinematic intensity that it claims including various set pieces like a train bombing run, a lighthouse demolition, the Soviet offensive, all stunning to boot. It is not however HL2 graphics quality or anything close, but does offer a vast improvement over MOHAA, so in that respect is quite good, just nowhere near cutting edge. However COD:UO does have very convincing camera jitters and spectacular smoky explosions. The textures let it down a small bit but the environments and maps are genuinely war like all the way through and can not be faulted. The enemy AI and your own team AI can vary between very helpful and not so helpful but this depends on if you do your job or not. It is actually quite reliable. However, when your team take on an enemy the AI allows each to take multiple hits so that they eventually come into close combat and start hitting each other. This AI must be taken as is, even though slightly unrealistic, the game is not a war simulation but a 1st person war adventure and to be honest, does exactly what it says on the tin. So apart from the staged element, which actually ads to the game, it is more of an experience than a game you will turn to time and time again, however it is worth it for the experience of the single player mission alone. I can not fault it much except to say that not enough air strike missions, weapons realism is not fantastic and the game was a little shorter than MOHAA (this is a 3 day game span) but to be honest I am only cribbing. The pandemonium of war is all here in a spectacular fashion because the story is a winner as you play a mini version of BAND OF BROTHERS as part 1 and then a mini version of ENEMY AT GATES in part 2. So WOW! However when a new war simulation like OPERATION FLASHPOINT comes out for high end cards I know we will have the true war winner. Please bring on the real war simulator! Pros: - Play the two films mentioned above. - Best new war game and 2nd best 1st person shooter. - Awesome war atmosphere. - Smoky explosions. - Can run on a 32mb card! Cons: - 3 day lifespan. - Weapons are not so realistic. - Graphics are not 128mb worthy. - We really need a new Operation Flashpoint with map editor!