The only reason I give this game 4 stars and not 5 is because of the difficulty of online play.

A few very fun aspects of the game:

-Awsome, engrosing story line.

-Good graphics, exellent effects. The graphics are good. Vehicle modeling is well done. Explosion and fighting effects are very well done.

-You can use any weapon you find. Need to blow up an armored personel carrier, use a diffrent rifle, or need more ammo? Pick what you need up off a dead enemy or fallen comrade.

-You can use any vehicle you find. As long as you are the commanding officer pressent you can use and order your men to use any vehicle you come across. On occasions you will even find yourself with the opportunity to steal enemy equipment and use it instead.

-You play a few diffrent characters throughout the original campaign. An infantry soldier, a Tank commander, A pilot, a special ops soldier. Its very enjoyable to play all the diffrent aspects of these characters from sneaking into an enemy camp to blow up some tanks with statchel charges to leading 4 M1A1 Abrams tanks into a large tank battle.

I could go on for a long time about all I love about this game. Here are the few areas of the game that could use improvement:

-Online play is fun once you get a game going... but online play only starts when all players are ready - and their is no joining games in progress. Anyone who plays games online knows people are constantly coming and going so it is rather difficult to get a sustainable game going without people leaving on the one side, and without waiting for 5-15 minutes for a new mission to begin if you just logged into a server to join a game.

-There are a few AI pathing issues with this game when in close quarters (like soldiers in a house or narrow alley, or tanks trying to navigate around the corner of a building) or in some strange instances when vehicles crash at wierd angles they tend to bounce around in odd ways. But overall this has little negative effect on the game since 99% of the action is out in the open.

So if you are looking for a good military game, go get this and it's expansions. It will have you playing for days upon days on the single player missions. As for online play, I had a hard time getting in to it with all the waiting around and botched missions due to people leaving and new ones not being able to join untill a new mission starts.