GRAW 2 multiplayer: no cover in sight
GameTrailers has posted this lengthy preview of GRAW 2 multiplayer (also available in HD). The preview highlights most of the game's multiplayer features including controllable recon drones. Like many, we watched the video waiting to hear only one thing: is there a cover system in multiplayer? Unfortunately, if there is a cover system in multiplayer, the GameTrailers preview makes no mention of it. This leads us to believe that is has been excised from multiplayer as it was in the original GRAW. There are some notable new features though, including the ability to see through a teammate's eyes using the cross com. All in all, it looks like fun, though Tom Clancy fans are likely to be disappointed by the lack of a cover system.




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2-02-2007 @ 4:09PM
Arno said...
:(
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2-02-2007 @ 4:13PM
Justin U said...
Duh. The cover system's barely work in Multiplayer anyways. People snipe like hell.
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2-02-2007 @ 4:14PM
Justin U said...
Well, that and Grenades FTL >_
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2-02-2007 @ 4:36PM
Raydahz said...
Very Disappointing.
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2-02-2007 @ 4:39PM
NOEEM said...
@2
"Duh. The cover system's barely work in Multiplayer anyways. People snipe like hell."
uhh... I've seen a team of elites in RB6 patiently and methodically use cover to decimate everyone. Cover works if you don't play like you're in Halo.
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2-02-2007 @ 5:04PM
Phil said...
I don't understand why everyone wants a cover system in Graw 2 MP so bad.
You want cover system, Go play the Single player mode in Graw 2.
Or Gears or Rainbow Six for fuck sake.
Leave the MP in GRaw 2 just the way it is.
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2-02-2007 @ 5:08PM
Deezul said...
Yeah, we don't need cover. Because in the real world, soldiers just run and gun at the enemy. They NEVER us cover when working in a team, right?
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2-02-2007 @ 5:20PM
chukc said...
wowzer
the game is called graw not gow or grow
the game has so many nooks and crannys
that you should be able to get behind something for cover or go prown
its classic clancy games
hopefully it comes with halo3 beta invite
awesome
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2-02-2007 @ 5:23PM
chukc said...
wowzer
also the gaming community should
test, test, test to work in any possiblilites
that would make the game better
why haven't they figured it out yet
updates should be over connection issues not entire game flaws
i'm sorry to say what others have
but this game does look like a graw 1.5
graw needs to grow up or shut down
the only ones buying will be the loyal fans
awesome
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2-02-2007 @ 6:41PM
Insomnious said...
Damn right i'm disappointed.
The best multiplayer games I've played for the 360 have both used a cover system - Gears, and Rainbow 6. A cover system adds a whole new technique to a game and doesn't make you rely on spotting the enemy before they spot you, i.e., Halo 2.
With cover, you can retreat or advance and plan your next attack or strategy. It gives you that element of surprise, and also gives you some breathing room AND see the enemy advancing.
Why can't the single and multiplayer play exactly like one another? I loved playing GRAW's campaign because it was very methodical and required careful planning, exactly what the multiplayer should be like. This, and having your team-mates in full communication with you, and there could be some epic battles.
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2-02-2007 @ 8:34PM
refinedsugar said...
I'd like to have seen a cover system implemented in the MP, but in no way is the game broken or awful without it. Some people seem to have forgot a time when fps didn't ship with "cover systems" and were enjoyable. Hard to grasp I know, but there you go.
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2-02-2007 @ 10:19PM
Clinton said...
It looks like they haven't neutered the graphics for the multiplayer modes. As for a cover system, if they didn't mention it in this long video, that probably means it's MIA. What a shame.
While I understand the need to differentiate all these Tom Clancy games involving guys with guns, I just hate losing a play feature that is a critical part of the single-player game. R6, guys, R6. You can take cover until you're blue in the face and the multiplayer is fantastic.
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2-02-2007 @ 10:42PM
alijah said...
You can count me out. I love GRAW, but no cover makes me sick its in single player i want it in multi. my rent it maybe
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2-02-2007 @ 11:20PM
Modeps said...
In GRAW1, the multiplayer and singleplayer were actually two separately developed pieces of software. Single playere was by Ubi Paris, Multi by Red Storm. They were close, but not the same at all... and honestly I had more fun playing single player than multi because I had to be more tactical than twitchy. I'll probably get GRAW2 for the single, and not the multi.
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2-03-2007 @ 11:26AM
Barbie Fu said...
graw definately needs to add the cover to the multi-player campaign.....you guys hear this at ubisoft?
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2-03-2007 @ 11:34AM
Barbie Fu said...
did you notice the foot first slide, that was in the first graw campaign, and not the multiplayer...it looks like they added that in............mebbe we can pray?
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2-03-2007 @ 12:45PM
Phil said...
Cover system in MP = Camp Fest Galore.
Fuck that shit.
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2-04-2007 @ 6:44PM
Insomnious said...
"Cover system in MP = Camp Fest Galore."
Cool, have fun in Halo 2 then.
"The best players and teams in R6:Vegas almost NEVER use the cover system..."
Are you high? If you run around like some typical FPS, you're aiming goes to hell and you're spraying bullets everywhere.
A cover system does mean camping - you still need to move or lean out of cover to actually take an aimed shot at someone. If you've just taken 2 or 3 shots and you're screens almost completely black, sure, you run ahead and make a fool of yourself.
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2-05-2007 @ 12:16AM
Jon Swift said...
Are you seriosuly disappointed about the lack of a cover system.....LOL!
The best players and teams in R6:Vegas almost NEVER use the cover system...
Bad players use the cover system.
and @5 Nooem: That must've been a really bad team then.
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4-01-2007 @ 6:49AM
JimmyRBM said...
You can use anything and everything as cover, it just all depends on how you use.
KILL EM ALL GRAW2
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