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At one point, I was working my way through a citified neighborhood with tall buildings and narrow streets. For my money, this is one of the best features in GRAW 2 - the ability to tackle the same objective from multiple perspectives. After a few more trial-and-error attempts, I found a good spot for my men to take out the bad guys while I sniped from around the corner of a building. Then, the bad guys lobbed grenades at my cover until I stopped breathing. Cowering behind a concrete planter, I ordered my troops into the fight, but the well-trained enemy made short work of the exposed front. A helicopter had swooped in to extract us, but as we approached the whirlybird, a rocket took out the tail, and the chopper spun off into the distance as the church came tumbling down. After coasting for most of the game, our unit began dieing time and time again as we tried to fend off a group of mercenaries in a church courtyard. When you finally hit a wall in the game - the first few hours are easy, fun missions - you'll discover that succeeding in a given quest comes down to managing your troops. Using the D-Pad and face buttons, Mitchell can order the squad into particular positions, have them take cover, engage the enemy, heal each other or just hang back while the captain gets his kill on. Sure, you could run into a situation all by yourself, but this game is about teamwork. You'll use the controls to swoop in, wipe out villains and run back to your awaiting helicopter, but once you master guiding Mitchell, you'll need to begin managing your squad. However, that's just the game warming up. From an over-the-shoulder perspective, use L1 to precisely aim, R1 to pull the trigger, tap X to take cover or reload, hold X to change your weapon's rate of fire, hold circle to switch guns, and R3 lets you use your scope if you have one. From the time you pick up the controller, GRAW 2 feels natural. The story isn't what's going to keep bringing you back to GRAW 2 - its' the gameplay. Of course, everything goes to hell and the media ends up blaming you for a bunch of horrible things, but that's war, baby. You and a team of elite soldiers - Ghosts - are sent in to keep the peace and protect Lady Liberty. A leader in the armed forces, Mitchell is the last hope for damage control in a 2014 Mexico civil war that is nearing a protective wall separating the states from chaos. Did you miss the title's first go 'round on the Xbox 360? GRAW 2 puts you into the fatigues of Captain Scott Mitchell. GRAW 2 is here for the PlayStation 3, and it looks, plays and feels oh-so good. For me, the game sold itself when I sneaked into a bombed out house, picked off a few Mexican rebels and watched a tank explode - complete with the screen rocking all around and smoke billowing out of a cavern. It won't take long for you to fall in love with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter 2.