This game is simply a heck of a lot of fun to play with a friend. The real heart of Conflict: Desert Storm II - Back to Baghdad lies in the multiplayer cooperative mode. It does not happen as much as it did in last year's game, but it is still an annoyance.ДЄn intense rooftop battle. The troops will often engage targets that they have no hope of overcoming, or will blow your cover during missions requiring secrecy. If you are not controlling your guys, the AI certainly won't be doing you any favors. It was not a rare occurrence for me to toggle between my groups only to find out that one of my men had been cut down. Your players give audio cues to let you know how they're doing, but it can very hard to keep track of who is doing what during the middle of a firefight. If you have to split up your squad - and you will - it can be an exercise in frustration as you toggle between two groups taking fire. You can basically command your squad to follow the leader or stay.

All of that fancy team stuff above sounds cool, but it was pretty tricky to do in single-player mode. In the single-player mode, you are in control of all four members of your unit, which due to some funky AI and a fairly steep learning curve for newbies, makes things a bit harder than they should be. I had my heavy weapons guy pop a smoke grenade - which is improved over the previous game's attempt - and my demo guy bugged out under the cover of the smoke, blowing the C4 (and the tank) once he had gotten a safe distance away.

My demolition expert flanked it and laid some C4 near it. I used my sniper to get its attention, ducking down before it blasted me into small pieces. For example, there is a mission with a tank in the middle of valley. You will have to use all of their skills to get through most missions. Your squad consists of an assault-rifle wielding team-leader, a sniper, a demolitions expert, and a heavy-weapons operator. The game starts with you controlling either a squad of American Special Forces operators or British SAS personnel. But the sheer fun of the sitting-on-the-couch-with-a-buddy gameplay more than makes up for those problems. The game suffers from drab graphics, sports an uneven and occasionally frustrating single-player mode, and has a general lack of polish. Unfortunately, it is still far from perfect. Quite simply, this is one of the best multiplayer games I have played in quite a while. There are plenty of tactical shooters on the PS2, but few of them offer much in the way of a multiplayer experience.

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