Ghost Recon Future Soldier Broken

I love video games, and I will defend them til the end. I remember when they were going up in price and I said "I wont pay that price!", every new generation system I said that, and I never held up to my claim. I've been through a lot of systems in my life time, the list is endless. Lately, I feel like I'm being played for a sap. 

Sixty Five dollars is a lot of money these days for a game that might get you 6+ hours of enjoyment. Some may say, "well, a book only last as long as it takes you to read it." Although that is true, you want more for $65, a book is far cheaper. Whatever the case might be, for what a system cost, and what the games cost you expect to have a good experience. good, great, amazing experiences is what I usually get from these gold nuggets of creativity. Usually. Currently a game has not only pushed me to write this blog, but has even had my best friend say enough is enough, and yank it out of his system and say hes done.

Ghost Recon Future Soldier, oh you wicked marvelous piece of garbage. First off, I was never a fan of the Ghost Recon series, I tried many and was just never my flavor. I have always been a fan of First person shooters (FPS) since I touched Zero Tolerance for Sega Genesis. This Ghost Recon came out at a good time. The summer game releases are stale and boring, so this game seemed good to try. Let me start off by saying the graphics are amazing. The fun I was having playing cooperatively with my friend was top notch, and seemed like something I really needed to experience as I was bored with the other typical gaming such as Call of Duty. The environment, the graphics, all of it were just breath taking. Until. Yes, until all the glitches kicked in, the textures not loading, the corrupted saves. 

New tactic: fight from underground.

Normally I can deal with this, because you either load a previous save or turn it off and turn it back on and the problem fixes itself. No, not this piece of garbage. Thats right, garbage. the game is broke. My buddy and I tried everything, loads, turn offs, everything. The problems just either stop for a minor amount of time and show back up, or they just get increasingly worse. In a mission, I snapped the neck of an invisible man, this was after I loaded the game back up from the ammo box that I got stuck on. Oh, and this was all while my friends character was running around with no arms. when the arms did appear he looked as though he was trying to pull a Goose and Maverick and fly his fake F-14 around. 

To the checkpoint, here we couldn't walk up the stairs to get to the next part of the mission, where this terrifying vehicle was going to get us, which was also invisible and shot at us. Luckily by the good graces of guess work, we blew it up. Note, we loaded this part many times as well. when we finally got through that, all I can say is enemies shouldn't look like they are wearing Sears Roebuck blue jeans. the textures would never load. Loads, and loads later, we just gave up completely. Why? Especially being so close to the end. All we had to do is go to Moscow I think and should have been almost there. With reloading the games as many times as we did, we already wasted 3 hours. Sad. 

All in all, I hope others don't have this horrible luck. I'm sure other people haven't, but as much as you pay for games, they should be flawless for every user. I just searched and found a bug report form by the developer. I doubt they care, but maybe it will help them in the long run. It is just sad to say the least.