http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles...-Soldier-Review

Review is of Xbox version, wasn't quite sure if to post here or in console forum...

It is actually getting quite a number of good reviews.

Got the game for my xBox and though I was a bit sceptical about the future stuff beforehand, I' m having lots of fun playing the campaign at the moment.

I've had a heck of a good time in it--even when playing with just the public for a team. Like Conviction isn't what I want from Splinter Cell, but still managed to be a lot of fun in it's own way, GRFS has been a fun one. In fact, the SP campaign has been better than the GRAW games were, on console at least.
In MP, the default game type is Conflict, which just isn't much fun. Siege is pretty good. It's nice to see a shooter come out that actually has a no respawn game *and* people playing it--unlike LMS in MOH. Decoy is another good game type, with the attackers having to hack up to 3 nodes to find the location of a final objective. Sticking to these 2 game types, I've got more game time in this game than others in a long while.
Main complaint is that ranking up is somewhat slow so I've stuck to just one class for now. On the other hand, your rank isn't displayed in the lobby so there's no BS pissing contest about prestige or any crap like that, no ridiculous perks or annoying pop ups coming up all the time. All replaced by a nice gun system and a few equipment options.
Best part....everything is fully unlocked in private rooms. Console is limited to 6 vs 6, but it's nice having 12 friends in a room, something that hasn't happened in a long time with recent games concentrating only on squads in a party system.

I'm really surprised to hear that people are playing a MP mode with no respawn, especially on console! I have noticed with every game in the last few years that has a new, innovative MP mode that it never gets played and they just stick to the DM and TDM modes then complain it's all the same.

Blind siege was huge in GRAW 2. I preferred the pc for co-op, but MP the console version blew away the pc.
It would be nice to have that brought over, but with the maps being smaller, there probably just isn't enough room for moving the capture point around that much.
I'm glad they left out TDM for a change, but there's a chance that will get added, unfortunately.

Seige is all we used to play in the clan I was in, from OGR to GR2. Loved it. GR was the game to buy for many who owned an Xbox and wanted to play tacticaly and without respawns.

RK - Did you join the Uplay service to access all of the MP options? That seemed a bit off to me. I like the game, but I don't want to pay to play it.

There's a code in the case you have to input to unlock MP, like an EA game. There's a folded flyer in there about a Uplay passport. The first page is English, but for some reason they stuck the code on the back of it on the French page so a lot of people missed it and thought they had to pay for MP. Just put in the code and MP is good to go with everything unlocked. More fighting the used game market.

Thanks RK. I didn't even look in the box other then to take the game disk out. Who reads the directions anyway? I'll definitely check that out the next time I play it.

Don't feel bad, you aren't the only one. One friend of mine went on and paid the points so he could get in the game with us. He's not happy. They should put the code on the first page and make it obvious.