The game puts you in the shoes of a plumber-turned-resistance fighter (not Super Mario) when Russia invades New York.
Freedom Fighters boasts one of the most impressive third-person control schemes I've used. The mouse fluidly controls both your view of the action and your aim, with an optional close-in over-the-shoulder perspective for precision aiming.
You've presented with a series of interconnected missions, which give you a wide degree of flexibility in how you attack them. You navigate through the mission areas via the New-York sewer system, with various manhole access points strewn throughout each level, and doubling as your save points.
Raise your charisma score by completing secondary missions and healing wounded civilians along the way, and you will earn the right to lead up to 12 freedom fighters into battle. You can order your squadmates to attack, defend and fall back, and they'll follow your commands with destructive abandon.
Unfortunately, the game suffers from a lack of variety overall. Most of the missions are very similar, the standard array of weapons gets a bit dull, and there is a shortage of epic encounters. In addition, experienced players will probably blast through the entire game in 10 hours or less and will find little reason to replay it.
Highs: Detailed environments, good pyrotechnics, smart controls, open-ended mission structure.
Lows: Not enough mission variety, AI teammates bunch up too often, story lose steam at the end.

Awesome. There's like no other word for it. When I got this game I bought it by geting World of Ea Games pack. I thought that this was going to be like any other shooter game. IT"S NOT!! The story line is very well writen, and the graphics are great! Now it's hard for me to really get into a game , but this was great I would play until 11 o'clock at night. Also the name of the character is the same as mine so it felt like they were really talking to me. The reds had no chance against me and the rest of new york. I'm not saying the game is easy, but you can change the diffuculty level. I heard from another review that they are making a Freedom Fighters 2 which is great because the game ends with your player talking about how "They'll be back with bigger guns and more troops." And now you know they will. Anyway its really cool how you can recrute new freedom fighters and comand them. This game feels so real. I mean it feels like its a real war. There's no monsters or aliens its just YOU and a couple of men ( or women) against the whole Soviet Army. I remeber in one level I got the explosives I needed, I broke out the Prizoners of war and had them at the sewers, but then out of a window I saw a freedom fighter that I hadn't recruted was injured, and I couldnt bring myself to leave him there so I went out and helped him back. I felt kinda good after I did that. Even thought its only a game, but like I said I was so into this game it felt like I was Christopher Stone and I had a duty to rescue him. Thats why this game is so great. It captivates you so you froget its only a game and start to think "wow this feels so real!" Thats why I tip my hat to you Ea Games and lo-Interactive you made a Absoluty Unbeliveable Great game.

After watching Patrick Swayze and his bad-80s-movie crew in "Red Dawn", I was inspired and launched on an all-night rondo of commie-killing mayhem.

The squad-based commend system is innovative, easy to use, and really makes a difference. The only thing is, it seems a bit inconsistent. There are times when your squad will take out every last bleeping red-hatted invader in sight, leaving you with a cake-walk. Other times, he's toast with a big red cross saying "Help Me! I'm gunned down and I can't get up!" But that's neither here nor there.

There's not a great deal of replayability, since your enemies always appear at the same place, with the same armaments, and spawning points are limited. Though since there are usually four or five ways to tackle a given tactical situation, that does help.

Hours of fun, but not days, weeks or months. Still, a good game.

Piicked this one up from the garbage bin because of the low price and interesting background story. I expected it to be one of those "Beat in half an hour and then throw away" games but instead I was completely blown away by it.

From the perfect music, that changes depending on what you are doing (Sneaking, full scale attack, etc) to the way the player can choose how to reach an objective (Full scale assault, or careful planning- if the base is too well defended, you can go to another area an blow up their helipad and bridges to make sure that they don't recieve reinforcements during your attack).

This game is completely different from what you have out there. Instead of the usual "walk down a narrow tunnel shooting dumb enemies" kind of gameplay, you can actually make choices, decided how to carry out your assault, choose the route you wanna take, and give orders to your teammates.

Sure, as the review under this one says, several things could be improved- the save system, for one- I hate restarting levels when I get killed. Graphics could be better too, among other things.

Fortunately, I found out that the makers of this game begun work on Freedom Fighters 2 around last January. Get ready for Freedom Fighters 2!

I bought this game because of the bargain price and because I was bored. Well, I was blown away by this game!!! I heard about it a year or two ago but didn't pay attention to it. I'm just glad that I finally discovered what a GREAT game this is.

Sure, it's not without its flaws and I can think of a couple things that could be improved, but overall this is a GREAT combat game with a FANTASTIC story that makes you feel like you're living through the invasion of the United States in an alternate reality.

I really, REALLY hope they make a sequel ... what better praise is there?