I remember seeing this cover at Blockbuster a few times thinking it looked rad as hell but I never rented it for some reason. Freedom Fighters is a 3rd person shooter taking place in an alternate reality where the Soviet Union dropped a nuke on Germany ending WW2 and becoming a mega power in the process. Fast forward to the modern day where you're some New York plumber doing work and then the Russians invade so you gotta drop the plunger and pick up a gun to become the resistance leader and save the greatest state in America. That is pretty much all you really need to know about the plot, it's there and nothing too special but gets the game going to its end.

The gameplay I found more fun than I would've thought. The maps in missions are these big sections of the city and you take on each mission in a different part traveling all over. The graphics for the time look nice (it reminds me a lot of the early Hitman games, which makes sense since same developers). Combat is nice, the game tries to be a little strategic and you can't really run and gun everything. You have squad mates you can recruit and set them to do actions such as defending the position, retreating, and suppressing fire. I found basic enemies really hard to take down since most seem to be bullet sponges for some reason. Maybe because I played on hard this is the case but I found myself running low on ammo very often in the middle of gunfights. For some reason though I found aiming at enemies to be less accurate than shooting by the hip. When you aim down your bullets tend to spread all over the place, weird. I found myself really using the game's squad mechanics to my advantage in order to survive a lot of fights since this game get's pretty challenging towards the end of it.

Game runs good on PC but the one mission towards the end of the game where it's snowing in NY chugs so hard for some reason.