ARS: A warning: don’t buy Rogue Warrior

ARS: We had requested a review copy of Rogue Warrior before the game came out, and for some reason it was sent to one of my old addresses; it wasn’t until the holidays that the copy of the game was recovered. I was able to play the game over the holiday vacation.

A review of the game would be criminally late at this stage, so let this serve as a warning. You may see Rogue Warrior on the shelf, and see that Rebellion as the developer, and Bethesda as the publisher, and think that you respect both of these companies. So do I. But don’t let that fool you into a purchase. There is no telling what happened here. The game can be beaten in one sitting-you can actually finish the whole damn thing in around two hours. The voice acting is satirical, and is made up of more expletives than other words. You can sneak up behind the bad guys and kill them, and to allow you to see these stealth kills, the AI mostly stands with its back to you throughout the game.