A military game so realistic it was born out of a training program actually used by the US military - Full Spectrum Warrior chose to take the very idea of tact-based squad deployment the likes of which we'd seen in the Conflict series, letting you control everything from on the ground through a variety of real-time strategy interfaces. Despite spandex-tight control and superb animations that meant battles unfurled like elaborately-plotted chess games it never caught on, and developers Pandemic would then go on to create some of the most overblown and ridiculous action titles of our time in the Mercenaries and Star Wars: Battlefront series instead. What made FSW something special even before the wave of first-person shooters would arrive and consume us all was a gorgeous graphics engine, and a very deliberately-paced campaign mode that made sure when you happened upon a group of enemies at once, it was a real threat. You could partner up with a buddy online too, and back before Xbox Live had been infected by racist homophobic teenagers it was actually a remarkably friendly place, allowing you and a friend to share team-tactics and cover each other's backs throughout.
