My first impressions after playing the 360 demo for Conflict: Denied Ops were incredibly negative. Oh great, just what the world needs: another FPS, and a crappy one at that. But, dedicated reviewer that I am (or is that OCD?), I picked up the retail version when it came out. Surprisingly, by the end of the first mission — even though the demo level was a shortened version of the first mission in the retail copy — my mind was changed. When it came time to choose my next mission, I decided that I kinda of liked this game.

That would last until the mission in Africa which, in addition to being a kind of sucky mission, had a serious glitch which put me off the game for a week.