escort missions

[Programmed_For_Damage]

In all my life only COD4 hase done a good escort missions, ergo I hate them.

If you are meaning the tank escort, than know this: that tank escorts you, you don't escort the tank

I think he meant "Death from Above", which was awesome.

I actually thought he meant the second part of the Chernobyl mission where you can pick up and put down the person you are "escorting" (ok evacuating would be more apt). The fact that said person was more useful in combat than half a platoon made that part very enjoyable.

Other than that I cannot stand them. The person you are supposed to be escorting is usually terminally thick and has no sense of self preservation and will either charge in the direction of the enemy or hunker down in plain sight and cop hits. I usually end up putting myself between the person and the enemy and just absorb the punishment like some damage sponge, until the AI decides that it should possibly move. As much as I LOVE Bioshock, the escort section in that displayed all of the hallmarks of the previously mentioned crapness. Thank god it was short!

I remember the escort section in Perfect Dark where you had to lead the president to safety. His casual stroll through a shitstorm of bullets caused my brother and I to get so frustrated with him that we both switched our dual Cyclones to "empty entire clip" and brought them to bear on his slack arse! 120 bullets and a twitching corpse later, "Mission Failed", but boy was it worth it.

 

[Fire Daemon]

I remember in Far Cry Instincts (on the xbox) there was an escort mission that had you escort (WOAH BIG SUPRISE) some guy who's name escapes me. This wasn't a normal escort mission though. Instead of being an idiot and getting himself killed the escortee hid in a shed. It was your job to go ahead and kill everyone with your mutant powers of death. It was very fun mostly because the escortee wanted to live while you where able to run around in a mad rush breaking people with your hands.

 

[ReepNeep]

Eh. One game I actually enjoyed escort missions was the Xwing series.

Imagine:

A wave of fighters drops out of hyperspace, you send your wingmen after them while you bust your ass trying to shoot down the volleys of warheads they're launching at your carrier. Once you deal with the warheads you haul ass over and finish the Y-wings off just in time to have another flight drop from the opposite side. You slam everything into the engines and get over there just as they enter warhead range and break up their pass by dualfiring with the few missiles you have. As you finish this flight a frigate drops in and start spamming Z95s. Rogue squadron's A-wings crash the party as well.

You mutter curses under your breath as you call in Mu squadron for backup.

None of the other mission types in that game were quite as intense.