What I didn't get was why the Russian army, the regular army of a major nation, was armed with such a hodgepodge of weapons. Do the developers not realize that armies have standard equipment? Why does one guy have a compact smg from germany, and another guy a full size rifle from france, and then the next guy an ak-47 (Didn't they stop using these in lieu of the ak74 years ago? Isn't this set in the future?)
Plus, the AI was just stupid, what self-preserving soldier stands in the middle of the street just blazing away? Even Half-Life's marines scrambled for cover, and that was 1998!
And I still don't know WTF that whole south america thing was