: Or carry a passenger with a rocket launcher, which is something that the
: Ghost could not do.

: The Ghost is a lone wolf fast attacker, the Goose is a utility knife.

: THIS, is the kind of stuff that makes MP games interesting and fun, vehicles
: and weapons that while in the same "class", have totally
: different applications.

: Adding a gun to the Goose screams at me that it's just another
: BR=Carbine=Light Rifle equation again- items from different factions that
: are simple re-skins of the same template with really, really minor
: differences.

: This is not good game design, in my mind.

I'm gonna agree with you here*. The Mongoose doesn't need a gun.

*Although I completely disagree that the Mongoose had any offensive capability. I don't think I ever successfully ran someone over. I'd hit them, glance off, flip, and then they'd kill me. >_>