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Summary: Entertaining, but not a true master piece
Review: All ethical issues aside, this certainly as an entertaining game. Note that this is by no means a "military simulation". It is an action game, and you will find yourself "shooting your way out" with little further tactic and strategy.What makes this game unusual is the setting in an urban environment, where all the enemies are pretty much dressed like everyone else, but the player must differentiate between hostiles and civilians. Also, the inner-city setting of most missions makes for an unusual game with a lot of character. On the downside, I found this game rather easy. I played on the "normal" setting (medium of 3 difficulty settings), and most of the game was relatively easy to play (and I would not consider myself a good FPS player). The only difficulty lies in the missions where one needs to shoot down from a helicopter. The game is also very short. A long day of gaming, and you are through! (Which I personally like, since I do not have too much time on my hands, but most other players will probably think differently...) One of the most annoying aspects of this game is the safe-game system. Although one can save wherever one pleases, there is only a certain number of saves available. I mean: C'mon! Every game developer magazine and book, and every industry conference treads the need for a "save anywhere" system as a given fact, and yet still developers keep doing stupid things like this! And in this case, it is not even a technical issue. After all, they had to artificially limit the number of saves! I am tempted to downgrade this to a 3-star review because of this issue... (I am keeping it at 4 stars, because the game is easy enough for this not too matter too much...)
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Summary: This game Rox!
Review: This game is very challenging. It's also very fun. This game is a game you can play all over again. I've already beat it three times! I suggest you get it!
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Summary: Very good Black Hawk Down game
Review: To address some issues about the game, the negatives first - yes, your squadmates have terrible shots, but they DO kill some bad guys, now most people say this is negative, to me, it's better this way - have you played ghost recon? in ghost recon your squad kills every bad guy before you ever get a shot! It's stupid. Although they do get in the way, thats how it REALLY works, you have to keep your eyes open and watch out for your teammates.
This game REALLY engulfs you into the Black Hawk Down atmosphere, the city really feels like Mogadishu, the buildings, the people, everything, feels and looks great... And the missions accompanied by the sound have a very theatrical feel, it gets your heart pumping a bit doing a takedown "We have a swarm of militia approaching our point" your heart starts racing a bit, you hear lots of militia voices speaking in their language, yelling, shooting, WOW... fantastic! So for atmosphere, this game ROCKS... Put some headphones on and just get entreanched by this game, you'll love every second of it.. You'll feel like your in the movie.
The missions are all really good, on one you actually get in a Humvee as the .50' calibur gunner - your in a convoy and going through the city, militia are on rooftops, coming out of alleys, all over just like the movie... awesome.. You also get to do takedowns, you fly via black hawk into the city, jump out on a rooftop, a second team lands on the deck and works through the 1st floor while you go top down with your team, meet up at extraction while hundreds of militia are trying to converge on you, you hear the bullets whizzing by your head, the yelling and gathering of the militia storms through your ears, "RPG, RPG", you know what may happen if you can't get to your convoy asap, but at last with some covering fire from the Black Hawk overhead, you make the getaway with your captured Tier 1 militants.
The game really does play quite nice, the AI isn't great, but it doesn't have to be, I personally don't really take notice to that. The controls feel nice, and all the weapons are a bit different, they fire nicely, the sights are nice, and the feel of the weapon overall is pretty good, you feel like your firing an M16, or a shotgun, etc.
So again, this game was fantastic, I've played most games, Far Cry, Splinter Cell, etc... Even other squad based games like the Conflict Series and Rainbow Six/Ghost Recon - to be honest, NOTHING has come as close as Black Hawk Down to getting that true feel of the battle - again, you'll feel like your in Mogadishu fighting the hard battle that our soldiers did. You'll be on the edge of your seat flying in on that Black Hawk helicopter manning the machine guns, and your thinking "is THIS where the black hawk gets hit, RPG RPG!!!" - I can't get enough, WOW! Buy this game, for $19.99 its a STEAL!
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Summary: Cloaked grenades?!
Review: A few things about this game are annoying:
In one of the missions, when I select the M16 with grenadelauncher, the grenades fly through the walls without exploding. Perhaps they have been fitted with some kind of advanced cloaking device in order to spare precious monumental bunkers? On more than one occassion I have also found that when I try to kill a hostile my team-mates form a human shield around the target, forcing me to fire at them. On another mission (which takes place in total darkness) you rely on night-vision to see what you're doing and the enemy relies on barrels of fire to see what's going on. So obviously you'd want to avoid the barrels at all cost to prevent your detection and consequent execution. But unfortunately the A.I. is so bad that your team-mates eagerly swarm around the fires, and you half expect one of them to pull out a guitar and start singing camp-fire songs.
There are not enough missions to keep me entertained, the A.I. is entirely non-existent and some of the ammunition is a bit too clever for my taste. The only reason I have it is because it came with a new videocard.
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Summary: the main game sucks
Review: I don't know what game the other reviewers have been playing, but the AI of the Black Hawk Down that I have been playing is just aweful. Your squad consists of you and the three stoogies; your squad mates can't hit the broad side of the barn when it comes to the bad guys even if the bad guy is standing right next to them so you will have to spearhead to do almost all of the shooting; however, the the three stoogies will take this opportunity to shoot you in the back or from the side or they will run in front of you and block your shoots. You cannot give the three stoogies command so they just basically do whatever. The civilian will run between you and the bad guys, but don't worry because the three stoogies are good at shooting the civilians. The AI of the enemies are just as bad. They shoot all over the place and wander around like idiots most of the times. This game is nowhere near the sophistication of Ghost Recon.
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Summary: a thing to think about
Review: I think Delta force Blackhawk down should cost less, like $20.00 or at least $24.00.
target is making it so that only people that have 30 bucks can buy it. So please!!!!!!!!!!! Lower the price target. You will be thanked for it, by thousands.
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Summary: a thing to think about
Review: I think it should cost less, like $20.00 or at least $24.00.
target is making it so that only people that have 30 bucks can buy it so please!!!!!!!!!!! Lower the price target will be thanked for it.
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