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Summary: Not as good as I expected, but still satisfying.
Review: When I first heard about "Black Thorn" I'll admit I was pretty excited, especially after hearing so many good predictions. Buying the game when it came out was on the top of my list, and sure enough that is what I did. Well now I'm sure you are just dying to know my opinion aren't you? :O) I'll begin with the negative points, first off the single player missions are not incredibly challenging despite a few brain teasing moments. It took me less than a week to knock off all of it's nine missions, if I had more time to myself it might of been a lot shorter. Also, it's thirty dollar price tag is a little steep, even if it is a stand alone mission pack. On the plus side of things, the nine missions this game provides are in some very impressive environments both size wise and graphical wise. Not only that, most of these missions prove themselves to have a high replayablity factor in both normal and special (terrorist hunt, lone wolf etc.) modes. Some new weapons have been introduced for all you single player lovers out there, including the impressive 7.62mm SSG3000 SR Sniper Rifle and the 5.7mm P90 SMG sub machine gun which is a personal favorite of mine. Multi-player fans will love some of the new weapons that have been added just for them such as the 5.56mm M82 AR assault rifle and the impressive 9mm SPP Pistol. The storyline is not so bad itself either and was pretty well thought out, but don't worry I won't give it away. So while this game is a little pricey, any Rainbow fan can't be without this overall impressive mission pack.
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Summary: Newest Rogue Spear!
Review: Woohoo! Finally - new maps, new weapons!While Black Thorn is still the Rogue Spear enging (made in like 1999 or something) it's still the only game out there that's realistic. Now we've got new maps and new guns. Also, now that my computer's caught up to modern technology, Black Thorn runs like a dream in high, high resolution on my PC. I can see a lots more stuff I didn't see before. The new maps are pretty cool - they have a whole African village with buildings and alleys and streets, a cruise ship that's just huge, a hospital (that's really tough to beat in single player) and jungle map. It has a couple of low points - the M60 is way too accurate for balance. It might be really accurate in real life, but it's like a laser beam of death in this game. Also, they added a pistol with 30 rounds of ammunition in a magazine - that's really tough in the lone wolf multiplayer mode. But - it was only like ..., and if you don't have Rogue Spear, you can run Black Thorn al by itself, so if you've never played the Clacny games before, you can give this one a try.
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