A budget game by today's standards, but pretty good when you give it a go!
User Rating: 7.5 | Delta Force PC
From a distance, DF doesn't look that great. That's true, but the gameplay is pretty good though. You start off by making an ID, and even choosing your country which is kind of neat. Throughout the game you'll be doing a bit of globe hoping, indonesia, a few african and south american countries etc, but there's nothing distinguising them other than the fact that the missions are different. You have a selection of weapons including pistols, machine guns, rifles etc, but you also have other inventory necessary for mission objectives (claymores for example). Gameplay wise the game is...kind of stupid, but you get over it pretty quick. The one thing it does right though is putting you in the shoes of a DF member, you'll feel pretty cool with your trusty sniper rifle shooting the crap out of drug lords etc. Which leads me to another little tidbit. Shooting. Basically, if you shoot someone in the foot, they're dead, same goes with the hand etc. Even if you use the pistol (which is craptacular by the way), you'll still killing them left right and centre. But don't think your invincible, one shot is all they need to know where you are. They must have hearing like bats I tell you! They will then procede to shoot you wherever you are and they won't stop. In the real world it would translate to wasting bucket loads of ammunition, but howsoever. AI is pathetic, but again, they can still kill you, and will. My tactic in most of the games was just to get a sniper rifle and shoot everybody from a hill. Kind of chicken of course, but you can't do that all the time. Sound is sub-par, there's no music, and the guns sound tame and feel like cap-guns really. The radio chatter with your squad mates is ok though. I mean, they won't be discussing their fear of chickens or anything like that, they'll just give you the basics "Charlie one is down. Get to the pick up point etc etc." The other gripe is running speed, its a little bit slow for my taste, I think its going for realism or something like that. Which is funny seeing as apparently being shot in the foot is a death sentence.
All in all, its an ok game, but not one I could say its a "MUST play."
