Bad,boring,sad,Not Fun. Dont Buy!
Terrorist Takedown is another game set in the ever-popular Middle East, where generic "terrorists" with guns, rockets, jeeps, and sheer numbers assault American forces. If that sounds bland and uninspired, then you're right along with me – there's not exactly a surplus of creativity here. You're an unnamed soldier with an unnamed unit in an unidentified location somewhere in the Eurasian continent. It's obvious that you're an American male, but beyond that, there's no backstory whatsoever.
The game itself won't exactly make you get out of your seat and enlist either. The engine here is serviceable and nothing more, with sparse detail and nearly no animation to speak of. It doesn't help that the only "enemy" you see tends to be out at some enormously long range, giving you nothing to look at but generic brown terrain or generic grey buildings while trying to shoot ants in the face. Don't expect any spectacular special effects or heavy explosions – this is 1999 all over again. The sound is far from astounding, too, with weak gunfire and ... well, that's about it.
For something so simple, the controls are a serious failing point – the mouse is sluggish and jittery, and the zoom mode you desperately need in order to see smaller targets is practically useless because of instability. Pouring on the firepower generally doesn't work either because of restrictions placed on you to avoid just that.
The first two missions are hard enough to put most gamers off immediately, but pushing through them results in four extremely easy missions in a row, followed again by a painfully hard mission.
I have NOTHING good to say about this game.
NEVER buy it........