Delta Force - Black Hawk Down Comments by Martin Taylor

He's so happy he's gone to Camber Sands for the weekend. Git.

HMV were dishing out free demo CD's of this when I was in there at lunchtime. Heard mixed things about the game tho, someone I know loved the demo but didn't rate the full game o_O

DF: BHD takes place in Somali in 1993 when two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, 19 US soldiers died but there was something like 2,000 Somalians killed. Big numbers. Yet through the course of DF: BHD you will only see around 80-90 of them. Which would be fine if they showed an ounce of common sense. Enemies are exceptionally stupid; they rarely take cover from your oncoming bullets and fail to make direct target with you at an alarming rate. Each enemy is as brainless as the next, despite their appearances. Such is the lack of enemy AI coupled with their desperately slow actions, Black Hawk Down becomes unreasonably easy. Most disappointing of all is the sheer stupidity of your fellow soldiers who are unable to undertake the simplest of tasks, such as walking down a flight of stairs. You have limited controls over their actions, but this is no Rainbow Six.

Overall, Delta Force: Black Hawk Down tries to make some definite strides in the right direction. The gameplay and graphics are much better than the last version of the game, and the tweaks to the gameplay are notable. But compared to other shooters out there, it's severely lacking and about as much fun as choking.

Choking on what?

Go down on me. Please.

The Black Hawk, that it.

erm.

Yes.

Errol... the thread killer

One post. One kill.

This game embodies the American view of history. At the end you don't pull out of Mogadishu after realizing that the whole operation was a big mistake, you go back in and kill the evil warlord.

When victory is impossible in reality, American media creates an alternative history.

I can't believe you guys gave this game a seven!! THis game has some the worst a.i. i have ever experienced in awhile. Soldiers can litterly be standing an inch from an enemy and start shooting and hit the wall behind him (repeatedly!). If you don't personally kill everybody your team will be dead in a short time. It's too action oriented and seems to take a page form the medal of honor series.

Like the US army, then.

Yes ! lol.

It amazes me that Companies such as Rage have gone under, but Novalogic can go on for years releasing sequals to a game that sucks and still survive....

I mean even Westwood have been swallowed by the EA monster...

But Novalogic still survives...
Makes me wonder how Cryo lasted so long as well...
Novalogics day will come, Mark my words!

It's a good game, definitely recommended. Relatively bug-free, an original setting, lots of atmosphere. Really shoddy AI still plagues the series unfortunately but that's the only sticking point, and it doesn't harm the game TOO much.

As regards the conspiracy theorists and the final mission all I can say is...it's a game. It's a free mission and one that if Nova hadn't made, somebody else would have, just not as well. I think the buzzword is 'closure'.

*Shudder* now i feel like an actor from friends :/

LOL! I posted in this review back when I was but 22. :/ I'm 27 now. Old fucker. ;_;