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Delta Force - Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre
(hx) 03:48 AM EST - Feb,02 2004
While Novalogic focuses on their upcoming multiplayer shooter
Joint
Operations, the developer Ritual Entertainment finished Delta Force Black
Hawk Down: Team Sabre, the first expansion pack to this tactical shooter. I've
finished the game a couple days ago, so here's my review on it.
After fighting on the streets of Mogadishu, Team Sabre features two new single player campaigns (over 11 heavily scripted missions) that take Delta Force deep into the jungles of Colombia in search of drug trafficker, then on to battle terrorist factions in and around Iran's island oilfields.
For starters, Black Hawk Down's arsenal is similar to that of most military-themed shooters. Weapons range from pistols (Colt M1911A1 .45) to assault rifles (CAR-15 + M203 grenade launcher) to sniper rifles (M-24) to machine guns (M-60). There are several weapons for each of these categories, in addition to grenades and other explosives. Most of the weapons have some sort of a zoom scope, and your accuracy varies depending on what you're doing at a given moment (running, crouching, etc). Team Sabre expansion adds three new weapons - the G3, the G36, and the PSG-1. The G3 and the G36 are German assault rifles, and the PSG-1 is a well-known German sniper rifle with 12x zoom. In the game you also have access to vehicle mounted and fixed weapon emplacements. These include the .50 cal machine guns on the humvees, as well as the mini-guns on the Blackhawks. Team Sabre adds new infiltration-oriented chopper, a RHIB (Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat) and a French light armored recon vehicle. None of the vehicles in Team Sabre are controllable, however, in single player or multiplayer. However, there are about 40 new NovaWorld-only maps designed specifically for Team Sabre. All the vehicles in Team Sabre are A.I. controlled.
Although the game offers a plethora of team commands to choose from, Team Sabre is mostly a straightforward, simplistic action game with some real-world trappings. You run and shoot. You have objectives and a HUD radar showing you where to go next. Your teammates AI isn't that good, you would assume that seeing the terrorists. They are often "get lost" when their path finding abilities are hampered by something or other. Overall, I'd say that Team Sabre is a bit more difficult then the original Black Hawk Down.
The multiplayer portion of the game won't disappoint you. Team Sabre adds 30 new multiplayer maps (most of them drawn from the single-player campaign) playable in 7 different multiplayer modes (Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Attack and Defend, Search and Destroy, King of the Hill and Team King of the Hill) and up to 50 players on a server at a time. The new maps are heavy with trees and offer plenty of areas to hide. You will also be able to join NovaWorld games as an SAS character.
If you liked the original game ( DF:Black
Hawk Down), especially its multiplayer portion, then it's worth the money
($20).
System requirements:
Minimum: Pentium III 733 MHz or higher, 256MB RAM, 32 MB Video Card, CDROM 4x, 750MB free HDD space
Recommended: Pentium 4 1.4 GHz or higher, 512MB RAM, 64 MB 3D Card
snd: 4/5 - pretty good, nice music
gfx: 3/5 -
a bit better than the original BHD + the environments are more complex, nice water effects, textures are often blurry, many clipping glitches
playability: 4/5 -
slightly more difficult than the original, pretty linear, two new campaigns, some new weapons and vehicles, 30 new MP maps, limited number of save-game slots, some bugs
                                                                                 
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last 10 comments:
| ThaEastsidaAKAferrar | posted - Feb, 02 2004 - 08:20 | as the first commenter, i must say:
JIHAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!
just kiddn |
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| Bill Gates | posted - Feb, 02 2004 - 08:21 | | I'd say this is a fair review. Nicely put HX. Better AI and less linear gameplay would tip the scales. being able to play online with a cracked version would be a good selling point too. :D |
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| tom | posted - Feb, 02 2004 - 12:39 | | graphics are ok in this game but it just feels cheap.. |
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| ***REFUGEE*** | posted - Feb, 02 2004 - 18:03 | | well son, i'd love to put a single cap in yo melon :D , game is great, nice addition of jungle evironment, Feels like Platton movie most of the time,
I love it, always did like DF series. Latah. |
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| kasut | posted - Feb, 03 2004 - 05:56 | | i'm gonna buy the cracked version of the game. The game looks :( to me... JIHAD!!! |
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| fuck binladen | posted - Feb, 03 2004 - 11:34 | | you don't send delta force for taliban you just nuke 'em |
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| jihad@work.com | posted - Feb, 04 2004 - 17:14 | | but then they wil wage ......JIHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! on you....lolz |
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| Big-Stoopid-Brain | posted - Feb, 05 2004 - 11:12 | | This game is only fo' American phanatics only,'um an USA citizen as well,but i hate this game,it's so Americana!!!!!,just like ussual,some of typical game like dis always put American as a superior one,but actually USA nothin' mo' just a piece of LOOSERZ!!!!!!!,betta' playin' THPS4 or KOTOR,it has alotta fun!!!!!! |
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| GI Jihard | posted - Feb, 05 2004 - 17:53 | | Big-Stoopid-Brain - err... that's because Americans are typically superior in combat! :rolleyes: |
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| Big-Stoopid-Brain | posted - Feb, 06 2004 - 00:36 | | GI Jihard....LOL,yea i guess so,but i like to play Splinter Cell,even dat game is so Americana too hahahaha,anyway,i just don't like da' story line of Black Hawk Down:Team Sabre,BTW why don't UBISOFT make a game which is put The JIHAD Warrior as da' main character,so I CAN bang da' Pentagon......,or shoot da' BUSH's head with AWP LOL............... |
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| Bryan | posted - Feb, 06 2004 - 00:53 | | ray b@hiphopindo why dont I just shoot u in the head, u piece of crap. |
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| JP | posted - Feb, 06 2004 - 02:28 | | Sometimes i realy ask myself, is anybody older then 12 here? |
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| n00b | posted - Feb, 06 2004 - 07:58 | | JP - ROFL... i've wondered the same. But name calling is a life-long skill. |
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| nagraj | posted - Feb, 09 2004 - 09:59 | | well..how come i play this game on internet? someone please help me |
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| ANit Moder | posted - Feb, 11 2004 - 01:54 | | YOu DOnt want to play this game online... to many fking Cheats, just makes it unfair and very frustrating.
even the latest patch has cheats online. |
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| jonjon | posted - May, 04 2004 - 11:18 | | this is why GI Joe never win any wars, they only tough in game, LOL, good idea big stupid brain, so UBISOFT we looking forward to play that kind of game, bwa ha ha |
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