Delta Force

The Good
Playing the role of a top secret Delta operator running around the sprawling landscapes of trouble spots in North Africa, South East Asia and former Soviet states, knocking off tin pot dictators, kidnapping drug barons and rescuing hostages is as much fun as it sounds. The play areas can only be described as mammoth and measured in kilometers, no other FPS has ever come close to such large areas. Enemies will dive to the ground if they come under fire and don't know where the shots came from, others will run to raise the alarm and gun shots will attract any enemies close enough to hear them.

The Bad
The AI is the main problem with this game; an enemy will sit inside a tent firing off hundreds of rounds of ammunition into the walls of the tent, which might be fine if you could shoot through objects and walls or if bad guys had limited ammunition but unfortunately it's not the case. Team mates will remain motionless until you trigger a waypoint for them to start moving, this falls apart when you take an alternative route through the level and your team mates will not do anything at all to help. The interiors of buildings are often pitch black from any distance and only become viewable when you actually get to the door way, by which time you usually have been shot by the soldier hiding inside who is watching the door way. Unfortunately you can complete all the missions with the M4 due to it's powerful scope and high rate of fire, this renders all the other weapons redundant which is a pity as the sniper rifles would really become useful in this game other wise.

The Bottom Line
A lot like Project IGI without the respawning enemies. A 'one hit - one kill' FPS with mammoth levels and an emphasis on stealth and not being seen.

The Good
Delta Force is very nicely made (in its time) military simulator, where you can change settings to make game more like arcade or simulator. Voxel engine works fine with outdoor environment with plain terrain. I was surprised, that in every campaign the enemy soldiers spoke their language, even in Indonesia. There is a large selection of weapons, i one mission you can also use laser designator to mark targets for naval artillery, a it's very pleasing to lie hidden on the hill and watch enemies surpressed by devastating artillery fire.

The Bad
Let's start with the briefing. The person responsible for planning routes in your GPS must be a terrorist agent, because the routes are suicide. They take you always in the surrounding crossfire situation. It's better to choose your own path, but there's a problem with waypoints - if you don't go to some waypoints, you don't trigger the other teams to assist you.

Weapon selection - there is "classic" selection of weapons, all nice modelled, but all weapons except M4 with scope are almost useless. You shoot mostly on very long distance, and weapons without scope are absolutely unusable. Sniper rifles work fine for long distance, but there is never mission, where you do sniper's work only. Fight with pistol against Kalashnikov in close quarters means your death in few seconds.

Fight - very long distance fight is just not so funny. Some dots are shooting at you and you feel like arcade "dothunter" and not soldier.

Sound - I don´t know if it was caused by my sound settings, but i was never able to determine direction or distance of enemy soldiers by sound and that's very important aspect in 3D action game. I you hear speaking enemy, you don't know if he's behind hill before you or 300m away.

The Bottom Line
Delta Force is game with it's flaws, but enjoyable to play. Not extra fun, but you'll maybe like it.

The Good
- Revolutionary for its time (incredible influence on Tactical Shooters genre); - Great sounds; - Great effects of smoke and explode; - Cool realization of optical sight; - Still playable.

The Bad
- Retired; - Monotonous and too long (for today); - Small selection of weapons (no reason to select NOT M4) - Sometimes freezes (that require to reboot PC).

The Bottom Line
Good, but out of date

The Good
The game purely mixes strategy gaming with action gaming leaving an excellent result, I mean this game is NOT gory, bloody, senseless stupidity, it's deeper than bullets, and gore flying all over the place, it makes sense, it has a good story, and you have to use your mind more than your finger to defeat missions, it's not action and shooting all the time. Cool variety of weapons and well built missions.

The Bad
The graphics are not good, the sound is average (a little lower than average), some missions are EXTREMELY difficult, while some are medium and easy.

The Bottom Line
NOT the kind of game for the fans of the Quake, Doom, and Hexen series, but is definetly a must play for strategy and real-time fans, and for people who like FPS (like me) but want to play FPS that aren't stupid and too gory. Also recommended for people who like this game: Goldeneye 007, The World is Not Enough, and Delta Force 2. A big ol' 5/5 for this Strategy/FPS mix.

The Good
I really don't like Delta Froce. Quite frankly, I find it hard to understand why anyone would like this game; other than the relatively new concept at the time, it hasn't got anything good in it. Play Rainbow Six instead.

The Bad
The game engine is a DISASTER. I don't understand why they stuck with a voxel engine when 3D hardware was already available, and even years before there was Quake, with its terrific 3D engine. This engine really ruins what might have been a great game, but currently the game is just this: terrible. It is slow, and I mean SLOW (I'm talking about around 5 frames per second at the lowest resolution it would allow (640x480) on my trusty Pentium 166 with Voodoo 2) and looks disgusting (the entire game has a sickening green hue).

As a result, the controls are a disaster, and gameplay is the same. This game is literally unplayable.

The Bottom Line
Crap. A basically good idea which was poorly executed, to say the least.