Operation Wolf

Buy Op - Wolf - it's a brilliant conversion and you will get a lot of fun out of it.

A brilliant conversion with tons of atmosphere and playability.

The tricks that you discover after you have played Op - Wolf a good few times, like shooting the birds, and the pig that scampers on to pick up more ammo. It is this kind of attention to details that makes for a good coin-op conversion irrespective of the graphical capabilities of the computer you are playing the game on.

Special mention has to be made of the quality of the graphics on the ST and Amiga versions - the armoured cars, choppers and gun boats are identical to their counterparts in the coin-op. I suppose a certain degree of near-coin-op graphics is now taken for granted in ST and Amiga conversions - but what pleased me particularly on the ST version is the little details of game play that have not been forgotten.

If you haven't got a light-gun yet, this will sure push you into getting one. It's probably more suited to the Sega - and its light-gun - than any other machine. Buy it!

Accordingly, I can unreservedly advise all those 64 owners with a compatible mouse to rush out and buy Op Wolf immediately. However, all you joystick wielders (the large majority by far) should saunter out casually and purchase it at your leisure - and get a mouse, too.

Operation Wolf is a brilliant game - if you've got a light gun, put on your combat gear and go on a mission to liberate a copy from your local Sega shop!

The best of the 8-bit versions with not only the pace of the coin-op but the violence to match. Operation Wolf shows off to perfection the Amstrad's ability to combine high levels of detail with extensive colours. Together with a changing style of play on each screen this version looks, plays and basically IS extremely good.

It's a perfect conversion and as such it's a fantastic game both aesthetically and in terms of playability. The cross-hair system works a lot better than expected and the whole feel is just so good it virtually IS the coin-op.

Of course the Amiga version is arcade perfect too, with the only real difference being meatier sound effects, slightly refined graphics and the need for less disk swapping as it comes on just two disks (rather than ST's staggering three!). Go get it!

An army of large, bold characters rampage through the levels with as much detail as the arcade original. Although things become confusing when the screen gets crowded, distant soldiers inevitably lose some of their detail. However, the sheer speed and ferocious action over-rules any minor quibbles to be found in this excellent coin-op conversion.

Operation Wolf was a classic in its day, but today it looks tired against the latest selection of blood 'n' bullets blasters. Despite that, it's immensely playable on the Engine - more so than the 16-bit versions.

Op Wolf is both addictive and compelling. Shame about all the disk swapping but, Ocean say, that was the only way you could have the whole game.

While Operation Wolf is addictive and by no means easy, there is no getting away from its rather basic gameplay. Fortunately the frantic pace and spectacular graphics go a long way toward disguising this. So if you want a state of the art arcade machine in your Amiga, you will not be disappointed in Operation Wolf!

Operation Wolf is certainly one of the game history makers and has had a great impact on many games to come after it. It is a very basic, but nonetheless very famous arcade game. It probably earned its fame because for 1989, when games looked like Pang, Digger and such, it was extremely realistic and placed in the real world. The surroundings are amazingly well drawn, and so are your enemies. The story is simple. You're some kind of a commando, and you have to kill the bad guys.

Grafika ładna, animacja też dobra. Irytuje tylko mała ilość "żyć".

Cherigo, um país pequeno, acaba de sofrer um golpe de estado. O poder está ocupado agora por um ditador tirânico, que mandou o ex-presidente e todos os funcionários da embaixada do país para um campo de concentração. Você deve infiltrar-se no campo, libertar os prisioneiros e derrotar o ditador, resituindo o poder a quem de direito.

Suffering a slight loss in graphic definition and quality, this version nevertheless works well to recreate the style and presence of the Taito arcade machine.

The first thing that struck me about Operation Wolf was the incredible length of time that it took to actually get going. The title screen loaded, the music played, the credits appeared, the music stopped and it still wasn't ready! When it finally started I can't admit to being over keen on the control, as the bullets hardly ever seem to hit what you aim at. They seem to be more content to wander off and hit something else – like a hostage! The graphics and sound are very good, though, with large, colourful sprites and sampled effects, but when the game is filled with such long delays due to the awful multiload then it hardly seems worth it.

Nicht, daß ich ein Moralist wäre, mit der Zeit wird es mir zu blöd. OPERATION WOLF kann man mal spielen, aber so richtig gut ist es nicht, da helfen auch eine gute Grafik von Steve Wahid und ein prima Sound von Jonathan Dunn, der sich übrigens gut gemacht hat und bald wohl einen vollwertigen Ersatz für Martin Galway bieten wird, nicht viel. Was soll's...

Here's something you don't see everyday: a light gun game that's best played without a light gun! Strange but true, Operation Wolf is far more enjoyable when you mow down bad guys by moving a cursor around the screen. Each of the game's six stages is a war-torn battle zone, with locations including a jungle, command center, airport, and prison camp. One button is used to shoot, and the other throws grenades that inflict heavy damage. You'll have to constantly replenish you ammunition by shooting icons that appear in place of fallen soldiers. At any given moment there are plenty of vehicles and soldiers running across the screen to fire at. The action is frantic, but take care not to shoot the occasional prisoner or medic squad. So what's wrong with using the Zapper light gun? Well, besides the constant clicking noise, the gun causes too much flashing on the screen. Stick with a normal controller however and you'll definitely have a good time.

The NES edition was crippled in its visuals, in particular, and seemed disappointing in comparison to the coin-op version. And now that same NES edition is crippled even further on the Virtual Console, as here there's no way to use a Zapper light gun to play the game in the way it was originally intended. Nintendo's made it clear that little if any effort is being made with Virtual Console games to update them before they arrive in the Wii Shop, and that policy, though strict, works perfectly well for the majority of titles to hit the service. But Operation Wolf just doesn't work at all, and should never have been selected as an addition to the VC lineup without some sort of light gun compatibility solution. Stay far, far away from this new low on the Virtual Console – it's not worth anywhere near its 500 Wii Point asking price.