Delta Force 4 Black Hawk Down PC Game Full Version Free Download
Delta Force 4 - Black Hawk Down: is a deeply
flawed shooter that has a moment of disappointment or frustration for every
moment of fun.
Novalogic's Delta Force was originally one of
the foremost tactical shooter series in computer gaming. However, if last
year's Task Force Dagger is any indication, the series is in decline. The
newest game in the series, Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, focuses on the UN
intervention in Somalia in the 1990s, as portrayed in the popular novel and
motion picture Black Hawk Down. The new Delta Force game makes some
improvements to the series, but it's difficult to take seriously, especially
considering some of the game's action sequences, which resemble old arcade
games more than they do actual military operations.
One of Black Hawk Down's massive environments.
Black Hawk Down is loosely inspired by missions
undertaken by elements of Delta Force, the US 75th Ranger Regiment, the 10th
Mountain Division, and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The game
is also filled with real-world vehicles and weapons, but don't let that fool
you. Black Hawk Down is mostly a straightforward, simplistic action game with
some real-world trappings.
The game's first single-player mission provides
a good idea of what you can expect from Black Hawk Down. It lifts ideas from
the movie and throws them together in an unrealistic and clumsy fashion. The
mission itself resembles a rail shooter, an arcade-style shooting game in which
you're forced to move along a predetermined path while shooting any enemies in
your way. For whatever reason, developers insisted on using this idea over and
over. In the first mission, you take part in a rescue operation for a UN convoy
that's come under attack in the countryside. You operate a .50-caliber machine
gun on one of a group of humvees that blithely drive right into hordes of enemy
foot soldiers and vehicles approaching from all sides instead of slowing to
properly engage the enemy, stopping, or taking an alternate route. You have no
control over the foolish humvee drivers, but instead simply have to blast each
new target that appears.
Once you've finished this shooting-gallery
segment--and most of the game seems like a glorified shooting gallery, since
Somali gunmen will often stand in neat little rows --you run on foot to a small
enemy camp to snipe more bad guys. Then, it's a return to more rail shooter
action, as you use a minigun mounted on a Black Hawk helicopter to slaughter
more unthinking enemies. All this in the span of 5 or 10 minutes.
You'll wish that Black Hawk Down's gameplay were
as dramatic as its visuals sometimes are.
Anyone looking for a realistic military
simulation will be very disappointed with Black Hawk Down. But if you're
looking for a simple, old-fashioned shooter, you may enjoy parts of it,
assuming you can put up with some major problems. The single-player mission
goals often seem contrived or repetitive, and the campaign as a whole seems
disjointed and amateurish. It's poorly balanced too--most missions are far too
easy, but a few require endless and endlessly frustrating retries. The missions
are also unoriginal. Understandably, they lift ideas from the Black Hawk Down
book and film, but without doing them any justice. One mission even attempts,
however poorly, to re-create the Omaha Beach landing sequence from Medal of
Honor: Allied Assault, of all things.
As in previous Delta Force games, Black Hawk
Down's AI is extremely poor. The supposedly "elite" Delta Force and
Ranger troops shoot each other, push you into the line of fire, and repeatedly
miss targets literally right in front of them. Their aim is so atrocious that
they can actually walk right past an enemy in a narrow tunnel and not hit their
target. The Somali fighters are just as bad. At point-blank range, these
militia soldiers often turn away from you and shoot a nearby wall instead. So,
it's basically up to you to play Rambo, running around and shooting all the
sitting ducks. In fact, the game even keeps score for you--you can expect to
kill more than 1,500 Somalis during the campaign.
Still, Black Hawk Down at least tries to immerse
you in the action and actually does a half-decent job of making you feel like
you're in the middle of a war zone. Amid the mass starvation and clan fighting,
you'll need to make your way through poverty-stricken towns filled with
innocent civilians and gun-toting thugs alike. Some agitated civilians even
hurl rocks and shout at you to leave them alone. The missions at least have
some superficial variety, since you'll have to complete objectives like
securing weapons caches, assaulting strongholds in towns, destroying bridges,
and taking part in the climactic fighting of the Battle of Mogadishu--but once
you actually play through them, you'll find that the missions are either too
easy or too frustrating.
As it is, the solo campaign is hard to take
seriously, given all its problems. Black Hawk Down at least offers fairly
extensive multiplayer options. Though there are no cooperative modes, the game
does include deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, king of the hill,
and other competitive modes. These don't break any new ground, but the game's
unusual setting and large maps make them more interesting than they'd otherwise
be. Then again, the large maps can encourage tedious sniper duels, and they
also make it incredibly easy to sit at an enemy respawn point and repeatedly
kill opponents off before they can react. The multiplayer maps do let you
control machine gun emplacements and vehicle turrets, but you can't actually
drive or pilot the vehicles yourself. Rather, you hop aboard them as they
automatically make their way along predetermined paths. In fact, these vehicles
may remind you of a slow-paced amusement park ride, just with automatic
weapons.
However, Black Hawk Down does look much better
than any previous Delta Force game. Though it's no Unreal Tournament 2003, and
it has some bizarre polygon clipping problems, Black Hawk Down does have very
good outdoor lighting and good environments. Somali towns look believably run
down, since they're full of rusted tin roofs, shattered windows, and other
signs of damage and dilapidation. Bodies of water look impressive, reflecting
the sun and frothing under helicopter prop wash. At times, Black Hawk Down's
presentation actually excels, especially depicting chaotic combat in huge
outdoor areas. Bullets kick up sand and tear leaves off palm trees, and
vehicles erupt in brilliant explosions. Black Hawk helicopters come roaring in
low, throwing up a cloud of dust and causing the trees to sway, while their
minigun bullets spark off metal roofs. Also, the game's vehicles and weapons
look decent enough, though the game's character models and animations could
have used a lot more work. The Somalis look like armed circus performers, as
they die a variety of comically acrobatic deaths.
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