Delta Force: Land Warrior

Delta Force: Land Warrior
North American boxart
Developer(s)	NovaLogic
Publisher(s)	NovaLogic (U.S.)
Designer(s)	Wes Eckhart
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)	November 7, 2000[1]
Genre(s)	Tactical first-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: T (Teen)
Media/distribution	CD-ROM
System requirements Processor: Pentium 400 MHz or Higher Video Card: Direct 3D Compatible Hard Drive: 200 MB CD-ROM: 4X RAM: 64 MB

Delta Force: Land Warrior is a tactical first-person shooter video game. It is the third game in the Delta Force series produced by NovaLogic, and is the sequel to Delta Force 2.

Gameplay

Delta Force: Land Warrior features 30 missions. The game takes place in various places including Africa, Indonesia and South America. Objectives range from eliminating high-risk targets such as power plants to rescuing VIPs held hostage. Before deployment, players get briefed and are tasked with picking the specific equipment and gear they want for the mission, allowing them to define their strategy beforehand, e.g: a stealthy approach with silenced weaponry, or an all-out assault with heavy weaponry. The player is inserted into the objective area by a multitude of means, including insertion by helicopter or parachute. Once on the ground, players can navigate the terrain through a use of a mini-map, containing waypoints pointing the player to their objective(s). In certain missions, the player leads a squad, allowing him to issue orders to his teammates, although the majority of missions pits the player alone against the enemy. A map editor is included, allowing players to modify existing maps, or create new ones.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer allows up to 50 players to compete in the game modes Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, King Of The Hill, Capture the Flag, Flagball, in which up to 4 teams compete in order to capture one flag located in the middle of the battlefield, and Coop mode, which allows four players to work together to complete the standard singleplayer missions.

Synopsis

Plot

The game starts with the hostage rescue in one of the Great Pyramids of Giza. It is later discovered that the terrorists involved belong to the Armed People's Front (the AMF) and are planning attacks on Western factions in Egypt. The Delta seize weapons caches at a digsite in Western Egypt and are led to the AMF's leader, Meinhard Kreider, who is captured in a raid on his fortress. After Kreider's arrest, AMF forces lead an attack on a Mediterranean oilrig but are stopped by the Deltas. Two weeks pass, and the terrorist front New Dawn is revealed by Nikogos Fazekas, who is intent on getting Kreider released from NATO prison. New Dawn launches several attacks on the West, from taking hostages in Mayan ruins to hiding weapons and drugs in Lebanon and Indonesia. A Spetsaz officer taken hostage in Lebanon is rescued in underground tunnel systems by Longbow, Delta Team's sniper. Pitbull, the gunner, destroys drug shipments in Indonesia. Mako, the underwater expert, takes captive several New Dawn officials during an ambush in the Banda Sea. Gascan, explosive expert, rescues the head of the World Bank in a Japanese saiguden. Finally the team comes together to rescue the American ambassador to Mexico in the Palenque Ruins and stops the delivery of a radiological bomb from the Yucatan to Los Angeles. However, another radiological bomb escaped to an abandoned detention center near Ciudad Juarez, but was seized in time by Delta Force members Snakebite and Pitbull. Kreider was finally released by NATO forces in a ploy to corner Fazekas. Kreider was recaptured on his way to Colombia and Fazekas was tracked by Mako to Easter Island, where he was killed in an underground labyrinth of tunnels. The APF and New Dawn were broken up after Fazekas' death and Kredier's recapture.

Reception

Delta Force: Land Warrior received mixed or average reviews. It holds a Metacritic score of 7.1.^[2] Gamespy gave it an 8.3 of 10,^[3] calling it "the best distance squad combat game on the market.", albeit citing problems with the A.I. Likewise, IGN gave the game 7.3,^[4] reporting the same problems; the enemy being too easy to defeat, A.I. problems, and also realism issues.

Notes

1. ^ http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/delta-force-land-warrior
2. ^ http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/deltaforcelandwarrior?q=Delta%20Force%20Land%20Warrior
3. ^ http://archive.gamespy.com/reviews/december00/df/
4. ^ http://pc.ign.com/articles/164/164805p1.html

Further reading

• Review by John Callaham

External links

• NovaLogic official website
• NovaLogic's Online Gaming Site