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Dropship: United Peace Force 
Developer(s) Team Soho Publisher(s) Platform(s) PlayStation 2 Release date(s) - PAL January 18, 2002
- NA June 12, 2002
Genre(s) Flight simulator Mode(s) Single-player Rating(s) - ELSPA: 11
Media/distribution DVD-ROM Dropship: United Peace Force is a flight simulator combat game for the PlayStation 2, released in 2002. The player assumes the role of a pilot in the United Peace Force, a fictional multinational military organisation charged with combating terrorism and organized crime across the world. The game itself is set in 2050.
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Gameplay
The game features a number of futuristic aircraft, including agile fighters, and slower transport aircraft. The game also features levels in which the player drives military vehicles such as armored personnel carriers.
Unlike many science fiction flight simulator games, Dropship is set in the near future, and the vehicles and weapons, although futuristic, are grounded in reality, and bear many recognizable traits of modern military aircraft. The game has missions where the player must fly low not to be spotted, protect vulnerable craft and deliver/pick up valuable cargo. Another feature of the game is the VTOL ability of most of the game's aircraft, allowing the player to switch to a hover mode and land the aircraft manually.
Origins
After seeing the sci-fi concept of a military dropship being launched from a space platform; for delivering troops and vehicles to any part of a planet so well realised in the movie Aliens, many developers had expressed an interest in creating the experience within a videogame.[citation needed] Joe Money and Nick Ryan were able to get their take on this choice concept green-lighted at SCEE's Camden studio.
Scaling down the project
The project was first made public in April 2000, along with a host of other PlayStation 2 titles from SCEE's various studios. From the offset, the title promised a chance to pilot a dropship from planetary orbit, straight down to a combat zone. Pre-rendered images released at the time pointed to just such an experience.[1] The mock ups also show craft that are far closer to sci-fi spaceships than the designs that would later appear.[2]
North American Release
The US PlayStation division, SCEA, opted to not publish the title. It was instead picked by a smaller publisher, BAM! Entertainment.
Though the game was critically acclaimed[citation needed], it was a commercial flop.
External links
- Official Website
- Dropship: United Peace Force at MobyGames
- Behind-the-scenes feature on the game's development Quicktime: 4min Dur
Categories:- 2002 video games
- PlayStation 2 games
- PlayStation 2-only games
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