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Global Operations (more than another Counter-Strike clone)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As a very big fan of multiplayer FPS (first person shooter) games I had been anticipating Global Operations for quite a long time. I had heard that several people who had worked on CS were involved in the GO project. I downloaded the public beta as soon as I heard it was out, and boy was I impressed.

The gameplay has two different teams, usually the country's special-forces team pitted against a local guerilla or terrorist group. There are five player classes to choose from: sniper (sniper rifle + a pistol), a recon expert (submachine gun + pistol), commando (assualt rifle + submachine gun+ pistol), Heavy Gunner (machine gun + shotgun + pistol), and demolitions expert (grenade launcher + submachine gun + pistol). Each of the weapon slots a class has does not have to be filled, in other words, you dont have to have a gun or have all three weapon slots filled, it's just a nice feature. Another great feature is that the weapons your selected class normally uses are not restriced to just those weapons . For example a sniper can pick up a machine gun, and although it will reload slower and fire more inaccuratly than if a machine gunner used it, the sniper can sell it off the next round for a sniper rifle.

The weapon models and textures were beautiful and the detail to realism was astounding. The class selection works extremely well because you almost have to have different people be different classes in order to succeed, which I thought was a good way to make teams work more together. While the game is similar in many aspects to Counter-Strike (getting money for missions, buying your weapons. etc.) it added so many features missing in CS. The biggest of these was that in CS you bought your gun and that was what you got, but GO allows players to upgrade and personalize their weapons to what they want or what they think they need (I.E. you can put a scope on any rifle and silencers can be added to many of the weapons). The most detailed thing in the game were the weapons. The models use photographs which were textured on (they are pixture perfect), in addition to that all the weapon sounds, recoil, fire slecters(3 round burst fire,automatic, and semi-automatic) and reloads are based off the real gun. The one thing that i disliked about the beta was that after placing a silencer on a weapon, the damage it dealt was greatly reduced.

I recommend this to anyone who already enjoys tactical first person shooters or if you are a first time gamer looking for a realistic team based action game...

Did you play war as a kid?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the next best thing. Interact with players from all over the world. Cooperative gameplay with plenty of shooting and action. You can be a hero and save your teamates or be a coward and save your own... it's all up to you!

I love this game!

This is a great game and getting better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the better FPS out there. The biggest reason is that the MP mode really pushes team work and tactics. Its definitely not all run and gun like most deathmatch FPSs. Anynone who says it has bugs is right, except they have fixed all the known bugs in the 2.0 patch. The support by the developers for this game is the best I have seen. Within a week of some bugs being found they had a patch out and they continue to quickly support the game with help. I have very fewe problems with this game. It is really fun.

Again any problems someone has said they have had with this game before have been remidied. This game now seriously rocks.

Buy it and you will like it, I swear.

The best team-based FPS out the256re

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I recommend this game above any multiplayer squad-based shooter out there. But, you must have a fast internet connection and you must get the latest patches.

It runs fine for me on a P3 550MHz with 256MB RAM and a 32MB NVIDIA TNT2 video card. You wouldn't want much less than that.

I was a huge Counter-Strike fan, but I find this to be much better.

Can't get enough of it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is my all time favorite shooter. It has a great community of followers too.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm an avid fan of first-person shooters going back as far as the Doom and Duke Nukem days, and I love CounterStrike and Medal of Honor. So, I was really excited when I read the previews for Global Ops. After having played the full version, I can't tell you how disappointed I am. Firstly, the game play is TERRIBLE. There are so many bugs, it almost makes the game almost unplayable. Even when the game runs well, it's still annoying. Every level contains areas where people can hide in shadows making them virtually invisible, thereby requiring you to purchase and run around with vision aids. What good is it to have detailed character models and environments if you have to view everything through their annoying "Infrared" or "Night-vision" goggles? I might as well re-install Doom II. Also, the character responses to hits is non-existent. You can unload a full clip at point blank range and not know if you're even hitting your opponent until they just fall over. I can't tell you how many times I unloaded a full clip at someone and not even know if I hit them. Lastly, the ability to actually aim and shoot various weapons is frustrating. For example, when playing as a "Heavy Gunner" I often choose some sort of machine gun. This works well if your opponent is at a distance, but if someone gets close, you're history. You can unload 50+ rounds into someone at 20 ft and end-up getting killed by a handgun. I know the machine gun was designed for range, but does this make sense? This game could have been good, but I'm not sure any amount of patching can fix it. Save your money and get Medal of Honor or Jedi II.

THIS GAME [STINKS]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Save your money and do NOT buy this game. I love squad based first-person shooters, and I can't tell you how disappointed I am in this game. Download the public beta dome and give it a try before buying the full version. If you like the beta you'll like the full version, but let me warn you, the full version isn't any better than the beta demo.

Very lame

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

To keep it simple I will merely contrast these games to Medal of Honor and Wolfenstein as these are the other big shooters out. Wolfenstein and MOH are both easy to grasp your attention and become addictive. This game on the other hand, not quite SO....although they developed it for the whole realism concept, it really just doesnt quite get it. It's poorly developed, the graphics are inferior by today's standards and it's just no fun. IT has integrated voice menus as these other games do, only they [aren't very good]. Everyone sounds the same, like a robot. If you've played it, you know what I mean. The game tells you your objectives in the beginning, but as you get into each map, there is NO beacon to tell you where to go or what to do. As in Wolfenstein you choose out of a list of roles you wish to battle as...but what does it matter? If you're a detonation expert, you still have NO clue where you need to plant explosives nor defuse them. You have to do everything on your own in the single player game, there is no 'leader' telling you where your duty is needed...there is absolutley no clue. You'll repeatedly die before you have the chance to figure anything out and by then you'll be bored out of your mind. You cannot get new weapons because this game funcitons off of the money system...you gain money by how well you do...but since you will go in not knowing WHAT the heck you're doing, you will not gain much money, hence you cannot get better weapons, hence you will keep dying. This game has good potential to rank with similar style games like Half-Life's Counter-Strike (similar game play style) but for various reasons it will leave you bored. Don't waste your money as I did.

Get TACTICAL OPS instead of GLOBAL OPS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Dont be wasting your time with Global ops when u can play tactical ops.

Gloable Operation

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: January 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game needs to be completely redone.

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