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This game is a horrible waste of time and money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 20
Date: September 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Oh, my. What an awful, awful game. I can't believe I spent money on this sucking black hole of mediocrity. The box states that it includes "solo campaign" play, but in actuality, it just includes "practice sessions" where you can play on the various maps that are used in multiplay. There is no attempt at plot or continuity, you just choose whatever map you want to play in a series of disconnected scenes.
If that wasn't bad enough, the online play is awful. Infogrames doesn't support this title with their own servers, they just include a tool to find multiplayer games that other people are running themselves, some of which you won't even be able to access without a password, some of which if you do access the hosts will just boot you off since you're a total stranger. Out of the remainder, connections fail frequently, and even if you do manage to stay in, the game sessions only last around four minutes a pop. Once the major objectives are complete the game is done unless you want to play on the same board again.
There are none of the traditional staples of online shooter games here; no deathmatch, capture the flag, or anything else. Instead players simply attempt to set a bomb, steal a weapon prototype or take hostages. Once any of these things are accomplished the game is over.
Oh, and if you actually want to play in one of these online debacles, you'll have to download a couple of hours worth of updates (it was for me, I have a 56K connection), which, again, Infograme doesn't host and you'll have to use various clunky mirror sites, bogged down with advertisements and unneeded webpages.
Finally, if you manage to do this, and still want to play, look out: this thing crashed my system over and over and over. I have a nice system: 1.6 Gig Pentium Processor 128 MB G4 video card, 256 RAM, 20 G harddrive, etc, etc. At one point, my internet browser went postal on me and started dialing up my ISP repetitively until I uninstalled everything and completely shut down my system. I have never had this happen before with any software.
Please, don't buy this steaming pile of a product. Buy anything else, thirty dollars worth of silly putty, something. Just stay away from this game.

Dumb Game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: July 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

One of the worst games I have ever played. Play counter-strike.

Tactical-Ops, Assault on Terror

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: September 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is perfect in essence, apart from the few hackers that pop up from time to time. You won't find a more proffesional online experience anywhere else. The graphics and sound do the job well and compatibility seems to be at a premium.

If you're new to first person shooters be warned though, a lot of tac ops players have this game down to a science by now and you will definatly spend hours getting shot whilst getting no kills yourself. By playing this game online you'll be volunteering yourself up as a sterotype 'movie extra' getting taken out by proffesional geek gamers round after round. That said it's all the more rewarding when you do take down a few nurds.

A fun little LAN party game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I started playing UT in 1999 and was introduced to Tactical Ops at a LAN party. I soon downloaded all the UT patches (which I can't find online anymore) and worked up my own install for my friends to use on our test network at work. This game is not overly resource intensive and gameplay is quite good, even on slower machines. I decided to buy the retail version for my travel laptop because I play UT2k4 more than I do UT99 and it saves me just a little bit on drive space over the UT99 install with added TO mods. Overall this is a very good game, excellent for the price I got it for (less than $7 US with shipping) and makes a great addition to any FPS collection.

WARNING: Highly Addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 21
Date: March 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

*** If you're not familiar with Counter-Strike... ***
In general terms, Tactical Ops is a first-person shooter with realism added into it. There are 2 opposing teams - Special forces and Terrorists. The player chooses one of the teams to play on. There are various weapons available: pistols, sub-machine guns, rifles, and grenades. These weapons are bought with money that is assigned to each player, which accumulates with more kills the player makes. The objective of the game is to eliminate the players on the opposing team by killing them or rescuing hostages. Unlike Doom, Quake or Duke Nukem 3D games, players do not respawn immediately after they die. They need to wait until the round ends - when one of the teams is eliminated. This game began as a mod (modification) of Unreal Tournament a few years ago and eventually became retail - following the footsteps of Counter-Strike, a Half-Life mod.

*** If you have already tried Counter-Strike... ***
Tactical Ops is very similar to CS (Counter-Strike). A major difference between the two, which may have caused many of the players to switch from CS to this game, is the dynamics. When someone shoots you in CS, you immediately slow down a lot - thus, giving that person a high advantage, and which usually means that whoever shoots first would normally get the kill. This is not true in Tactical Ops - your speed remains unchanged even when someone is shooting at you, making the game more fair. Also, the gameplay is a little faster, meaning that the walking speed is slightly faster compared to that of CS. In addition, the height of jumping is a bit higher in Tactical Ops. HE grenades are more realistic: maximum damage is instant death when the player gets too close to one when it explodes. Graphics are slightly more crisp in Tactical Ops than in CS. The substantial dynamics of this game have caused me to be entirely absorbed with this game.

*** If you're already playing Tactical Ops... ***
This retail version has a slight improvement in graphics - I personally think the graphics right now are superb already. More maps are included in this version. A few new weapons are out and new skins for some of the current weapons are revamped. New female skins for both Special Forces and Terrorists are available. Other new features may have also been included - check with the official Tactical Ops site. Gameplay should be identical to that of Version 2.2.

*** Conclusion ***
A very playable, absorbing, dynamic and stress-relieving game! Though unoriginal, this game is highly recommended for players that like first-person shooters. If you've got good skills/strategy/tactics in first-person shooting, then Tactical Ops is very adaptable, though new techniques such as timing grenade throwing, and learning to reload at the right times need to be learnt. A must-buy!

TO rules, excellent gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: April 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing TO for about a year and still do not tire of it!
You fight in two opposing teams, either as terrorists or special forces. You fight with realistic weapons such as the Heckler & Koch Mp5, a submachine gun, used by special forces all over the world or with various sniper rifles etc... The missions include classic hostage rescue and bomb scenarios or both.
TO has good, imaginative and really tactical maps and has been constantly improved.
It is somewhat similar to Counter Strike, it's main edge though, is that it is based on the UNREAL TOURNAMENT engine which although relying on your CPUs power runs smoother and faster than the Halflife engine (used for CounterStrike) does. In contrast to most new tactical shooters you do not need a state of the art PC to have fun. A PIII 500 Mhz and a Nvidia TNTII video card with 32MB RAM are pretty much sufficient.
Resulting from the various previous (and highly succesful) mods, there already is a huge and tight online community in place, where cheating is rare and beginners are usually welcome!
This game has in fact been an essential part of my life during the last months and I do not regret it. The 30 bucks are well spent!

The Best Game, Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Yes! After playing TacOps for nearly 6 months straight, this has to be one of my favorite games ever. Sure, not the most original, but definitely one of the best! Cool weapons, simple controls, and hard-core gamers aplenty online make this my favorite. This game has more of an arcade feel than Return to Castle Wolfenstein or Medal of Honor, so twitchers might enjoy it more. And just like UT, you can make your own maps, or download hundreds more.It runs fine even on older machines(and Macs too) Very fun, and much much(x100!) better than CounterStrike.

Buy This Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you love Unreal Tournament and hate the evilness known only as Counterstrike, buy this game!!!!

Great fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Is it's release innocuously timed with current events/tragedies? Yes. Is it true it's not exactly the bleeding edge of 3D engine tech? Yes. ...[Is it great?] YES.
This mod has been a labor of love, and the dedication is really apparent. It already has a very strong online community, which will only grow with this release.
I must admit I'm uncertain about the single player aspects, but given the level of talent on the development team, I wouldn't bet against it being fantastic.

Better than Counter-strike

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I heard of this game from "Computer Games" magazine. I thought at first that it would have the same playability as UT, but actually it remodels players, weapons, and just about everyhing except the sweet graphics and smooth gameplay. What's really amazing is playing over the internet...you will be connected in less than 10 seconds! Counter-strike took minutes and many server failures. this uses the UT engine, but with the new realistic damage, player, and weapon modifications you can barely tell. BUY THIS GAME OR DOWNLOAD IT!!!

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