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We are still waiting for the game to be sent to the house.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: May 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is taking so long just to get to our house it's not funny I will never buy anything from this company again. It's now going on two months FROM THE TIME I put in the order and my son is very disappointed that he has to wait so long. They sent him the second half of the game so he can't play it until the first half gets here. That is why we are so upset with this company. And I was told that they would sent it over night which they didn't. So I would think twice before anyone else should order anything from this company. There all lies just to get you to buy from them.

BORED TO DEATH/SCREWED TO DEATH

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 18
Date: February 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For the PRICE and the NAME of the maker you would expect more. This is an ONLINE game that ONLY works if you install the included SPYWHARE that sends your internet protection into spasums everytime you turn on your computer. If you played Black Hawk Down and thought that OH another title from the same people IT MUST BE GOOD well IT'S NOT!! IT SUCKS!! IT SUCKS!! NOVALOGIC should be ashamed for putting out such GARBAGE and THEN trying to SELL an expansion pack. WHAT does the expansion pack clean the BOREDOME! I think all the people who got RIPPED off on this game should express how the feel!

A useful review for you dial up gamers out there.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When you read the blurbs located in various locations on the box it states that:

Breakthrough technology allows you to play on a 56k connection as "smooth as silk".

I read that and thought, "Ahhh, the replacement for Counter-Strike and Battlefield I've been looking for!" Not true. Apparently silk is not as smooth as I was lead to believe. Don't misunderstand me, however. When I was able to get into a game I enjoyed it very much. Usually I was booted within five minutes by the hosts of the game for high latency. Normal ping was around 300-400 on the smaller servers. Trying to play on the larger servers with 100-150 players is impossible on dial-up.

If you have broadband, which most people do, you won't experience these problems. If you are stuck with dial-up as your internet connection don't buy this.

Poor effort by Novalogic

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Joint operations: typhoon rising is what happens when you rush to put out a game in order to compete with other WW2 FPS shooters. Novalogic claimed this was the game to beat Battlefield 1942 - WRONG!! The graphics are blocky, the gameplay is choppy even with video settings at LOW RESOLUTION, enemy A.I. is average at best and almost all the time you get killed, u never see where its coming from. The game's original score pales in comparison to the music from BF1942 and the multiplayer they promised to be as smooth as silk on a 56K modem is utter garbage. There are numerous patches available for download, but you never notice the difference. I play on a P4 2.8ghz with HT Technology
Nvidia 128 MB Geforce FX 5200 Ultra
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
256MB ram
850 mhz front side bus

These are more than the required hardware for smooth play, yet the game is a complete mess. I play Battlefield 1942 on the same machine and the graphics are great, the music is fantastic, and the expansion packs: Road to Rome & Secret Weapons of WW2) are a great addition. Please do not purchase this,...even when it gets to bargain bin. Novalogic failed with this one.

Nice game, but....................

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Looking for a war game that has realism, most of the current weapons of todays army, and vehicles (including helicoptors) that you can ride? This game has it all!! BUT, you'll find yourself respawning countless times in fustrating, after fustrating attempts to get on the battlefield with those weapons and rides. Soon after getting the hang of things you'll find lag and more experienced players kniving and shooting you back to respawn time and time again. I've played far cry and countless other war games and this one is for the very very very patient. Team play, yes, this game has that too However, no one actually uses the controls to "team play" and you end up one for all and all for one throwing as much firepower, grenades, and missles as you can just to stay alive for 2 seconds.

If you don't mind respawning 100 times a match, enjoy semi-teamplay (I use the term very loosely), and firing up to date weapons, then this game is for you.

Good but buggy and frequented by vegetables...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When people work together in this game it works really well and is quite enjoyable. However most of the time it consists of random conflict where noone listens or wants to use any strategy or as the title suggests "Joint Operations" ie combined arms warfare. Instead they treat it as a shoot-em-up and run around like headless chicken causing games to drag out and become infuriating as well as extremely boring. The unrealistic movement becomes almost nauseating: players frequently move and jump around ridiculously to avoid enemy fire...there is no "stamina" level to prevent this. The vehicle physics are appallingly bad (probably the worst I've ever encountered) and the vehicles themselves are not survivable (apart from APCs which are almost impossible to destroy with heavy machinguns but not rockets). Weaponry is not much use either. For example the Barrett M82 was designed to take out enemy APCs etc, yet in the game it can't destroy anything apart from soldiers.
Within a week of playing this you will be cursing "noob base-rapers" and "campers". The level of stupidity displayed by people is sometimes appalling...new players will simply NOT work together period. There is no in-game device to ensure teamwork so they make it an incredibly frustrating experience. With a good team which works together the game is great but the buggy physics, pathetic vehicles, and unrealistic weaponary RUIN it.

A real review

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: July 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I swear, Novalogic has hired a slew of undercover marketers to spam sites with "this game is great" nonsense. I have played for about twenty hours, and no matter how much better I get at this game, I still find it incredibly boring and limited. A handful of vehicles and a major lack of terrain diversity don't help the slow gameplay which consists of running here and there, then hoping lying in the tall grass will hide you from your enemues. It rarely does, but you won't be able to see anything past the tall grass you're lying in, so the enemy can see and kill you with no problem. Then you have to wait around to be healed or you can respawn, then trek all the way back to the front. Almost the entire time is spent waitng, hiding, traveling in this game. There are many other problems in this game, too many to mention here.

Followup Review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: June 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off i woulld like to aplogize to those of you who were fooled by the last guys review...
This game does not now and will never have anything to do with EA Games or the battlefield 1942 franchise. It is made by novalogic and is the next step in there sereis of their acclaimed counter-terrorism games; the deltaforce series. I would give this game a rating of three stars because the game is very fun and the vehichles add a unique twist on gameplay but very little seems to have changed since delta force black hawk down. The weapon models are exactly the same and their seems to be very little graphical improvement since bhd. otherwise the beta was very fun. I would say that this game is a definate must-buy for hardcore fans of the franchise but otherwise look out for the upcoming battlefield2 for vehicular and classbased tactical combat. The game will have all the classic deltaforce multiplayer matches including deathmatch,team deathmatch and king of the hill but the addition of the vehichles should make for an interesting change in tactics.Hopefully the singleplayer will be a littl less objective oriented and more open ended. For those of you who have not played the demo, download it from novalogic.com

Greedy Novalogic - LAN users beware

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: July 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have a LAN in my home, and I bought this game looking forward to playing it with my wife. I was pleased to find out that the CD did not need to be in the drive to play the game. But, after installing it on both computers, I could not connect them via the LAN. Turns out you need as many copies of the game as you have computers. This is verified via the CD-key you use to activate the game. To me, this is cheap on the part of Novalogic. Why shouldn't I be allowed to play the game I purchased on my own LAN with my own wife?

Potential!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is game with a ton of potential. I played the beta and demo before I purchased it. (The beta ran much better than either the demo or retail version) Unfortunately it has 1 major flaw, Frames Per Second. On servers larger that 64 player, the game will often fall into the single digits for FPS. This makes the game competely unplayable. This is NOT tied to any hardware specs on my PC. I have done a fair amount of research on this and come to the conclusion that it has to do with the changes in netcode that were implemented for the retail version. I suggest you go out to the Nova logic forums and check the sticky notes on FPS issues. There are hundreds of posts all saying the same thing. FPS sucks on larger servers and when there is significant fighting going on. The most frustrating thing of all is Nova has yet to respond to any of these posts.

Once Novalogic addresses this issue it will be an awesome game. Until then I'd wait until there is a fix.

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