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Armed Forces Corp / Terrorist Takedown 2 - Action Pack

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this game is fun but very basic, the controls are standard shooter and the graphics and IA are also lower level, it only took me 3 hours to walk through the game from start to finish on the moderate difficulty level. this would be a good beginers game but for those who are used to games like Fear or Fallout its a bit of a drag.

*This is only a review for Armed Forces Corp. I'll add a review for Terrorist Takedown 2 when I play it.*

City Interactive's SAS Secure Tomorrow was a blast. A fun and simple shoot 'em up that was pretty polished for a budget game. Armed Forces Corp. looked very similar so I thought I'd give it a shot.

Unlike SAS, there's no opening movie here, but you soon figure out that you and your two sidekicks are mercenaries hired to retrieve a hard drive that was stolen from your employer. You sneak in to the competitor's headquarters through the sewer and shoot a million... what? Security guards or something? That part was never really explained.

Unsurprisingly, in about the middle there's a twist.

The problem is that Armed Forces Corp is *too* similar to SAS, but is lacking some of what made that game a winner. AFC also uses Monolith's Jupiter EX engine, so it looks good and the combat is furious and intense. But the first half of the game is storming an office building that looks almost the same as the one in SAS. The models, weapons. sounds and everything else look about the same as well. In a way, this game feels like a mod of that one (which was kind of a mod of F.E.A.R. I guess). And familiarity breeds contempt.

Also, the ending was weird and unexpected and way too early. A cutscene started that I thought it was going to lead to another plot twist that would lead into a third section of the game, but instead the names started rolling.

On the plus side, the second half of the game (once you leave the by now too familiar office building) takes you through a subway station and that was fun. And like F.E.A.R. and SAS, the combat is a blast.

Armed Forces Corp is a disappointment after SAS, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a fun, solid old-school shooter. If you liked the combat in F.E.A.R. or SAS and are craving more of it and if you see this game priced less than a McDonald's value meal, it is worth picking up.