Customer Reviews

Delta Force Black Hawk Down

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(17)

 

 

Delta Force Black Hawk Down plays ok. It looks bloody awful though. Halo it isn't, Doom it isn't, an average FPS it is.
If you have seen the PS2 version like i have, you maybe left wondering why thge Xbox version looks like a completely different game, different as in no where near as good.

For die hard fans of the PC version only.

I've been eagerly awaiting this game for over a year now and now that I finally have it, I'm selling it back after just a week of giving it a chance to shine.

The graphics are fugly and look like they were rendered on a computer from 2000. I'm not seeing any improvement over the PC version of Delta Force Land Warrior from about that same year. In fact, I think DFLW was a better game.

One thing I did notice is that--just like in the Delta Force Land Warrior PC game--you can shoot an enemy in the big toe and they'll die. Pitiful.

The single player missions are.... artificial. They don't feel very realistic in nature. "Oh, military intelligence says we've got 60-100 hostiles in the area with armed vehicles and RPGs? Okay, let's send in 4 guys on foot." Please.

The multiplayer games might be the only saving grace, and even then I think Battlefield 2 is a far better game in that department. I don't have LIVE though, so can't honestly compare.

The user interface--particularly with selecting weapons and weapon modes--is utterly abysmal. Push one button to pull up the weapon selection menu, then use the thumb pad to move left or right to select a weapon and then down or up to select a mode for that weapon if it has multiple firing options (like single shot, full auto, and gernade launcher). This should be something that can be done fast and on the fly in the heat of combat--not something that will get you killed as you stand there like an idiot trying to figure out which is the smoke grenade and which is the flash-bang.

Enemy AI is weak. Just find a good spot and wipe them all out. Likewise, your squad's AI is weak. Order them to toss a frag grenade into a room and they're just as likely to throw it into the room as they are to bounce it off the wall right next to you and blow up the whole squad.

All in all, I'm just going to see if I can get some of my money back by trading the game in at Game Stop. It feels like Novalogic put out a game that wasn't ready to be put out yet simply because they were trying to meet a deadline and/or salvage as much money as possible prior to the Xbox 360 coming out. And the result is simply a very disappointing game.

Why oh why do the Playstation 2 owners get a spanky all new version of Deltaforce Black Hawk Down complete with spanky new visuals while the Xbox owners are served second best sub par rubbish? The Xbox owners get an average direct from PC conversion complete with coverted visuals from the original PC version of Deltaforce Black Hawk Down that were never that hot in the first place, all those years ago. If anything, the Xbox owners whould have be served a superior version over the Playstation 2 version.

Signed: One very unhappy Xbox owner :(

Everything I had read about this game said that it was going to be a really good game. A bunch of my friends and I rushed out at lunch the day it came out and bought copies. We seriously played it for a half hour and then returned it.

The single player is decent, at best. Online is atrocious! They tout this game as being capable of handling 50 players in one room. Maybe on one LOCAL connection, but not over Live. Voice is delayed about 5 seconds. The graphics (on & offline) are at best mediocre. If this game had come out two years ago, it still wouldn't be considered cutting edge. Depth perception is poor...it is hard to distinguish anyone at more than 10 feet. Zoom...horrible. Gernades? Can't use them online...network couldn't handle it.

I returned this game to my store and they were nice enough to give me store credit. I pre-paid the new Ghost Recon instead. Will be a much better game if it follows the Ubi-Soft formula.

Do yourself a favor...buy something else.

OK,first off, I own this game on computer, and it is awesome on computer. When I first saw that it was going to be a console game, I went crazy! 50 people on Xbox Live!?! Whatever you say(LAGFEST!) I reserved this game thinking it would be flippin sweet. HA HA!!! wow....i was wrong! When i picked this game up I couldnt wait to get home and throw it in my Xbox. First, i tried the single player campaign, it was the same as the PC version, which was...great on PC...on the console version...its crap! Then i wanted to see how this 50 players on Live would work...so i went on Live...it took for flippin ever to join a game...i never found a 50 player game either...besides...i joined a game that had like 22 people....talk about a lagfest!!! This stupid thing always pops up that says game no longer available...and sometimes when i have to reload the connesction servers suck so bad that my weapon doesnt stop reloading and i cant shoot. Oh, and when i try to snipe people i cant because they lag so flippin bad! Overall i give this game 2 stars because the concept online is cool. Dont buy this game! im goin to trade it in for something better. People, if you want a good war game...play Ghost Recon 2!

Delta Force Black Hawk Down is a direct port of the PC game. The same graphics, missions, weapons, ect. This is still a great game in many ways, but the dated graphics would be easier to tolerate if the console ports had been released about a year earlier. Most of the missions are well done and involve very realistic combat situations. The training mission is another story. "Okey soldier, for your first day of basic training we will put you in a black hawk helicopter and set you down in front of a bunch of armed enemy troops and gun trucks. After that, you will be sent out into a live mine field to retrieve an envelope of no importance at all. THEN we will take you back to base and teach you how to use weapons." The mission menu lets you select from more than one mission at a time allowing you more choice than most other games. The AI is the biggest problem in the game. The enemy AI is not very good and your allies are even worse. Tons of times I've seen an enemy walk right up to one of my squadmates and execute him with a shot to the head while my squadmate didn't even turn around. As mentioned in another review, civilians cannot be killed detracting from the realism. They also act strange. I don't know about you, but I don't think I would run out into the middle of a firefight just so I could throw rocks at the foriegn troops. Your squadmates also show absolutely no personality. They never talk, warn you of enemy soldiers or complement on your aim. The sounds of battle are pretty good and the voice acting is great. If you already have the PC Delta Force Black Hawk Down, there isn't any reason to get this one.

This has to be one of the worst games I have ever played. The graphics are just horrible the framerate is subpar. When playing on-line you see your teammates going through walls and you lose them. The weapons stink and load times are long long for an xbox game. The animations when hitting a bad guy is horrible. The off-line missions are short and boring. This game was to be great for the on-line play but that is one of the worst on-line games ever.. save your money guys.. get ghost recon summit strike next week.. that should be great..

Ok, so i donot own this game, i have however seen other people playing it in a local store. On looking for a cheaper deal here at Amazon and reading the reviews i was left in doubt. 1 star reviews and 5 star reviews? im left thinking that the 1 star reviews are from customers, games players and the over the top 5 star reviews are from the people behind Black Hawk Down.

Did not rate this game at all. It lacks all Radness. Peace!

If you like military shooters than this game is definitely for you. Maybe if you dont' like them, you wont like this game much, but then, why would you buy it? This game has many weapons and vehicles that you constantly use in single and multi player. It is a great shooter, however the reason i gave it a "4" is because shooting is pretty much all you do. Every mission you have to retrieve an envelope or something like that, but you might as well have just left that out of the game and let people shoot at the enemy the whole time because its fun in this game, but with the envelopes, its not adding fun, its adding plot. So basically buy this game if your into shooters, if you think shooters are ok, dont buy it because it could have been a lot more creative in its mission plots