Dropship

by Playstation

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• Great games for kids!

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000066JRD
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 11, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,103 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

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Dropship: United Peace Force invites you to deploy and destroy using the cutting-edge dropship technology to reinforce peace in worldwide hot spots. Load your dropship with deadly combat vehicles and fly, drive, and shoot your way through a massive enemy-infested photorealistic terrain. Your decisions affect the outcome as your wingmen and ground forces rely on your guidance and support. Reveal a tale of military might and political intrigue as you and your copilot take out tactical targets and cripple enemy strongholds.

3-D photorealistic environments include the mountains of Colombia and the coastline of China. Each map has a playable area of 40 by 40 km and a draw distance to the horizon. The variety of high-technology air and ground combat craft in the game includes escort fighters, recon planes, battle tanks, armored assault vehicles, and, of course, the dropship.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good concept, so-so execution, July 25, 2002

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Vano Chu "grills year-round" (NJ) - See all my reviews
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I've played most of BAM!'s PS2 line now: Dropship, Way of the Samurai, and Wipeout Fusion. In every case, the game concept has been interesting/cool, but the actual gameplay and implementation of the ideas just don't deliver a consistenly fun experience.

Dropship's concept is intriguing: pilot a large troop/armor transport around a battlefield to pick up and deliver combat units and occasionally hop into the driver's seat or turret of one of the ground vehicles to carry out a mission. Visions of the dropship/APC units from Aliens were dancing in my head when I picked up this game. Piloting the analogous vehicles in the game did not deliver the experience I expected from the movie. But, to be fair, this game is not supposed to be based on the the movie, so I won't count that against the score. Here's how I got to 3 stars:

+5 Stars for originality: There's no other game that delivers the whole battlefield experience in first-person viewpoint like this one. It's cool to switch from flying to driving to gunnery as part of a mission thread. There are some nice touches like spotting for high-altitude bombardment and dam-busting missions that show the designers put some thought into what battles should be like in the future.

-1.5 Stars for the [bad] handling of all the vehicles: Sure, dropships are huge, lumbering machines that should not zip around like F-16's. Sure, you shouldn't be able to sling an APC around into a bootlegger reverse the way you would in Grand Theft Auto. All this may be "accurate", but it definitely makes for frustrating gameplay. The dropships turn so awkwardly that it's tough just to keep enemy planes in your field of view... much less try to keep the targeting reticle on them for a lock-on. The APCs skid out and crash into things at the drop of a hat. It's as if someone set out to make the perfect simulation of trying to park a minivan in the mall parking lot on a crowded day: you might admire the way [bad]turn radius and screaming kids in the back are "accurately" modeled, but you probably won't want to play for very long.

-0.5 Stars for making it so damn hard to land on a drop zone. This is the central concept of the game, right? Pilot your ship over the landing zone and zip down to release or extract troops? There's a twist: your ship has to be facing in the right direction when it lands. This is indicated by an arrow on the ground inside the blue circle of the drop zone. OK. What's the problem, you say? That arrow is not displayed on your radar, so you can't figure out the orientation until you have a visual on the zone AND the camera angles that the game provides during landing completely obscure your vision of the drop zone 90%of the time. Add to this the tendency of your dropship to skitter uncontrollably during fine maneuvers and you end up cursing a blue streak wrestling your ship to the ground while the drop timer counts down and enemy SAM placements pound you into dust.

So, if you really like the concept and can endure the awkward vehicle handling and cliched, stereotyped voice-acting, then this is a worthy addition to your PS2 library. I stopped having fun about 30% of the way through the missions and went back to playing Ace Combat 4 and GTA3 for my vehicular combat fixes.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This game rocks!, June 14, 2002

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Tullaryx - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dropship (Video Game)

I first played this game when I was vacationing in Europe and saw a demo in an electronics store in London. This game was just too cool. Nice graphics and nonstop exciting gameplay. I'm glad its finally arrived here in the U.S. No need to buy the import version. This one is a true port from the Euro version.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Level of Depth, August 15, 2002

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T. Tolentino (Sacramento, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dropship (Video Game)

With most console-based flight games, control schemes are often simplified for the sake of ease. This is not the cade in Dropship, yet it does not damage the gameplay. It feels, in fact, like the controller was built to control the dropship. It's refreshing not to have the simple arcade control. There's nothing like putting the dropship into hover and firing as you descend to the LZ to drop a tank onto the battlefield.