Joint Task Force

by Vivendi Universal

Product Features

• Lead twenty dramatic missions in explosive war-zones including the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Balkans
• Experience the evolution of warfare firsthand with superior tactics and military technology
• No game has been so gritty or immediate
• Elaborate story line, 5 campaigns and 1 tutorial
• Multiplayer modes will handle 8 players over LAN and internet

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GUV120
• Item Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 12, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,939 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #9 in Video Games > PC Games > Action > Military & Espionage
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Joint Task Force is the real-time strategy (RTS) game where you command the frontline forces in tomorrow’s most hazardous conflicts. Lead twenty dramatic missions in explosive war-zones including the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Balkans. Experience the evolution of warfare firsthand as you bring superior tactics and military technology to bear against dangerous and unconventional forces. No game has been so gritty or immediate. Use the principle of combined arms to your maximum advantage. All battlefield units — including infantry, tanks, artillery, reconnaissance and helicopters — are strongest when used together. Your men’s lives depend on your level-headed strategy.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice Concept but Issues with Implementation, January 27, 2007

By 

Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Joint Task Force (CD-ROM)

Joint Task Force lets you control tanks, infantry, harriers in more in a variety of battlefield situations.

The graphics are reasonably good here. Trees get knocked over when you roll over them in your tank, snow falls down onto the dusted battlefield, flags flutter in the breeze. Clicking on a unit shows you circles around them indicating the range of the various weapons the unit holds. It makes strategizing your next move relatively easy.

You can zoom in and out with great ease, and either do map control on your own or set the camera to follow a group. You have a few formations your units can move in, and infantry can 'go prone' if there's no cover around. There are numerous vehicles lying around - military and civilian - that you can hop into and drive.

You can skirmish in random setups with factions, maps and units that you want to practice with, and you can do full campaigns where you take on pre-set objectives. There's also online gameplay if you want to take on other humans.

There are "heroes" in this game which inspire your troops and order in new weapons and items. Each also has special skills - for example a weapons hero might let you repair vehicles more readily. Reinforcements get dropped off via helicopter and you actually get to choose up to X units that "fit" in that helicopter.

On our system the units move quickly and smoothly - the problem lies with the lack of strategy needed - but the high level of micromanagement necessary. Normally you can just plow ahead at the enemy forces, but every unit needs continual reminders of what they are supposed to be doing. There isn't a lot of cover or other types of advantages on many maps, meaning it ends up being a mass-up-and-go assault.

You can capture flags (i.e. territory) which get you more cash, and airstrips to be able to drop heavier vehicles.

I do have to comment that the little infantry look rather silly when they get shot - they go flying what seems to be miles. They have some scale issues here.

The sound is reasonable enough - an epic sounding instrumental, voices that answer your commands. I'm not sure what more you'd really want from this type of strategy game. On cut scenes, voices often don't sync up with the people, though. During campaign play you sometimes get little 'news videos' of what is going on in your world.

You're not building up bases here, so your options are usually not defensive - instead, you're building your mobile attack force to wipe out your enemy. Units get experience as they go, but damage is 'realistic' so unless you're skilled you often get your units slaughtered before they have that opportunity.

I compare this most with the original Command & Conquer, without the base aspect. You could consider this therefore worse - or you could say it's a better version because of the improved graphics. Part of the problem is that even starting the first campaign on normal difficulty (choosing from normal or hard) you tend to get slaughtered quickly unless you've been playing these things for a while. Even experienced gamers will find even the starting missions challenging.

So a nice concept but with some reality issues and also a poor scaling of difficulty if they want this playable by the average gamer.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a must have for RTS game fan, September 28, 2006

By 

rodney® "r0dn3y" (CHICAGO, IL. USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Joint Task Force (CD-ROM)

This is a must have game for RTS fans it has an amazing graphics and compared to other RTS game that you could finish by collecting as much resources and getting gazillion troops and doing a kamikazi attack, on this game those tactics won't cut it. you actually need to think here in where to position your men and vehicles and the JTF community is topnotch no snobs and screaming noob on your face they're helpfull and that goes to the developers aswell (they actually read the forum).

The only reason i gave the game 4 stars is there's a few thing that needs to be ironed out in the game and a few addition options needed but i suppose not every game is perfect.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A bit slow, very crazy, uber fun, March 19, 2007

By 

JazzCat ">CDM<" (US of smeggin' A) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Joint Task Force (CD-ROM)

This game was quite a good buy. Aside from stunning graphics, the gameplay is excellent, much more tactically oriented than many other games. And act5ion comes quite thick (escpecially in skirmish mode, where it may actually come a little TOO thick)

I reccoment it for any RTS fan, but if you aren't an RTS fan, maybe you should pass it up.