Conflict: Desert Storm (Xbox)

5 star game

IN, MY HUMBLE OPINION THIS IS THE BEST WAR GAME EVER MADE AND WELL AHEAD OF IT'S TIME AND INSPIRED ALL THE NEW CALL OF DUTY SERIES :) IT MAY NOT BE AS GOOD AS THE NEWER VERSIONS OUT TODAY IN GRAPHICS TERMS, BUT THIS IS ONE HELL OF A ACTION GAME AND BRILLIANT STORY AND KEEPS YOU ENTERTAINED ALL NIGHT LONG AND WELL DESERVED FIVE STARS :) A+++++++++++++@

This is the sort of game, whilst not being the graphical extravaganza you'd expect of the xbox, will keep dragging you back for more.Basic premise is that you control a four-man squad of elite grunts (SAS or Delta) on various sandy missions. The controls are fairly intuitive and switching between each member of your squad is a quick process. This allows you to react quickly to any taxing situations.Another good point is the way that you can add to each member of your squad's skill levels with certain weapons and equipment. Use the AK47 plenty and you'll find your skill and accuracy improve on the next mission. This allows you have weapons specialists within your squad. The difficulty factor is good and even on easy setting you can still get fragged pretty easily if you don't move quickly enough. On the Hard setting the game becomes a very different beast as you attempt to creep about without attracting enemy fire. Enemy AI is also deceptively good. It's not revolutionary but they do get attracted by the sound of gunfire and can give some nasty surprises if you're not looking.The level designs are nice and big and the ambient sound FX are cool in 5.1 dolby. The pop-up can be a little annoying but on the whole it's the kind of easy style play that will keep you coming back. A lot of the next gen games these days attempt to be complex just for the sake of it but this keeps to the point; get in, blow up things and shoot stuff and get out.The subject matter might be a little un PC at the moment but what the heck, I can remember playing Raid on Moscow when I was younger and it didn't turn me into an Capitalist nutter! It may get overshadowed by the raft of Sept-Oct releases but this may just find a place in your regular players just because of the gameplay.

all good great game

As an xbox virgin great shoot em up to start with although the graphics were really old school as I remember them from PC games. only persons of a certain age would enjoy this old game.

good game i ever had

Conflict Desert Storms is one of those games where you might say rent it or play it at a friends house and then you'll just have to get it. The game is sheer brilliance.Let me back it up a bit. Conflict Desert Storm is a third person shooter set in the Gulf (or at least i think its the gulf, my histories not to good). The difference between this and other third person shooters is that you control a team of people. That doesn't mean you just give orders to a few people helping you along the way, you can actually switch contol to each seperate character and control them the way you like. This means you could say walk your sniper up to the roof of a building and get him to cover you, set up your machine gunner to make sure no-one sneaks up behind you and run in with your team leader, your explosions expert following closely so you can plant the C4. The commands you can give your teamates are quite simple but they get the job done. You can command people to follow you, stand their ground, fire at will / hold fire and order them to go to a specific place.In terms of being an actual 3rd person shooter this is not at too good a quality and the first level when you have no teamates is not very fun, but when you have a full array of teamatesyou don't care about that. There aren't many weapons and the shooting style isn't too fun. In fact if there wasn't teamates at all this game would get little over two stars in my opinion.Possibly the best part of this game however is the 2 - 4 player co-operative where your friends can control a member of your team or two and you can really become a team. You'll find yourelf yelling at your friends and not realising that its just game.The actual game itself is HUGE. i have owned this game for a month now and i still haven't bought the sequal because it just lasts so long. Each level takes about an hour to complete and thats just on the easy difficulty setting. There are a total of about 15 missions and each one is very different from the one that proceeded it.I would advise this game to ANYONE but especially those who like teamplaying games and co-op multiplayer games. God bless Conflict; Desert Storm, Desert Storm 2 and the soon to come Conflict: Vietnam