Joint Operations : Typhoon Rising (PC/FullIso/Eng)
Game Platforme(s) : PC | Language : English | Release Date : Jun 15, 2004
Publisher : NovaLogic | Developer : NovaLogic | Genre : Modern Tactical Shooter | Size : 745 Mb
Game Platforme(s) : PC | Language : English | Release Date : Jun 15, 2004
Publisher : NovaLogic | Developer : NovaLogic | Genre : Modern Tactical Shooter | Size : 745 Mb
Joint Operations is set in Indonesia, the sprawling archipelago nation that is one of world's largest democracies, but one that's flush with volatile religious and ethnic tensions. After a bloody insurgency erupts, the United States and other Western nations dispatch their special forces to the island. You can play as either a Joint Operations trooper or as a member of the insurgency in a number of multiplayer gameplay modes, including co-op, team deathmatch, team king of the hill, and "advance and secure," which resembles Battlefield's conquest mode where your team has to seize a number of control points on the map in order to win. Unlike Battlefield, there is no single-player option to play the team-versus-team maps with computer-controlled teammates, though the game does allow you to play the co-op missions solo against artificial intelligence bots. We wouldn't recommend trying it solo, though, as the bots possess uncanny marksmanship. Generally, the bots in co-op games are pretty passive--they wait for you to come into detection range before firing on you, so they're a letdown compared with actual human opponents.
As in most team-based shooters, in Joint Ops, you choose a character class to play, each with its own distinct weapons and equipment. The rifleman gets the rocket launcher, which is useful against vehicles, and he can also choose between a variety of assault rifles and grenades. The gunner has access to the heavy machine guns that can lay down suppressive fire. The engineer gets some basic rifle choices, but he can choose between the Stinger antiaircraft missile and the mortar, which can rain down a devastating barrage. The sniper gets the sniper rifles and the target designator; if a sniper designates a target for a mortar-equipped engineer, the mortar fire becomes devastatingly accurate. And then there's the medic class, which can heal teammates and also revive fallen allies on the battlefield. All the classes are designed to complement each other, and a well-balanced team is preferable to a team made up primarily of snipers, for instance.
You can also choose to forgo some of the secondary weapons and tweak your ammunition load in order to lighten your encumbrance. Joint Operations takes into account the amount of weight in weapons and ammunition that you carry, so a lightly encumbered player can run faster than a heavily encumbered one. It's an interesting trade-off, because there are moments in the game when it's useful to be able to run faster than everyone else--to make a sprint for the helicopter, for example--but there are other moments when you'd give your left arm for a Stinger to shoot down a helicopter dogging you, or to have a rocket-propelled grenade knock out the Stryker personnel carrier being used as a floating gun platform near your base.
Once you start playing, the thing that strikes you about Joint Operations is that this is a huge game. There are approximately 30 maps, some measuring the equivalent of 50-square kilometers in size. Even with 150 players in a map, it's still possible to feel alone at times. Thankfully, the game's objective system ensures that the action is concentrated at several strategic points, so it's not just a bunch of players running around haphazardly. When everything is going on in Joint Operations, it's an amazing experience. You'll stand there as helicopters circle around and the buzz of the chain gun can be heard over the thrum of the rotors while a hail of bullets rain down. Meanwhile, mortar rounds scream overhead and bullet tracers fly by your head. Then an armored personnel carrier will roll up and a squad will dismount and scatter into the nearby tall grasses. It would be almost perfect if not for the fact that you die far too easily in this game, which can cause some frustration.
Minimum System Requirements
* Os : Windows98(SE)/ME/2000/WindowsXP
* Processor : CPU Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz or higher
* Graphic Card : 64 MB Direct 3D (nVidia GeForce TNT2 Series or ATI Radeon Series)
* Memory : 256 MB Of RAM
* HDD : 2 GB free Space Drive
* DirectX@ : DirectX 8.1+
* Keyboard/Mouse
* DVD-Rom Drive
Recommanded System Requirements
* Os : Windows98(SE)/ME/2000/WindowsXP
* Processor : CPU Intel Pentium IV 1.7 GHz or AMD Athlon
* Graphic Card : 128 MB Direct 3D (nVidia GeForce TNT2 Series or ATI Radeon 9700 Pro)
* Memory : 512 MB Of RAM
* HDD : 2 GB free Space Drive
* DirectX@ : DirectX 8.1+
* Keyboard/Mouse
* DVD-Rom Drive
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