But what about online? Not because there are loads of them but because the dozen or so that do have people playing usually have spaces free. Global Ops is far from perfect, and subsequently ends up being much the same as the single-player game. My main criticism of the bots apart from their stupidity was they just charged forward with no regard for stealth or tactics.
It seems they were quite realistic. Apart from the odd medic giving me health now and then, there was no attempt to work a strategy or have a balanced set of specialists. You die, you respawn after a while, then run back into the fray. Still, the use of tear gas and thermal vision does make it a bit different, even if the extensive backgrounds to each mission make no difference to the actual shooting.
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But hackers are hardly going to bother with a game only a handful of people play. With few servers and often brainless teammates, GO falls well short in the team-based online shooter stakes, and because of this deserves an even lower score than its single-player mode. As I write this there are more than 63, people playing Half-Life across the Internet, 52, of which are playing Counter-Strike. It is of course the most popular mod, and consequently Half-Life is the most fashionable online action game in the world.
Compare this to the second most popular, Unreal Tournament , with nearly 6, players currently fighting across deep space. Come back Stan Boardman, all is forgiven - Ed. Medal of Honor has a good chance, although you get the feeling it fighting it out for second place with Wolfenstein. However, none of these are trying to out-Counter-Strike Counter-Strike, and while we have high hopes that the likes of Team Factor, Mobile Forces and Conflict Desert Storm will all build upon the success that Counter-Strike has single-handedly created, spearheading the assault is Global Ops, from turncoat developer Barking Dog.
Despite the counter-terrorist versus terrorist battles, CS has always felt more like a training exercise, even more so the further you become acquainted with the handful of maps the majority of players seem to stick to. The missions take place not just across dust and tundra,jungle and in villages, but in recognisable hot spots, from Mexico and Quebec - as seen in the recent beta version - to Chechnya, Africa, the Antarctic and Sri Lanka.
Like it or not, Northern Ireland will j be back in some form, good guys versus bad, Britain versus the IRA, white hats versus black - no matter the shades of grey that colour reality. Aside from the various maps, there are many more differences between Global Ops and Counter-Strike.
Borrowed from pre-CS top dog Team Ubrtress, instead of simply choosing weapon, players will be able to select their character from a number lof pre-set classes. It was probably this experience that made them a prime candidate to whip out their own clone of everyone's favorite online tactical shooter. But while Global Operations offers some passable CS-style gameplay, it brings along a jungle-full of pesky problems.
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You can also purchase add-ons for the weapons you've already bought - from flashlights to clip-on night vision - but you'd better be quick in choosing, since you get the option to respawn every 30 seconds, and if you miss it, you have to wait until next time.
Your time in the 'sin-bin' can also be used to spectate the action, either from the viewpoint of your team mates, or from cameras spread around. Should a member of the opposition team grab control of any camera by using its control panel in the area, however, you'll lose your access to that view, and be unable upon respawn to tell your comrades exactly where that sniper was hiding. With the respawn available, the action is on the whole a fair bit more frantic than your average team-based online game - more on a par with vanilla Quake III, with people simply caring less about loss of life.
There's no long wait while a camping toe-rag hides behind a crate until the end of the turn for the extra survival cash, instead you're pretty much straight back in to the action - your only decision is whether to abandon the l33t weapon you've just managed to afford. As it is, so long as no-one's half-inched it, you can go and pick it up again, and any other weapon you might find lying around.
The frantic pace of action is thankfully not accompanied by the usual bouncing carnage you'll find in most online FPSs - while you can jump, it's a more realistic leap than the springs on your feet in, say, Quake or Unreal.
It might make the difference if you manage it once, but try and boing around like Zebedee on a bad day and you'll soon suffer. This 'realism' is also carried over into your weapon accuracy.
As you move around, your accuracy decreases, as indicated by the increasing size of your weapon sights, which narrow to a pinprick when motionless and crouching. You'll also find your weapons moving upwards as you fire bursts of gunfire, another nice touch. Fortunately, should you value precision over quantity, you can adjust weapons to fire single or minimal bursts per key-press, hopefully cutting down on your randomness in aiming.
The range of weapons available is impressive to say the least, and a good job seems to have been made of balancing their power. It's not realistic to the power of Counter Strike or, say Ghost Recon, where if you're shot, you're effectively dead. In fact, you can take quite a few bullets before it's time to give up the ghost.
Perhaps in respect of the wide price-range of weaponry, the lower-end weapons whilst still managing to be at least vaguely effective, are nothing compared to the high-calibre beasts that successful killing-sprees can net you.
The missions are also pleasantly varied, making a break from the traditional. In homage to its 'global' title they're spread around the world, from Argentina to Chechyna, with multiple goals for each team from taking out enemy commanders and rescuing artefacts, to the more standard hostage-taking.
They're remarkably well structured, the only problem being with multiple goals required for mission success, large-scale team games usually end up with a series of drawn rounds, as neither team can quite complete their goals.
The maps are well-designed, and again massively varied, some allowing clear advantages to snipers, and others to the more close-range advantaged troops. Should playing them against real people be too much for your brain to comprehend, you can also play through missions in a linear progression as part of an NPC team.
Don't expect too much from the AI though, while they support each other fairly well, responding to and issuing voice commands, healing comrades and so on, when it comes to firefights, their brains seem to eject out of the window, preferring to stand still and shoot until the enemy or themselves are dead.
They're a good way of learning the maps, though, and the different nuances of the game. There's also the presence of a couple of NPC guards in a couple of the online maps - usually in the 'good guys' home area.
Unfortunate, should you be a 'bad guy' who wanders in, as it usually results in instant death - annoying to say the least. The game is based on the Lithtech2 engine, and although not astoundingly good looking, is definitely at least on a par with the current online favourites.
In particular, the character models are great to look at, as are weapon effects - we're particular fans of what happens to you when you catch a gas grenade - at least from an aesthetic point of view. Global Operations deserves success in the online world, but as ever, it's down to the fickle online community to see if it gets the reception it deserves.
There's a lot of strategy and tactics to be picked up, should interest be provoked, and organised teams could have a field-day with the class-based action on hand. It's a toss-up, however whether the game's frantic pace actually sits comfortably with the strategic wealth waiting to be uncovered. A frag-happy punter could find a pleasant home in the fast movement and powerful weapons, possibly making it extremely difficult to manage effectively as a strategic team.
On the whole though, it's been a blast to get involved in some decent modern-day team-based online action. With versatile server options allowing operators with a dedicated machine to run a variety of servers, the potential is there for massive success over the net.
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