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Real Action

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a GREAT Game. It can be difficult but it wouldn't be fun if it was too easy. The graphics are GREAT, if you have a good computer. You have to employ tactics, manage your men, operate your equipment and weapons, take your time on your missions. If you advance too fast the enemy will do you in. The only 2 saves per mission is frustrating, but it forces you to be careful and not get over confident and dead. Ammo is sufficient, but don't waste it. I like to lure in the enemy from a safe location and prone position then eliminate them before they can fire RPGs and grenades at me. The sniper rifle works great for this. Learn to throw grenades, they can be very useful. They blow up land mines and your guy can throw them left, right, close or far, or anywhere in between. The training in the beginning is essential. If you complete the training you will be able to play the game. Do not reload your weapon when prompted to. You will just waste ammo. Only in a critical situation where you know you need to start out with a full clip should you disgard a partial clip. Have fun, but it isn't easy. I'm sure you can complete your missions.

Amazing stragey and control

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game really makes you feel like your ahead of a special forces team. Great training program to get you started with the (at first) difficult commands. Once you get the hang of it's amazing fun. The game does not last very long but you get into some fun challenges. And those specially located tanks are always annoying but very reliveing once you blow them up.
The thing I liked most about this game is your ability to heal a member when their down. You don't have all the time in the world to do so but it makes the level progression go back and forth.
Co-Op features are the real heart of this, getting four people to move about in these levels all working together is just great.
Replay value is not the highest but is always worth it, I highly recommend this game.

Great game for the money!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There is only one major flaw in this great game. Only two in game saves. With all the action in this game, it makes it impossible to get through it in two saves. Stay on the easy level and you will enjoy it.

Very well done military sim/shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Conflict: Desert Storm is very well done as a military simulation for practicing basic infantry combat tactics, while still keeping the game really fun on a shooter-type level. There are not very many games out there with that winning combination of realism, excitement, enjoyment, and playability. This is one of the few that successfully combines all of these elements.

Not My Taste

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The graphics were o.k. Unfortunately the game is extremely hard. Although hard the game is fun. I just wouldn't waste my money on it. I don't think it's worth it.

Wouldn't recommend.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The graphics really hurt this game. You can barely see the enemy unless they are two feet in front of you. Your character is also very slow to move, aim, and fire. I would go with Ghost Recon

played it for a while then so what?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

CDS is not awful, just full of holes in what could have been a great game. Here's why. You have 4 men on your team, and you can play any of them. The control and aiming system is not intuitive - Deadly Dozen Pacific Theater did a better job for a lot cheaper. The real killer for me was 2 things. First, the enemy AI is just awful. The tanks have unerring aim and will blow you away immediately when they see you. But the footsoldier AI is terrible. They simply rush at you with no sense of tactics. Many times, I have seen up to ten of them rush around a corner to be blown away. Now, if you were a soldier, would you run around a corner if there were a mountain of your dead buddies in front of you? Probably not! Like so many other games, the computer simply throws hundreds of baddies at you in an attempt to hide the awful AI. Even so, I played it for a while until I got to a mission where I had to drive a special jeep. The controls were very frustating. When you saw an enemy, you had to stop driving, switch to the player holding the rocket launcher, fire, then switch back to the driver. Most such games have a control where you can aim the gun and drive the vehicle simultaneously. But not CDS. After being blown away 20x, I simply stopped playing and put it back on the shelf. The graphics are quite sharp however. If you want a fun squad based-shooter, spend the extra money and buy Ghost Recon, Raven Shield or even Call of Duty. You can do some fun things in this game. In one mission, you have to destroy a mobile scud launcher with a tank nearby. I was able to trick the tank into blowing up the scud. Then I crept up on the tank and destroyed it. That was fun. To me however the real test of game is not did I enjoy a few select levels - heck even part of MORTYR were fun - but will I keep coming back to it. This game fails that test.

Desert Storm

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good game. graphics are pretty good but my system has a very weak graphics card so its a little choppy at times. The sound isn't anything great, The guns are way off of the what there supposed to sound like. You get many different guns. a couple machine guns, sniper rifles, and assult rifles throught the game. You control any 1 of 4 characters. The'll actually cover you if your trying to help a downed soldier.

Not much bad. The sound on the guns aren't very good, especailly on the machine guns.That damn machine gunner, Conners, is trigger happy. if you keep him with you while your trying to infiltrate quietly your screwed. He'll just start blasting a way at things. I've had him where he takes out the rocket luancher to kill 3 enemy soldiers. i usually leave all the rest of my men behind because they make to much noise. I like to sneak. Sometimes I just take all there weapons set a c4 and blow my team up. The game either could have had more levels or longer levels. On hard it only takes about 10 hours and I kill every Iraqi I see. It's a great game with a few flaws but still very fun. Rent before you buy.

Awesome Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is incrediable! The graphics are stunning, the A.I. is challening, commanding more than 1 man is lots of fun, great weapons, can anyone say Laser Guided Missles?, and the game is soooo realistic! The hardest part is aiming. I know, you are probably saying, "What a morhon, aming is easy!" Not really, in one mission, I used my sniper rifle to take out a guy and 2 others came at me. So, I got of my scope and shot one of them in what appeared to be the head. Well, the mouse sensitivity moved so far, I actually shot the cliff ABOUT A MILE AWAY FROM THE GUY.

Pros
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1.Play as Delta Force or U.K. Special Air Service (S.A.S.)
2.Very good terrain, graphics put you right into the actual war
3.Actual missions from Desert Storm. (Game was created by an S.A.S. Commando that served in Desert Storm.)
4.Good guns
5.Long missions
6.Great characters

Cons
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1.Aiming
2.Gaining rank takes lots of time
3.Losing one of your men in the mission (hard to complete mission without all of them)
4.Slow moving cursor
5.Mouse Sensitivity!

No matter what anybody says about this game, get it! Itis sooo good. Trust me!

Difficult, but lots of fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics and sound effects are great, and its fun controlling 4 guys.

My only 2 bad points:

1) You have to waste a save at the beginning of a level

2) Can't control mouse sensitivity. In a close firefight it is very hard to aim quickly.

Overall, a fun game.

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