Conflict: Denied Ops Reviews

How they massacred my boy

This is a shitty console port. Do not purchase. Complete waste of money even at 85% sale.

I got this on the $0.89 sale, and I couldn't be bothered to finish the first level. There are games much older than this, that are still fun to play. The problem with this game, is it hits the bucket list of the shooters of the time, but does none of them well. The only thing that it does okay, is its destructible environments. Pretty good for the time, boxes and wooden walls rip apart satisfyingly under fire, and there's usually enough explosive barrels/objects around for that classic instant kill. There is a scene early on, where you take down a Hind, and it does the typical helicopter death spiral, and comes crashing down towards you. I sat there watching it, expecting it to fly off-screen, realizing too late, it was coming down on my head, bringing beams and parts of the building with it. Nothing else works. The gunfire sound is hilariously bad, literally made me guffaw out loud when I fired my first shots. You also can only carry two guns, with no option of picking up another weapon to try something new [At least not for the majority of the first mission]. The AI is nothing special at best, and do nothing but take cover, shoot at you, or stare at you. Several times I came around a corner and ran into the AI, and they stop and stare at you for way too long, as if not sure what to do about you. [I love how these soldiers in an actual military combat situation yell at you to "Stop right there!", or "Hold it!", as if they are police officers] Your AI companion is easy to order around with just a button press to go to spot/do a scripted thing at a spot, or button hold to stay with you. It does their job fine, considering there isn't much they need to do against the unsure enemy but return fire, try and stay in cover, and be a backup character to switch to in case you go down. This is good fodder if you're a Youtuber needing a bad game to play for content. As someone who does not get paid to play crap games and riff, I genuinely had more fun writing this review, than I did with my time playing it.

this game is beyond awful! It's controls are something out of the 80's and you can't change key assignments to what most games use I really tried to like this game it had promise but not the way the controls are

One of the absolute worst FPS games I have ever played; and this is coming from someone who's played through City Interactive's entire back catalogue.