Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

Reviewed by:
Sean Cunningham

You know how it goes: first comes the military disaster, then comes the Jerry Bruckheimer film, and then we get the video game. At least that’s been the genealogy of Black Hawk Down, now offering gamers 16 single-player missions patterned after the firefights faced by US troops in Somalia in 1993 (except for the fact, of course, that they were risking their lives and you’re sprawled out on a beanbag). Drink in your fill of military realism in crowded, confusing war zones where you can drown in rivers, kill civilians, and partake in friendly fire—just like we did—before heading to boot camp to apologize. If that's not enough carnage, you can also engage in 32-player (50 on Xbox Live) online deathmatch missions, which is technically twice the bloody chaos of Halo 2. See, foreign policy can be fun!

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