Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror
Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror is a first-person shooter video game developed by Kamehan Studios in 2002 and published by Infogrames as a MicroProse title. The game is a standalone retail version of a multiplayer modification of the same name released by Kamehan Studios in 1999 for the game Unreal Tournament. The game features combat-based missions in which two teams, portrayed as Special Forces and terrorists, fight to complete mission objectives and kill their opponents. Upon its release, Tactical Ops received mixed to average reviews. Critics criticized the game's similarity to the non-commercial version and the lack of special features compared to other multiplayer first-person shooters.
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Tactical Ops offers similar gameplay to other team-based multiplayer first-person shooter games, including the original Unreal Engine parent game Unreal Tournament. Tactical Ops features single and multiplayer rounds between two teams, special forces and terrorists, with competing objectives such as guarding or freeing hostages or weapons, or detonating bombs in specific locations. The game is played in four-minute deathmatch rounds. If the player is killed during a round, he/she must sit out the round until it ends, either when time runs out or the mission objectives are completed by a team. Players earn money when they complete special achievements, e.g. killing enemies, finding contraband in the level or completing mission objectives. Between missions, the money can be used to buy new weapons, armor, grenades and tools such as night vision goggles. In the single player mode of Tactical Ops, the player can compete against computer-controlled bots on 30 maps.