Fans of Conflict will remember the series for its real-world war zones, accurate weapons and deep squad tactics. Be prepared for a shock. Conflict: Denied Ops ditches all of the features we came to love in favour of a fast-paced, almost arcade-like co-op blast. The four-man squad is cut down to a duo, the real war zones are now an imaginary struggle against rogue terrorist gangs and there’s no additional weapons. Our hero Lang packs a ...
January 22, 2008
Right - before we go any further, there's something you should see. It's a video of Conflict: Denied Ops in action with some details from one of the game's designers, Terry Watts. Take a look and see what you think.
All done? It all sounds great in theory, doesn't it? Co-op play, guns, environment destruction, vehicles, explosions, team orders... so why has Conflict: Denied Ops left us so underwhelmed? It's the gameplay. That same gameplay we've seen a hundred times ...
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Dec 19, 2007
How does this co-op game work if you don't have a friend to play with? Well, we don't have any friends, and we got to try out the game. You switch between characters on the fly by hitting a button at anytime. The camera does a little overhead zoom thing and flies out of one guy's head and into the other one. Whoever's brain you're not inhabiting is controlled by AI. The game did a good job of backing us up, although we only played a bit past the first ...
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Sep 26, 2007
For the fifth game in a series, and the first on the next generation of machines, you would think that simply 'more' would be the order of the day for Conflict: Denied Ops. It's refreshing then, to see that developer Pivotal Games has condensed the gameplay by making your 'squad' a simple partnership between two different soldiers instead of four or more. And it's ramped up the blood levels too.
The game has some of the finest blood effects we've ever seen. Splatter an enemy ...
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Introducing the new single-player co-op. Who needs friends?
Sep 19, 2007
Sept 19, 2007
When the US government needs something shady done, they call you, an elite member of the CIA's Special Activities Division. Conflict: Denied Ops seems fairly familiar on the surface with its typical covert ops protagonists and a South American country in political turmoil. But developer, Pivotol Games has an interesting ace up their sleeve: single-player co-op.
During Conflict's single-player campaign, you'll be able to switch off between Langs, a heavy weapons gunner, and ...
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ESRB Rating
Conflict: Denied Ops is rated: Mature
Blood, Drug Reference, Strong Language, Violence