Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror

Game Play. Now if you play Counter Strike, most of this will be familiar to you. But for those who aren't I'm happy to explain. You start off in round one, gathered with your teammates in the designated terrorist or Tactical ops team zone. You choose which team to play as, along with what skin, and then you are presented a weapons and gadgets buying menu. You use the designated starting money set by you or the server you play on to buy things like pistols, shotguns, rifles, the works. Imagine spending that first one, loaded with all the body armor and the biggest machinegun, pelting all the opposing forces left and right to death while mocking them. It's great!

Ok, so now that we're out in the battlefield, now what? Well each map has an objective you must complete, like one in the Middle East where you must proceed to your pumping well and draw water from the pumping station before the enemy does. Well, you can just go blow the enemy away if you want. The objectives are just there to spice up variety. Of course, there are also the classic hostage rescue and demolition maps too. I think we all know how THEY work. So there you are with your buddies. So what happens when you cross paths is this. You exchange gunfire with them and hope to win, simply because if you die, you're out for the rest of the round. If you don't like multiplayer games that do that, this game won't work for you either. Fortunately you won't need to worry so much about that compared to Counter Strike, because in Tactical Ops, if you get shot at, you can still move out of the way and flee if you need to. (As opposed to CS where getting shot gets you stuck and well… killed.)

You know what else I like about Tac-Ops? That buying menu. The interface is just so much easier to deal with. You have the pistols to the left, shotguns and sub-machine guns in the middle, rifles on the right, and body armor and grenades on the far right, with weapons to pick from sitting underneath the categories. Plus, they made it mouse friendly, so all you have to do is click the weapon for each category and it's yours. And if you already have a gun in that department? It swaps! And hey, if you don't want that pistol so you can save your money, or you no longer want a sub-machinegun, just click it and you get your money back. Then you just click the ammo option underneath the categories to stock up your ammo. It's that easy. See? A nice simple and thoughtful interface. Why couldn't CS be like that!