The team members do have actual names and unique appearances, so you've got at least a little more attachment to them than if they were just faceless drones. There's the assault rifle-wielding team leader, the sniper, the demolitions expert, and the heavy machine gunner. Each of your team members is equipped with a weapon that gives him a unique function. Your selection here slightly affects stats, appearance, and voice acting. You command a squad of four specialists in each mission, and, at the beginning of a new game, you can choose either American Delta Force or British SAS personnel. You get a linear progression of 10 missions, each of which has its own setting and unique mission objectives and some of which are revealed in-game as you progress. There's not a whole lot of story to speak of in the game. Though there's been a more recent conflict in Iraq, and military action in the region is, in fact, ongoing, Conflict: Desert Storm II again places you in the thick of the 1991 campaign against Saddam Hussein's regime. At least the PC version is easier to play, thanks to the wider array of control options offered by the keyboard and mouse.Ĭonflict: Desert Storm II again places you in the thick of the 1991 campaign against Saddam Hussein's regime.

The PC version doesn't add anything significant to the mix, and, in fact, it's missing the console versions' cooperative play mode (and any multiplayer options). However, the new Conflict is quite an improvement over the extremely shaky first game. The hasty release of a follow-up was no doubt spurred by the political and military events of the last year. Scarcely a year later, we've received a direct sequel titled Conflict: Desert Storm II - Back to Baghdad. Its current-events context notwithstanding, the first Conflict game just wasn't very good. As you'd gather from the name, the game was set in the Middle East during the early 1990s' Operation: Desert Storm-the famed military action against Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. 2002's Conflict: Desert Storm gave players squad-based tactical action with a tie-in to modern military history.

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