The artificial intelligence has exponentially improved for the PS2 version so much so that it makes your squadmates almost too efficient. In the PC version, your squadmates were mostly brain-dead, serving no other purpose than to squeeze off a few rounds and look baffled when you took a rocket to the head and slowly crumpled to the ground. Most substantial among these is the greater emphasis placed on your squad. Several other changes were made to the PS2 version of Team Sabre with varying degrees of success. In the PS2 version, the dialogue is reduced to annoying and poorly voiced catchphrases, so you never get a clear sense of what your purpose is-other than to frag some bad guys. In the PC version, you get a fair amount of banter and exposition between the leader and the squad that worked well to fill in the story and provide a moderately entertaining backdrop to the action. Further aggravating this disjointed feel is the dialogue, which received even more substantial cuts.

This makes some of the transitions between objectives rougher than they should be, and you'll more than occasionally be furtively searching for that one last mercenary or other objective because of the lack of direction. In the PS2 version, the village you arrive at isn't nearly as impressive because there are far fewer mercs, and their placement is less logical, as far as fortified villages go. However, in the PC version, you begin by being air-dropped in by a Black Hawk helicopter, and then you must secure the boat to take down the river to the village. For instance, in the first mission, you'll begin by traveling down a river in a boat to clean out a local cartel-infested village. You'll still be hacking your way through missions set in the jungles of Colombia and the scrub lands of Iran, though portions of these missions have been cut in the PS2 version, and other portions have been considerably downsized. The PS2 version of Team Sabre is very similar to the PC version, but it does have a few distinct differences, most of which are for the worse. There is a Black Hawk, and it does go down. What you're left with is an equally frustrating, slightly incoherent, borderline busted, impedingly ugly-looking game. And though this PlayStation 2 version does address some of the issues that hampered its PC counterpart, it introduces far more problems than it fixes and clips out a significant amount of content. Unfortunately, not everyone shares that seemingly self-evident wisdom, so Delta Force: Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre from developer Rebellion has been unleashed upon the masses. If your immediate reaction was 'No, that wouldn't be good at all.just, no,' then you would be correct.

OK, try this idea on: Take a nearly 2-year-old PC expansion pack for a nearly 3-year-old middling shooter that's very loosely based on a 5-year-old movie and port it to a more than 6-year-old system.

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