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Dom Robinson reviewsCounter Terrorist: Special Forces For
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Nintendo
- Price: £34.99
- Players: 1-2
In Counter Terrorist: Special Forcesit’s time for terrorism’s butt to be kicked as you’re the leader of an elitecommando unit sorting out the arcade world’s equivalent of Osama bin Laden andSaddam Hussein. Well, not quite, but you do get to shoot a lot of bad guyswith bullets, rockets, flamethrowers and grenades starting with a platformarcade section rather similar to Green Beret, the ZX Spectrum army-basedshoot-em-up from the mid-80s.
Further action includes a helicopter mode as you bomb areas of baddies,plus a chance to make a parachute jump and shoot with a sniper rifle.
The game also scrolls along from side to side, as you climb mountains anddrop to lower pieces of scenery, collecting weapons and power-ups as you go,in similar vein to the original Ghosts N Goblins arcade outing, witha similarly crisp and colourful look to the proceedings.
Sound is average with an undemanding tune in the background and spot-FX as youshoot and kill, but it plays very well and is quite enjoyable for a time.
It’s also possible to link your GBA to another and play as two counter-terroristscompeting against each other.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.