Single player stink...only good thing is that it can have 50 players in one game
User Rating: 6.3 | Delta Force: Black Hawk Down XBOX
I rented this recently and I have to say I'm not to please about it. It was cracked up to be one the killer Xbox Live titles of this year with support of 50 players in a single game. I really was hoping that it was going to be very good online play. I really didn't care for the single player and I was right. It was boring, I quite after the 2nd level. I knew I would play online alot and I did. I didn't expect the lag. For the most part there is usually very good game play when it hover around 35-40 people it almost never had lag. Sadly when the games got past 41 people on it the game plummeted and lag overtook the whole game. Within literally 10 seconds of player number 41 joining the game lagged and 10-15 people left. Then it was over. Soon the game would only have 30, then 25, then 20, and it still would lag. it is bad. Just trying to get in games with 40+ people is almost impossible. I would be forced to join games were there are less then 16 people and wait, and hope, more would join. Most of these maps are made for 35+ people and with such few people, sometimes "few" as in 20 people, you wouldn't to be able to find anyone on the opposite team. It was horrible. Graphics are sub-par at best. I should say though with lots of action happening at once I actually do understand why is wasn't so good, so it's not "that" bad. Guns are nice and the sound fits were it's suppose to be. My final thoughts is that it's not really bad, they should have waited for the 360 to come out. The could of fix some of the lag and made the graphics better. I like to make a guess that if this was just pulled back intill say, Jan 2006, and was using the Xbox 360 dev kit my score would have risen 2 points for a score of 8.3. Alias, it is not like that. So sorry Black Hawk Down, you should have waited for the 360, you might have been made into a killer app Xbox 360 Live title.