Comment by bluetomcat
9 years ago
Flashbacks to playing Delta Force in the 1990s as a kid. Looking through the binoculars at a long open distance (say 3500 metres), only to realise that the same hill repeats 3 times :-)
Delta Force 2, released in 1999, still used a voxel engine which could already be hardware-accelerated, supporting "stretched voxels" which were able to simulate high grass.
Came to say the same thing. DF and DF 2 are still some of the best multiplayer experiences I've had.
Oh, the memories! Delta Force 2 over multiplayer, with, I think, 30 players or more, on 56K was surprisingly fun! Advanced voxel engines are quite impressive.
I played both (1 and 2) almost exclusively in single player, completing every mission. SP missions in DF2 were much, much harder by comparison. Unlike the helicopters in DF1, the MIL Mi-24 Hind helicopters in DF2 were able to shoot at you and you were only able to eliminate them either with an anti-tank missile or with the grenade launcher. No matter how many magazines you emptied at a vehicle, it stayed there and didn't explode :-(
Oh I so loved delta force. We had some russian version where whole menu was cyrillic and I had no idea what it means but it was still great.