You can't test your mental or physical "toughness" in this abysmal shooter

Those relative to the Delta Force series on formerly PC may have heard of Nova Logic's latest Playstation exclusive outing, Urban Warfare. This new single-player operative adventure takes you across various missions arming you as the operative with the military's finest arsenal, and knowledge and past of tactical force. Before making the game sound interesting, you play as John Carter (an already overused beat-to-death protagonist's name), a command operator, who is suffering the recent loss and guilt of his military team who he send into an armed building in Colombia. Now enraged, John is to track down the terrorists who threaten the national security of the entire country. While having a typical passive plot, Urban Warfare's execution is a blundering failure, and whilst being a budget title, that ultimately gives me the justification to title it Playstation's most awful game ever released regardless.


VISUAL PRESENTATION: F

Developer Rebellion must of been embarrased to have shoveled out such an abomidable presentation here. Urban Warfare is filled with problems that virtually make the game unplayable nor desirable. On the front end, we have an ugly array of visuals with dated graphical technology showing it's worst in shoddy character models, heavily dithered and pixelated environments, and to top it off a horrendous framerate. To be frank, the framerates must chug at not even 10 frames-per-second especially when facing any environment or backdrop. Simply moving to look at a structure of animation takes the frames down to the minimal limit. If that not even being worse enough, the animation chops around to a filthy single digit once more than one animate object enters the already existing drugery. Even the weapon models look painfully primitive and horrendously low-resolution It's not easy to even find a pro in this category since everything here makes the game undesirable to play or to stomach.


AUDIO PRESENTATION: C

Whether it was intended or not, Nova Logic actually took a little pride in making Urban Warfare sound important by including some officially licensed music in. Now wait a minute, you're not going to here anything of interest, just another horrid dead-end garage band with no future. Who ever Third Strike is ought to realize how much lack of talent they have and how much their audio only beats this already horrid title down even lower. The only saving grace in this area that tries to make Urban Warfare more authentic is the impressive voice-acting. The scripting almost sounds like the guys at Nova Logic acutally had hope for the outcome of Urban Warfare. Heck, not even the weapon sounds are enough to pay the bill, most are horribly muffled (and the silenced pistol takes the same sample from Mission: Impossible on N64 and PSX), or just blend in with the dead overall game. Sounds are repetitive, and uninspiring that hardly use any hint of audio prowess.


CONTROL: D

Unfortunately for the horrible framerates, what could of been playable controls are all completely ruined by a shoddy outcome. The controls are adopted from the basic Playstation 2 control scheme first erected with the release of Timesplitters where the analog sticks are required for movement. The controls are rather versatile however, where you are enabled to use infrared or even night vision to aid you in completion of your missions and also peak around corners like most modern first-person shooters. The player is selected to use a standard military gathering of destructive tools to help complete the missions including the ever-so-popular M4 Assault Rifle with various different modifications like grenade launchers and shotguns as a duel-function. Familiar weapons like the MP5 and Uzi submachine guns are also to be found, as well as silenced versions of some. Since the game controls very much so like a PC shooter, It's still a mystery why Urban Warfare didn't appear on his homeland format, the PC, like the other Delta Force titles of the past.


LONGEVITY FACTOR: F

From the moment you pick up and see how awful Urban Warfare really is, you'll most likely have no desire to even complete one mission. From personal experience, I can say Delta Force: Urban Warfare was an abysmal experience the first time playing. Even as I tried to enjoy it the second time around, I played for less than five minutes and came up with the same shallow verdict. That is simply, that this game is probably the worst shooter I've ever played, especially to hit the Playstation. For those who don't know my spiel, anything that ends up on that system these days is pure and utter trash especially for the budget prices they sell for these days. I simply don't know why I even gave this sub-structured dated release a fighting chance especially since I firmly believe the Playstation should become defunct now. For all those potential buyers, even fans of an already retired and vastly improved upon PC shooting franchise, I cannot recommend the mere sampling of this godawful game. Go put some money on something greater and on another system and leave Urban Warfare to rot in the gaming graveyard before it hits your console. As the back of the case says: Test your mental and physical "toughness"... well you can do so, but in another game and when you stop playing the ones that use horrible wording like "toughness"... ugh...

Those scores I casually gave an "F" to are not because I am mad at the game, it's out of what it really is. I usually never give "F" ratings, but, my friends, the game is that bad. Just a final cautionary measure: Urban Warfare is the worst game I think I've ever played on the Playstation in the last seven years playing it.