Coupled with the easy set-up and weapons purchase screens this makes for a very easy-to-get-into mod, and the inclusion of a desktop startup means no poncing around selecting the mod via UT either.Ĭomparisons with Counter-Strike are inevitable as the hostage rescue and bomb-planting/defusing scenarios are so well known, but here TO goes one step further by giving map designers more leeway in terms of storylines and objectives too. The terrorists versus Special Forces storyline will be familiar to Counter-Strike fans everywhere, and the range of weapons is similar too, with old favourites like the Desert Eagle, Beretta, Mossberg, H&K MP5, AK47, Steyr and PSG-1 all putting in an appearance. Means that owners of both versions are now able to meet (and kill each other) online. This latest patch - the 3.1.5 full release - puts the free mod on a par with the retail version of Assault On Terror, and the inclusion of the texture patch After battling it out in the realism stakes with fellow UT mod Strike Force before adopting a slightly less realistic, but more action-packed stance, the graduation of Tactical Ops from freebie mod to commercial release certainly reflects its sheer quality.
