It doesn't help that the only 'enemy' you see tends to be out at some enormously long range, giving you nothing to look at but generic brown terrain or generic grey buildings while trying to shoot ants in the face.

The engine here is serviceable and nothing more, with sparse detail and nearly no animation to speak of. The game itself won't exactly make you get out of your seat and enlist either. Even the box can't decide where it wants to put you, featuring blurbs about 'the scorching sands of terrorist-riddled lands.' While this is probably to avoid singling out any one location or nationality and offending someone, I find it increasingly hard to be inspired by this violent trip to Terroristania. There's not even a clue who you're shooting at вЂ“ just some generic terrorists who never do anything more but run up, stand there, and shoot whatever they're carrying. It's obvious that you're an American male, but beyond that, there's no backstory whatsoever. You're an unnamed soldier with an unnamed unit in an unidentified location somewhere in the Eurasian continent.

If that sounds bland and uninspired, then you're right along with me вЂ“ there's not exactly a surplus of creativity here. Terrorist Takedown is another game set in the ever-popular Middle East, where generic 'terrorists' with guns, rockets, jeeps, and sheer numbers assault American forces.

To drag out an overused internet meme, if this is the future of budget games and rail shooters, then the terrorists have already won. I've played many a rail-shooter, and many a war game, and I've never seen one quite like this. I'm not sure what I can honestly say here.

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