The "land warrior" tagline for Delta Force 3 is probably a reference to the US Army's Land Warrior program, which was a late-90s to mid-00s initiative to create a networked fighting force using portable computer systems, augmented reality goggles with built-in HUDs, and other commercially available gadgets and gizmos. It was a bit ahead of its time, but eventually evolved into the kit that US soldiers carry today.
You sir are totally correct! Back then the OICW was all the rage with it's grenade launcher in the media we had as the latest tech. There is a reason Soldier of Fortune 2 wanted to slap it in there in their game as well.
Indeed it was. The featured OICW gun is a dead giveaway, as that was integral to the Land Warrior project. Some units in the U.S. Army even used that release of the game as a training simulator.
I spent wayyyy too many hours in that first mission of Delta Force! Pretty sure if I loaded it up today, I would still know where all the enemies spawned! Thanks for the nostalgia. I played this at my grandpa's house in the middle of the night after they had gone to sleep. He recently passed and this brings back some good memories of him teaching me to play it.
Multiplayer wasnt mentioned for delta force. A modem connection and king of the hill made my entire afternoon. One of the first multiplayer games over the internet i ever played.
I’m so surprised there is so little coverage of this Franchise or any of the Novalogic games across RUclips. Very happy to see this.❤ There had better be voxels in the new game! And yes, I’m kidding, it’s a soulless F2P cashgrab with no self-awareness by the looks of it. 😂
The thing that truly blew my mind with Delta Force 1 way back when I first played it was that there was no "out of bounds" on the map... if you wanted to walk for 20 minutes in order to get to the top of the mountain on the other side of the enemy base for a better sniping position, well, you could!
Haha, we did the same thing. I remember the map itself repeating when we tried it. But the other player was still 20km away. Even if it was the same building the players weren't there. I think you could still hear shots though. I doubt they tested it for bored LAN kids, lol.
I remember being blown away by the huge open landscapes in Delta Force. Made the maps of all the other FPSs I’d played up to that point seem tiny by comparison!
Was thinking of this for the entire video, glad to see others shared my amazement. I remember wondering why that game alone had that distinctive "fuzzy" look to it when I was a kid. I would go to the repeated terrain sections of the map to explore the area without any threats, but they gave me an eerie ghost-town feeling too.
Man, I remember spending HOURS playing Delta Force! It always ran smoothly, had some of the best graphics of its day, and was a ton of fun! Hearing the sound effects and seeing the voxels in action in this video really took me back, thanks!
I remember playing the first Delta Force as a kid in a local gaming cafe, expecting it to be my usual shooter where I just waltzed in and mowed everything down. I remember long walks in large maps before I got my ass kicked so many times.
Delta Force was the first online FPS I played. Was over a 14.4 modem connection. I remember having to lead the lag to hit anything. Odd I got pretty good at it :P
the tech support lines for Novalogic were outsourced to the company I worked for, along with other games companies. Basically telling someone torestart their router, install a patch and update their drivers for 12 hours a day
I'd consider Delta Force to be the progenitor of not just milsims, but also large open world FPS games in general. I mean DOOM basically spawned the linear, corridor shooter. But stuff like Far Cry, ARMA, Sniper, Squad, even Battlefield owe their existence to Delta Force.
Ah Delta Force, i remember playing the demo of it from a PC magazine CD that came with tons of demos (Nocturne, Unreal Tournament, Battlezone 2, Rainbow Six Rouge Spear, and many more) I remember that my PC lacked the power to run the game properly, my PC at that time was shy of 16 MB of ram with a mere 8 MB of integrated graphics, but for the few seconds i could play of it (with frames in the single digits like a powerpoint presentation) i was amazed about this odd tech called "Voxels" back then, my young mind couldnt understand about "pixels with volume" and the fact that if i wanted i could literally break a hole into the enemy's base and keep blowing everything in my path and the terrain could deform and destroy with accuracy, it was mindblowing seeing such realistic way of handling damage to the enviroment in a video game.
I've spent so mch time ont he Novalogic games ! F-16, F-22, F/A-18, Armored Fist, Comanche 3, Delta Force... The Voxel Space 3D engine was really amazing for its era 🥰🥰
Man, my Dad loved these games when I was a kid (he's from the military); it's probably the reason why I have a soft spot particularly for Call of Duty campaign modes-some of my first ever PC game experiences were of ancient FPS games and tank sims!
Let's hope this can stay true to the originals otherwise it's just Tencent ruining more games. Some of my best early gaming memories were the Delta Force series, with 100s if not 1000s of hours in Black Hawk Down multiplayer hard to remember since I would come home and play until the wee hours of the morning like clockwork.
its hard to be optimistic when all the footage and buzzwords for the reboot make it look and sound absolutely nothing like the classic Delta Force games shown. Idk how im supposed to get excited about a Tencent BF clone with Delta Force's name slapped on top
To be frank the footage of the new game looked like another generic live service game. Too bad a real single player + Co-Op sequel might have been cool.
@@joe--cool I agree the end mission in Black Hawk Down was truly amazing! And from all the footage I've seen too it just seems like more of a generic FPS BF/COD clone so Tencent can take advantage of Delta Force name and not doubt tarnish it!
I was a BEAST on multiplayer as a sniper... I LOVED BHD. Had countless hundreds of hours in it. EVERY weekend my brother and I (half way across the country from each other) would get online and play for 4-6 hours.
As an OG Delta Force fan (played 1 and LW a metric tonne as a kid), this franchise will always hold a special place in my heart. This is also helped by me going back to them on Steam a couple of years ago and doing some speedrunning. Even managed to get a couple of world records on LW. These are fantastic games and they deserve so much more love and recognition in my biased opinion. I just hope that tencent can manage to not fuck up the new one...though I feel like I'm going to need to stock up on literal mountains of hopium/copium for that one.
These games were great and are oft forgotten. No games of the time had the ‘infinite’ landscape. Nice video I was well into these at the time, tho you skipped DF BHD which was huge and not just an add on etc. introduced vehicles etc and was massive online, tho that was perfected later by Joint Operations which was another good ‘Delta Force’ game, tho by that time Battlefield etc were taking off. Looking forward to the new game.
Had a lot of fun with the first Delta Force game back in the day. I loved Quake, but this was obviously very different. The slow pace and the threat of being killed by just a few bullets made it exciting in a completely different way. It almost feels like yesterday. Hard to believe 25 years have passed... 😄
How Delta Force came to be was that someone at Novalogic mod'd one of the flight sims into an FPS. John saw that people were staying after work to play it and decided to make it an actually game.
Spent alot of nights and early mornings in BHD servers too! As the person who organized matches with other squads, I briefly checked out alot of different servers but I mostly played in our -Ozi- squad server.
The Delta Force series is a seriously underrated gem in military FPS games. I still play DF: Xtreme and a couple of mods every week. That new Delta Force game looks horrible, like that terrible Comanche reboot that came out a few years ago with no spirit of the original games. One of my most anticipated games by NovaLogic that never released was Delta Force: Angel Falls, which should have come after DFX2.
I really remember this game so well. One of the few games that actually had bullet drop and extreme range sniping for a PC game. I still have my copies.
When Voxels where a thing ... miss those times ... the most known game build on this Voxel tech was OutCast , and its weird that in 2023 we will finally get a sequel to it ...
Look up Thunder Brigade for a sci/fi themed game with similar engine (completely written in assembly). We here in central europe totally did not have early 3d accelerators because cannot afford them - so with my pentium1 I was so happy that I could play these games like Thunder Brigade (owns still in box) and delta force (altough only had a demo). Also if you look at these - they seriously look more impressive than polygon games of the same time! It is just that 3d accelerators came from an other technical direction so it was very hard to accelerate these with them. Also look up new modern voxel engines with destructible terrain and vehicles and engine demos for that! I am a bit sad they did not make a though move and buy up some of the best of those and make delta force voxelfully great again - but I do understand the risks of course...
I remember in Delta force 2, before the patch if you had a ghillie suit and were more than 100 meters away, you were invisible... Or something to that effect... In multiplayer.
Awesome! Played and hosted some DF1 and Black Hawk Down tournaments but not enough of the guys I played with were into Landwarrior. Would have loved to do some tournaments there!
Yes, there was still a lot of fertile ground to be explored in the gaming world back then. Lots of new genres and varying gameplay mechanics, combined with rapidly advancing technology, brought us some great games. But, the early 2000s brought us some massive advances too. Big, open worlds, with ultra detailed 3D environments and complex, multi faceted gameplay. Far Cry and Stalker were great examples.
Oh wow, I had forgotten that! I didn't like the puny m203 grenade explosions' in DF1 so I was a SAW monkey. But the beefy m203 in Black Hawk Down was pure heaven and those tricky claymore were an added bonus.
You kinda forgot Joint Operations, which was just amazing for its time. We had 256 player battles in a tournament called "International Conflict". It was glorious.
2k was the year that I finally had the proper computer, internet connection, and time to play video games in multiplayer mode. The Delta Force 2 demo was my first exposure to the series. I ended up playing with a couple dozen people as we progressed from Delta Force 1 multiplayer to Task Force Dagger and then Black Hawk Down. Many of them went on to play Joint Operations but sadly my computer couldn't handle it, so I transitioned to World of Warcraft (another ground breaking video game) in the summer of 2005.
The first and only Delta force I've played was Delta force Land Warrior. I was blown away by it scale. And never knew it uses voxels for that. (Honestly i had no idea about voxels back then any way 🙂) It was some pirated CD i got from someone. Cause in begining of 2000s, was hard to get licensed games in Ukraine, and market was flooded with pirated copies (yet for money, but no one cared about that). Now i have Delta force Land Warrior on GOG. Very nice platform to buy some realy good old games. Thank you, Nostalgia Nerd for remind me about it.
Played blackhawk down when I was little all the time. I remember discovering ArmA on youtube when I was a teenager, it was a video just showing off a 2v2 pvp game between a couple people fighting over an oil pipe in Takistan. Having mainly played call of duty to that point, I was blown away by the realistic gameplay and animation, and instantly reminded of the old delta force games. Now I've got over 2k hours in the arma franchise, over a quarter of my entire playtime on steam. Thank you for covering this, the franchise is near and dear to me. New one looks awful, I'll stick to ArmA now lol. Looks like they couldn't help but copy the zeitgeist in making an obnoxious twitch shooter instead of choosing to not abuse the franchise name.
I remember playing DF3 at the local internet cafe in multiplayer, it was always a carry the flag map with a prison of sorts in the middle of the two opposite bases. It was super fun. It all stopped after Counter Strike appeared though.
I kind of remember that Capture the Flag map. I tried Counter Strike for awhile but it always felt kind of funky to me after playing the Delta Force games.
@@johnard611 Yeah, CS was a hard buy for me too, but I manage to enjoy it after it became the main game on our bootleg LAN at home, deposing Starcraft Broodwar and its endless shitty zerg rushes.
I never got to experience other than the demo of DF1 but boy I played it to death! The sniping and shooting grenades with the M4 was fantastic! I longed for DF2 especially because of the ability to hide in the grass and whatnot, but I didn't have the hardware for it, so DF experience for me started and ended with DF1 demo. Nowadays I've gotten the DF bundle from Steam so I can finally experience all that I missed over 20 years ago.
39 seconds in and there it is! 20 years i waited, but always tried to remember that damn awesome game from my childhood. i thought i lost you for ever. thank you
Mostly an advertisement for Tencent shoverlware that does not even come close to the original; a futuristic setting, no large maps but rather skirmish or CounterStrike-like play... Tarkov.
I discovered the series with Delta Force 2, having played a demo from a magazine CD I think. I was hugely impressed, parachuting into this vast undulating environment and shooting the few enemies below me to secure my immediate surroundings. The huge outdoor environment, the varied terrain, the tall grass- grass, which really looked like grass and within which you could be obscured from view - were all ground breaking for me because I had only had my first PC a short while. This was one of my highlights of my early PC gaming days, along with Medieval Total War, Operation Flashpoint (which rather eclipsed Delta Force 2 in many ways, but DF2 still had the lovely voxels!
I never realized back in the day but found out a few years ago by accident... DF2 actually has fully destructible buildings! Guard towers, base buildings, bunkers, etc. can be killed with either the LAW rocket launcher, satchel charges, or artillery strikes!
I really enjoyed Land Warrior, which I picked up YEARS ago from a charity shop. I also like Black Hawk Down, which is one of my go-to splitscreen shooters on PS2.
We used to play this at school. Most people opted for the nice looks, I cared way more about the frame rate, hence played at the lowest possible resolution, iirc it had some really weird option like 400x300, probably standard 800x600 with doubled pixels? Whatever, it played way smoother, and as a weird side effect, I could spot enemies from a lot further than the developers intended - all of them clearly stood out as discrete black pixels just near the horizon. All you had to do is hit the pixel, it was really, awfully easy to take out anyone. With this rather silly bug / cheat / call it whatever you want, from an average FPS player I suddenly became the grim reaper lurking in the distance. Boy, did they hate me... So it was not fun after a while, I felt it was hardly playable at higher resolutions, I had a clear unfair advantage in my preferred mode, so that was the end of my experience with DF.
I had a demo of Delta Force 2 that had one mission. Which I played until in could complete it at super fast speed basically on auto pilot. I now own the original 3 games and recently played them all again for nostalgia. Had loads of fun. Land Warrior takes its name from the Land Warrior trials the US army were under taking at the time. Which some of the games weapon systems are based on. These games are absolute classics and I’d love to see an exact remake of them. Hopefully (although it doesn’t sound too positive from the ti y blurb about it in this video) the remake will live up to the legacy of the OG 3 games
Land Warrior was a future soldier program by the US Army as I recall, and it was all the rage back then (obviously it got canned since it's the US Army that we're talking about)
I'm surprised you didn't mention the modding community, it's still going strong, 25 years later. And yeah don't get me started on this new game that's just reusing the name without having any connection to the gameplay of the series.
Man, I miss Delta Force. Land Warrior was one of the first titles I played as a kid, and Novalogic really did seem to know how to make the series work for a time.
I still play these games from time to time. The biggest hurdle is turning down the mouse sensitivity a ton, since I don't think the devs were thinking about mice with 12,000 dpi resolution back then
i remember having to turn off the L2 cache on my CPU in the bios motherboard to play delta force 2. otherwise it crash all the time...still i loved those game
I love delta force a lot. I wish Angel Falls came out but other than the campaign I cannot see at all the ability to call a Hero Shooter (DF:HO Multiplayer) "like the original formula". This game is it's own thing and from that, I think it's not gonna be as fun as Tip of The Spear is in that regard.
I can't believe someone big finally covered this franchise. It defined my childhood in a sense and expectations of what a military based fps could and should be. Just recently I've looked up reviews of the original games and there was almost nothing out there. Sponsored - but still, nice to see old games getting some coverage and mention they deserve. The new one looks like trash, tho. Rip Delta Force.
The "land warrior" tagline for Delta Force 3 is probably a reference to the US Army's Land Warrior program, which was a late-90s to mid-00s initiative to create a networked fighting force using portable computer systems, augmented reality goggles with built-in HUDs, and other commercially available gadgets and gizmos. It was a bit ahead of its time, but eventually evolved into the kit that US soldiers carry today.
You sir are totally correct! Back then the OICW was all the rage with it's grenade launcher in the media we had as the latest tech.
There is a reason Soldier of Fortune 2 wanted to slap it in there in their game as well.
Yes!!! I remember this being a thing.
Indeed it was. The featured OICW gun is a dead giveaway, as that was integral to the Land Warrior project. Some units in the U.S. Army even used that release of the game as a training simulator.
I spent wayyyy too many hours in that first mission of Delta Force! Pretty sure if I loaded it up today, I would still know where all the enemies spawned! Thanks for the nostalgia. I played this at my grandpa's house in the middle of the night after they had gone to sleep. He recently passed and this brings back some good memories of him teaching me to play it.
Don't forget Joint Operations, which was released late in the day by Novalogic. Epic scale battles and brilliant gameplay!
People always talk about Battlefield back in the day. But Joint Ops was up there.
Black hawk down, team sabre, and joint operations. My personal favorite 3. rip novalogic
Multiplayer wasnt mentioned for delta force. A modem connection and king of the hill made my entire afternoon. One of the first multiplayer games over the internet i ever played.
I’m so surprised there is so little coverage of this Franchise or any of the Novalogic games across RUclips. Very happy to see this.❤
There had better be voxels in the new game! And yes, I’m kidding, it’s a soulless F2P cashgrab with no self-awareness by the looks of it. 😂
The thing that truly blew my mind with Delta Force 1 way back when I first played it was that there was no "out of bounds" on the map... if you wanted to walk for 20 minutes in order to get to the top of the mountain on the other side of the enemy base for a better sniping position, well, you could!
Haha, we did the same thing. I remember the map itself repeating when we tried it. But the other player was still 20km away. Even if it was the same building the players weren't there. I think you could still hear shots though. I doubt they tested it for bored LAN kids, lol.
So damn cool, I remember this =)
I remember being blown away by the huge open landscapes in Delta Force. Made the maps of all the other FPSs I’d played up to that point seem tiny by comparison!
Was thinking of this for the entire video, glad to see others shared my amazement. I remember wondering why that game alone had that distinctive "fuzzy" look to it when I was a kid. I would go to the repeated terrain sections of the map to explore the area without any threats, but they gave me an eerie ghost-town feeling too.
Well that's a nostalgia trip, I remember playing these as a kid and loving them - excited for the new game!
Yeah. I remember playing this and sniping everywhere.
I'm very leery about the direction the reboot will take. In some cases it'd be better to let sleeping dogs lie.
@@bladesofsevenespecially if there’s going to be a mobile port. Gives me bad vibes.
Man, I remember spending HOURS playing Delta Force! It always ran smoothly, had some of the best graphics of its day, and was a ton of fun!
Hearing the sound effects and seeing the voxels in action in this video really took me back, thanks!
I remember playing the first Delta Force as a kid in a local gaming cafe, expecting it to be my usual shooter where I just waltzed in and mowed everything down. I remember long walks in large maps before I got my ass kicked so many times.
I was obsessed with DF:LW. Had knee surgery in 2001 and had lots of time on my hands, so I got pretty damn good at the online games they hosted.
"Always with the triangles". What a brilliant reference to Red Dwarf. I wonder how many caught it!
Delta Force was the first online FPS I played. Was over a 14.4 modem connection. I remember having to lead the lag to hit anything. Odd I got pretty good at it :P
the tech support lines for Novalogic were outsourced to the company I worked for, along with other games companies. Basically telling someone torestart their router, install a patch and update their drivers for 12 hours a day
I'd consider Delta Force to be the progenitor of not just milsims, but also large open world FPS games in general. I mean DOOM basically spawned the linear, corridor shooter. But stuff like Far Cry, ARMA, Sniper, Squad, even Battlefield owe their existence to Delta Force.
BHD is one of the best games I ever played, loved it!
Ah Delta Force, i remember playing the demo of it from a PC magazine CD that came with tons of demos (Nocturne, Unreal Tournament, Battlezone 2, Rainbow Six Rouge Spear, and many more)
I remember that my PC lacked the power to run the game properly, my PC at that time was shy of 16 MB of ram with a mere 8 MB of integrated graphics, but for the few seconds i could play of it (with frames in the single digits like a powerpoint presentation) i was amazed about this odd tech called "Voxels" back then, my young mind couldnt understand about "pixels with volume" and the fact that if i wanted i could literally break a hole into the enemy's base and keep blowing everything in my path and the terrain could deform and destroy with accuracy, it was mindblowing seeing such realistic way of handling damage to the enviroment in a video game.
I've spent so mch time ont he Novalogic games ! F-16, F-22, F/A-18, Armored Fist, Comanche 3, Delta Force... The Voxel Space 3D engine was really amazing for its era 🥰🥰
Man, my Dad loved these games when I was a kid (he's from the military); it's probably the reason why I have a soft spot particularly for Call of Duty campaign modes-some of my first ever PC game experiences were of ancient FPS games and tank sims!
Let's hope this can stay true to the originals otherwise it's just Tencent ruining more games. Some of my best early gaming memories were the Delta Force series, with 100s if not 1000s of hours in Black Hawk Down multiplayer hard to remember since I would come home and play until the wee hours of the morning like clockwork.
its hard to be optimistic when all the footage and buzzwords for the reboot make it look and sound absolutely nothing like the classic Delta Force games shown. Idk how im supposed to get excited about a Tencent BF clone with Delta Force's name slapped on top
To be frank the footage of the new game looked like another generic live service game. Too bad a real single player + Co-Op sequel might have been cool.
@@joe--cool I agree the end mission in Black Hawk Down was truly amazing! And from all the footage I've seen too it just seems like more of a generic FPS BF/COD clone so Tencent can take advantage of Delta Force name and not doubt tarnish it!
i'd bet it would feature microtransactions.
I was a BEAST on multiplayer as a sniper... I LOVED BHD. Had countless hundreds of hours in it. EVERY weekend my brother and I (half way across the country from each other) would get online and play for 4-6 hours.
Delta Force 2 is one of my favorite FPS and I still play it from time to time. Great game.
As an OG Delta Force fan (played 1 and LW a metric tonne as a kid), this franchise will always hold a special place in my heart. This is also helped by me going back to them on Steam a couple of years ago and doing some speedrunning. Even managed to get a couple of world records on LW. These are fantastic games and they deserve so much more love and recognition in my biased opinion.
I just hope that tencent can manage to not fuck up the new one...though I feel like I'm going to need to stock up on literal mountains of hopium/copium for that one.
These games were great and are oft forgotten. No games of the time had the ‘infinite’ landscape. Nice video I was well into these at the time, tho you skipped DF BHD which was huge and not just an add on etc. introduced vehicles etc and was massive online, tho that was perfected later by Joint Operations which was another good ‘Delta Force’ game, tho by that time Battlefield etc were taking off. Looking forward to the new game.
Had a lot of fun with the first Delta Force game back in the day. I loved Quake, but this was obviously very different. The slow pace and the threat of being killed by just a few bullets made it exciting in a completely different way. It almost feels like yesterday. Hard to believe 25 years have passed... 😄
How Delta Force came to be was that someone at Novalogic mod'd one of the flight sims into an FPS. John saw that people were staying after work to play it and decided to make it an actually game.
Man, I remember these games. I spent sooo much time in BHD multiplayer. Anyone else here remember GI Jane's Games?
Spent alot of nights and early mornings in BHD servers too! As the person who organized matches with other squads, I briefly checked out alot of different servers but I mostly played in our -Ozi- squad server.
the minute tencent was mentioned all interest i had in that game evaporated.
The Delta Force series is a seriously underrated gem in military FPS games. I still play DF: Xtreme and a couple of mods every week. That new Delta Force game looks horrible, like that terrible Comanche reboot that came out a few years ago with no spirit of the original games. One of my most anticipated games by NovaLogic that never released was Delta Force: Angel Falls, which should have come after DFX2.
I really remember this game so well. One of the few games that actually had bullet drop and extreme range sniping for a PC game.
I still have my copies.
When Voxels where a thing ... miss those times ... the most known game build on this Voxel tech was OutCast , and its weird that in 2023 we will finally get a sequel to it ...
The graphics for Delta Force 1 blew me away back then.
This was such a great time to be a gamer.
Joint Operations was one of my favorite multiplayer games
Look up Thunder Brigade for a sci/fi themed game with similar engine (completely written in assembly). We here in central europe totally did not have early 3d accelerators because cannot afford them - so with my pentium1 I was so happy that I could play these games like Thunder Brigade (owns still in box) and delta force (altough only had a demo).
Also if you look at these - they seriously look more impressive than polygon games of the same time! It is just that 3d accelerators came from an other technical direction so it was very hard to accelerate these with them.
Also look up new modern voxel engines with destructible terrain and vehicles and engine demos for that! I am a bit sad they did not make a though move and buy up some of the best of those and make delta force voxelfully great again - but I do understand the risks of course...
I remember in Delta force 2, before the patch if you had a ghillie suit and were more than 100 meters away, you were invisible... Or something to that effect... In multiplayer.
Yeah I remember hearing something about that too. Even after the patch alot of people still had bad lag on multiplayer maps with tall grass.
I was on a DFLW team that competed in some tournaments, great fun :)
Awesome! Played and hosted some DF1 and Black Hawk Down tournaments but not enough of the guys I played with were into Landwarrior. Would have loved to do some tournaments there!
The late 90's was such an amazing time to be a gamer. What I wouldn't give to relive that time.
Yes, there was still a lot of fertile ground to be explored in the gaming world back then. Lots of new genres and varying gameplay mechanics, combined with rapidly advancing technology, brought us some great games. But, the early 2000s brought us some massive advances too. Big, open worlds, with ultra detailed 3D environments and complex, multi faceted gameplay. Far Cry and Stalker were great examples.
I LOVED delta force 1. Firing an m203 into the enemy spawn from yours and through exact doors.. skill in of itself. Loved it.
Oh wow, I had forgotten that! I didn't like the puny m203 grenade explosions' in DF1 so I was a SAW monkey. But the beefy m203 in Black Hawk Down was pure heaven and those tricky claymore were an added bonus.
While I easily remember the box art on shelves back in the day, I just wasn't interested in military shooters until Battlefield 1942.
My dad loved Delta Force 2, and showed it to me and my brother as a kid.
I actually played Delta Force with colleagues back in 2000 when we had breaks on the job. That was fun :D
You kinda forgot Joint Operations, which was just amazing for its time. We had 256 player battles in a tournament called "International Conflict". It was glorious.
Delta force black hawk down was the best of them all. Surprised you didn't include it at all.
Man, I still have these games laying around! In fact, I stumped upon one of them the other day, looking for a movie, in my Blu-ray collection.
12:47 Deuz Ex is my favourite game. So under appreciated especially when compared with Deus Ex.
Came out in THE year... 2000. After 23 years 2k is still THE year.
2k was the year that I finally had the proper computer, internet connection, and time to play video games in multiplayer mode. The Delta Force 2 demo was my first exposure to the series. I ended up playing with a couple dozen people as we progressed from Delta Force 1 multiplayer to Task Force Dagger and then Black Hawk Down. Many of them went on to play Joint Operations but sadly my computer couldn't handle it, so I transitioned to World of Warcraft (another ground breaking video game) in the summer of 2005.
The first and only Delta force I've played was Delta force Land Warrior.
I was blown away by it scale. And never knew it uses voxels for that. (Honestly i had no idea about voxels back then any way 🙂)
It was some pirated CD i got from someone. Cause in begining of 2000s, was hard to get licensed games in Ukraine, and market was flooded with pirated copies (yet for money, but no one cared about that).
Now i have Delta force Land Warrior on GOG. Very nice platform to buy some realy good old games.
Thank you, Nostalgia Nerd for remind me about it.
The sniper online servers & maps for Delta Force 2 were epic.
Loved Comanche and Delta Force growing up, good memories.
Man I loved this series specifically 1&2. Land warrior was the last one I played and it just didnt grab me like the first 2 did.
Because DFLW wasnt as immersive as the first two games.
Listening to the video in the background whilst I do other things and hear "VAUXHALL Space Engine", expecting to see Richard Branson's Cavalier SRi
Played blackhawk down when I was little all the time. I remember discovering ArmA on youtube when I was a teenager, it was a video just showing off a 2v2 pvp game between a couple people fighting over an oil pipe in Takistan. Having mainly played call of duty to that point, I was blown away by the realistic gameplay and animation, and instantly reminded of the old delta force games. Now I've got over 2k hours in the arma franchise, over a quarter of my entire playtime on steam. Thank you for covering this, the franchise is near and dear to me.
New one looks awful, I'll stick to ArmA now lol. Looks like they couldn't help but copy the zeitgeist in making an obnoxious twitch shooter instead of choosing to not abuse the franchise name.
The original Delta Force still has an active small userbase. God, I love those voxels.
Props for the Dwarf reference. Great video I remember these well
I remember playing DF3 at the local internet cafe in multiplayer, it was always a carry the flag map with a prison of sorts in the middle of the two opposite bases. It was super fun.
It all stopped after Counter Strike appeared though.
I kind of remember that Capture the Flag map. I tried Counter Strike for awhile but it always felt kind of funky to me after playing the Delta Force games.
@@johnard611 Yeah, CS was a hard buy for me too, but I manage to enjoy it after it became the main game on our bootleg LAN at home, deposing Starcraft Broodwar and its endless shitty zerg rushes.
The "Land Warrior" title was reference to the US Army's Land Warrior program of the time.
I never got to experience other than the demo of DF1 but boy I played it to death! The sniping and shooting grenades with the M4 was fantastic!
I longed for DF2 especially because of the ability to hide in the grass and whatnot, but I didn't have the hardware for it, so DF experience for me started and ended with DF1 demo.
Nowadays I've gotten the DF bundle from Steam so I can finally experience all that I missed over 20 years ago.
Onto accelerator cards: I'd LOVE to see a Nostalgia Nerd episode on 3Dfx's story, its rise and fall. There's quite a lot of content to cover
Always with the triangles. Red Dwarf. Loved that episode.
Jesus this has taken me back - I forgot all about this series
0:45 "Squakenet," now there's a name I haven't seen in a while.
Real blast from the past. I did not expect this.
39 seconds in and there it is! 20 years i waited, but always tried to remember that damn awesome game from my childhood. i thought i lost you for ever. thank you
Mostly an advertisement for Tencent shoverlware that does not even come close to the original; a futuristic setting, no large maps but rather skirmish or CounterStrike-like play... Tarkov.
I discovered the series with Delta Force 2, having played a demo from a magazine CD I think. I was hugely impressed, parachuting into this vast undulating environment and shooting the few enemies below me to secure my immediate surroundings. The huge outdoor environment, the varied terrain, the tall grass- grass, which really looked like grass and within which you could be obscured from view - were all ground breaking for me because I had only had my first PC a short while. This was one of my highlights of my early PC gaming days, along with Medieval Total War, Operation Flashpoint (which rather eclipsed Delta Force 2 in many ways, but DF2 still had the lovely voxels!
I never realized back in the day but found out a few years ago by accident... DF2 actually has fully destructible buildings! Guard towers, base buildings, bunkers, etc. can be killed with either the LAW rocket launcher, satchel charges, or artillery strikes!
The DF2 demo was my first exposure to the series too! I think I actually downloaded it although I did get a fair amount of demos from magazine CDs.
Tencent... That explains it. This is just another soulless COD reskin, sharing nothing in common with the Delta Force games i loved as a kid 😢
Don't forget the greatest voxel game of all time - Outcast.
you forgot to mention Delta Force: Urban Warfare for PS1, but honestly thats probably better left unmentioned
So glad to see a new video. Keep it up! Love your content. :D
Great video. Would love to see more retrospectives of 90s game series’. Stuff from Looking-glass perhaps. 😍
I remember I bought one of these games 17 years ago that came with a free copy of a delta force movie.
I loved how suicidal Charlie team was.
I really enjoyed Land Warrior, which I picked up YEARS ago from a charity shop. I also like Black Hawk Down, which is one of my go-to splitscreen shooters on PS2.
We used to play this at school. Most people opted for the nice looks, I cared way more about the frame rate, hence played at the lowest possible resolution, iirc it had some really weird option like 400x300, probably standard 800x600 with doubled pixels? Whatever, it played way smoother, and as a weird side effect, I could spot enemies from a lot further than the developers intended - all of them clearly stood out as discrete black pixels just near the horizon.
All you had to do is hit the pixel, it was really, awfully easy to take out anyone. With this rather silly bug / cheat / call it whatever you want, from an average FPS player I suddenly became the grim reaper lurking in the distance. Boy, did they hate me... So it was not fun after a while, I felt it was hardly playable at higher resolutions, I had a clear unfair advantage in my preferred mode, so that was the end of my experience with DF.
I had a demo of Delta Force 2 that had one mission. Which I played until in could complete it at super fast speed basically on auto pilot. I now own the original 3 games and recently played them all again for nostalgia. Had loads of fun. Land Warrior takes its name from the Land Warrior trials the US army were under taking at the time. Which some of the games weapon systems are based on.
These games are absolute classics and I’d love to see an exact remake of them. Hopefully (although it doesn’t sound too positive from the ti y blurb about it in this video) the remake will live up to the legacy of the OG 3 games
Ahh yes Deuz Ex my favorite.
Land Warrior was a future soldier program by the US Army as I recall, and it was all the rage back then (obviously it got canned since it's the US Army that we're talking about)
Imho Delta Force 2 and Land warrior was a blast back then, loved then. Great video
True Story: The IT Head installed it our servers at the fourth largest bank in Chicago, and we all played after work.
I Loved Delta Force Blackhawk Down, I still have it installed
At 0:26 "Ok yes we get the idea" gets a very different closed caption
I'm surprised you didn't mention the modding community, it's still going strong, 25 years later.
And yeah don't get me started on this new game that's just reusing the name without having any connection to the gameplay of the series.
Wow. There’s a game I haven’t thought of in a long, long time. We used to play DF:LW at some LAN parties. Setting up that IPX/SPX network.
Loved these games defo a big part of my childhood. Also cant wait to visit your new wee venue 😊
Loved playing Delta Force across lan with a mate. Another at the time, Project IGI - thoroughly enjoyed those 2 games.
you missed out on Delta Force 2 best feature .....Mission maker ....quick easy to use and lot you could do ...built into the game
Oh hey, didn't expect to see this... I've got a copy of Delta Force still in plastic on my shelf. =P
Man, I miss Delta Force.
Land Warrior was one of the first titles I played as a kid, and Novalogic really did seem to know how to make the series work for a time.
I still play these games from time to time. The biggest hurdle is turning down the mouse sensitivity a ton, since I don't think the devs were thinking about mice with 12,000 dpi resolution back then
I fully played Delta Force 1 to 3, loved them totally, a real blast from my past :)
Nice choice of background music
The game's surrounding and the hills remind me of "Jurassic Park: Trespasser (1998)" game. An odd game yet an interesting one for the franchise.
Got the game when I was young. Didn't know what to do, so I dropped it for GTA iii. I'll take a look at this later. Thanks for the reminder.
Didn't novalogic do WolfPack in 190? I found that to be pretty futuristic in terms of a lot of mechanics back then
Didn't you try Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising? It totally rocked in lan coop.
i remember having to turn off the L2 cache on my CPU in the bios motherboard to play delta force 2. otherwise it crash all the time...still i loved those game
I love delta force a lot. I wish Angel Falls came out but other than the campaign I cannot see at all the ability to call a Hero Shooter (DF:HO Multiplayer) "like the original formula". This game is it's own thing and from that, I think it's not gonna be as fun as Tip of The Spear is in that regard.
my favorite game back then i was in the navy and was one of the best on my ship awesome game extreme is my favorite version
Amazing games. loved them back in the day. there hellicoper sim was great also.
Oh memories of DF... So good.
I can't believe someone big finally covered this franchise. It defined my childhood in a sense and expectations of what a military based fps could and should be.
Just recently I've looked up reviews of the original games and there was almost nothing out there.
Sponsored - but still, nice to see old games getting some coverage and mention they deserve.
The new one looks like trash, tho. Rip Delta Force.