As someone who was a kid when this came all, all the games from this era dont look bad to me, they all just look nostalgic. Imho early ps3/360 games look way worse than this for whatever reason. Id take these graphics over army of twos graphics any day
First FPS game I ever played, and probably the first game I ever played online. My dad liked the movie and bought the game for our family computer. Such a nostalgic classic for me & its cool to see a video on it over 20 years later.
Literally the same story for me. Played Multi-player for several years until we had a computer that could play BF2 lol. Before that, only played Combat Flight Sims, but never online with those. I sure do miss Wings Over Vietnam
@@jesusvz4445 SO REALLL. Like it doesn't even feel like a delta force. It just feels like a battlefield 2.0 Or what bf2042 should have been. Delta force isn't anything similar or close to original delta force I think they should just rename it to something else completely. Even the game squad feels like a proper delta force but with single-player missing.
New Delta Force slaps....old Delta Force was focused on campaigns...New shooters are all about multiplayer pvp experience. You can't expect them to make the same game.
It wasn't just this game, non-linear maps were so much more common in FPS back then, it gave you the choice on how to approach a battle instead of being funneled down a narrow route, that's what made these games so much more immersive than most games today.
I thought it was a bit limited in BHD, since now it had an area trigger that if you leave the main mission area then the game is over, though its not that bad since you can still have choices on how to engage, while the previous titles on the other hand, you can literally go everywhere, hell even go far to the horizon since the terrain maps are endless 😆
One such example i believe would be the two IGI games. Like boy were they confusing just because of the large scaled maps with seemingly no invisible wall barrier to stop you from getting out of bounds (ignoring Anya's annoying messages). As a kid myself i had a hard time figuring my way out on both of the games, wouldn't lie:- i still do as an adult xD
@@abirbharadwaj89 Project IGI blew my mind as a kid, I couldn't believe I could explore the entire map instead of finding invisible walls. When games had smaller and restrictive maps that game felt revolutionary.
I played SO MUCH BHD when I was younger; it really was my gateway into the FPS genre. Even though I had gotten into Battlefield as well, mostly 1942, Vietnam, and 2142, I don't think I played any game as hard as I did Delta Force Black Hawk Down until CoD4 came out. Especially those custom multiplayer maps: if I found a server doing a rotation of custom maps, those were my absolute favorites just from the sheer craziness some of them could get up to.
Man I remember playing this custom map where it was just one huge cone shaped slide and the teams spawned across from each other, never found it again after that day but BOY was I having the time of my life then, I miss BHD Multiplayer so much
Yeah, the customization for multiplayer maps was insane, i remember I made a medieval castle with traps, and walls and towers made with tje metal cargo containers lol
They should make some 80s-90s BF with several envoirements like Afghanistan and Mogadishu, that would be finally something new after countless of WW2 and futuristic shit no one wanted, most BF players desire this setting. Just classic BF3/4 with modern age but not hyperfuturistic weaponry.
Yeah, wild to think we're all 20 years older but have ended up back here with this game. I thought for sure this beloved game would be resigned to the history books but here we are.
2:56 This type of blurring should be in every game. It is what it looks like in real life. As an example, it would make EVERY sight in Tarkov useful. Now most sights in most games block so much from your view it's not even worth using. This would be game changing, in most FPS games you play now
Mine too! My uncle had it and I was visiting him for vacation and played it for days until it was time to go back home. Bought my first PC after that and bought TFD first because it was the newer game at the time I bought my computer. Been hooked on FPS games ever since lol
If anyone wants to relive the nostalgic days please consider supporting the game Tip of the Spear: Task Force Elite. This game was developed to be a modern day version of BHD (unlike Delta Force: Task Force Dagger). Hoping the game can get more traction to get it off the ground and bring back memories of the game we all came to know and love.
I just watched a youtube video of some gameplay and it looks awesome! I went to find it on steam, but it didn't have an option to buy it. It's in my wishlist, but that's about it for now. Hope it gets released because I can see myself playing it for sure.
This was my first FPS game. I still remember the mission in the tunnels with enemies camping in the corners. Also I'm pretty sure that this game is the reason why 3 Color Desert camo is still one of my favorite camos.
Playing Hawk Ops just makes me want a remaster (or new version of) of Joint Operations more than anything else. I mean, JO was so, so ahead of its time and I spent so much time playing it along with so many friends and clan/guild members back then. Such a good game. Miss it so much :(
this game an battlefield 1942 are more then just games to me at this point. Reminds me of my time in the Army. We would stay up all night playing these games, and hate life when we would be woken up at 5 am to run 6 miles.... Then do exact same thing the same night, and we wondered why we were always tired!
There was a 24 hour marathon hosted by the Makersfield community in 2007, unfortunately I barely missed the main price: A copy of COD4. Yet it was lovely, always full servers and endless custom maps. Gaming felt so much better in those days. For modern children its to imagine how primitive and slow the PCs were back then. They likely never used a singlecore in their life and my next CPU is likely going to have as much on die cache as my entire PC used to have in 2005.
I loved the Delta Force games when I was younger. DF2 was my first foray into modern “tactical” shooters and was a cool break-away from the arena shooters of the day.
Say what? This franchise was very popular back in the day. People don't remember them now because they all have COD on the brain, but there would be no COD without Novalogic.
You should try Joint Operations! It's made by the same devs roughly around the same time! (Think it came out a few years later) Played that so much as a kid and still revisit it from time to time. It has working multiplayer and is on steam. Looks exactly like this game pretty much.
Is that MP still working on Steam? DFBHD seems not, at least I cannot register on NovaWorld the website simply won't load. The only way is Gameranger, which means low playerbase and not densely populated servers. But at least it seems to grow right now, we've hit 30 players recently. Events / Gamenights are the best way to deal with this for now, just as the ExE CoD4 gamenights.
This game had the best Team King of the Hill TKOH of any shooter. Arma3 had a few servers that got close to the feel but Blackhawk Down nailed it. Former 3 time GOA in BHD 19-20 years ago and I'm stoked to give this new one a go!
Multiplayer of the original Delta Force: Black Hawk Down is still alive as well. It was just moved to a different hosting company. If you get the right download you can still play multiplayer.
This was my start into FPS games. Classic, addicting multiplayer. Absolutely fantastic - loved running around with the AT4 and one-shotting people or getting literal quad kills (4 kills with one bullet) with the G3 or M240. Insane.
I remember downloading 1942 Demo when it came out and I probably have more time in 1942, but man, the crazy multiplayer maps people made in Black Hawk Down resulted in some of the most fun I ever had in games back then.
If you play or seen the previous Delta Force titles before BHD, you realize how much of a step up it was, from the level design, music, voice acting and they finally animated the weapons reloading because the first and second game only had static reloads while in Land Warrior and TFD they made the weapons view 2d like in Doom and go offscreen when you reload
This game has me so hyped. DF BHD was the first video game I ever played. My dad bought it and let me play while he watched. This game and the first FarCry are core videogame memories for me.
This game was special for a multitude of reasons. The best thing about it was the multiplayer, and the custom maps. Me and my dad were both in a Clan for years after its hay-day. One of the cooler things that came out of it was the self policing in terms of cheating. As far as the PlayStation 2 port goes , it’s awful. Its frame-rate alone looks like something off the N64 , and this is a game where you really want a mouse and keyboard.
The multiplayer was INSANE back then. Wish you could've thrown in some clips of that. The creativity the map creators had reminded me of CS source. I remember whole arena maps constructed exclusively out of shipping containers. Was wildly popular back in the day too.
DF:BHD was my first experience with mission/map editors. I spent hundreds of hours making various scenarios, campaigns, maps etc, and then showing them and playing with my friends. Good times. Thanks to the mission editor I know the game inside out. Which brings me to something you said about enemy AI. On its own, the AI is very simple. If enemy is detected, the AI agent just runs in the straight line until it gets in firing range and starts shooting. It took a lot of scripting for NovaLogic to make the game as immersive as it is!
Love how eye relief is accurately shown where the optics' periphery are blurred and receded in prominence. Human eye focus artifacting is more than just blurred depth of field. That said, I did prefer when games don't zoom an entire screen when focusing in on a sight picture.
The original Delta Force is what got me started back in the day; played just about all of them. This is pure nostalgia man. Big Thanks for the trip down memory lane 👍 Really hope the Chinese publisher does this franchise some justice.
I remember buying this game and still have it in storage somewhere. DF games were all the rage before COD came out! America's Army was also the sheet back then.
The water looked very good for 2003. Also the way particles lit up the night sky. It was less linear, because the original Delta Force games are even more "open". It's one of the first realistic franchises
Those days were something special. Played BHD to death. Then went onto Joint Operations. Brings me back to the clanbase days. Cool content. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
The map editor for Delta Force games were so cool you could raise the ceiling so high you could fall for miles making two slides a quarter of a mile apart and shoot people from both slides, you could build two platforms a mile apart 5 mi up in the sky throw some boxes on the platforms and snipe from them it was so f****** cool
I had been playing Delta Force: Xtreme 2 until about 3 years ago. The visuals weren't much better, but the multiplayer gameplay was so clean and challenging.
You should try Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising from NovaLogic, the makers of Delta Force. Joint Ops came out in 2004 but had 150 player servers and day/night cycle. That was a great game.
Old DF player here. Back in late 2002 I was buying PC parts to build a computer in anticipation to play R6: Raven Shield and DF: Black Hawk Down, I got both games by 2003 and found Black Hawk Down the more better game, not because of graphics or campaign level design, but the fun factor and the multiplayer was in my opinion superior. Indeed it was the multiplayer component that BHD really shone with some vicious CQB knife fights and firefights along with sniper duels at incredible ranges up to 1500 meters plus. If the devs for the remake were really smart, they should make a serious PvP multiplayer component with 8 vs 8 up to 32 vs 32 MP maps and sell it as a possible standalone DLC or include it with the campaign.
Ah the good old days of ventrilo and teamspeak. I remember playing this game non stop for a few years. Multiplayer was second to none in my opinion. Getting a headshot with a sniper rifle from far away is still a feeling unmatched by most fps games of today.
Played on PC and Playstation 2. My high alumni earned the medal of honor during operation Gothic servant. Randal shurgart. They named the post office in my hometown in Newville pa after him
Wow I think I remember your squad. If you guys are the ones I remember, you were pretty damn good. But it would have been from JO:TR, our squad rarely played BHD. Petty Officer Third Class here, or PO3 for short lol
Hey Level, ive been watching you since i was a kid, and i wanted to tell you ive been watching you since your airsoft videos. You inspired me to play, and i can happily say 9-10 years later, Im now a buisness owner in the sport, My team is ranked #1 in the world, and Im now persuing a professional career in it. Thank you for your videos. I saw your video in my recommended, and figured I should give my thanks to the guy who Inspired me to buy a cheap combat machine and be ALMOST as cool as you were in those videos. Hope all is well.
This is Nostalgic. I really struggled with river raid mission back in the day because of the minefield. This game is putting emphasis more on the gameplay than it's visuals
this video took me back... playing this a LOT when i was 10-11 and it's difficulty and open maps is probably what got me into milsim games in the future.. hell, i even remember trying and failing to learn source SDK with the plan to remake one of the maps in this for insurgency back when THAT was a mod for hl2
I grew up with this game but then moved on to the massively larger Joint Ops, ran with the squad KillersForHire for years. Made some life long friend’s there.
brings back so many memories! i was hooked on the Delta Force series as a kid, played so many hours with my dad. Delta Force 2 and Black Hawk down had really fun COOP and PVP servers back then! PSG-1 on Black Hawk Down PVP was awesome! Both Delta Force 2 and Delta Force: Black Hawk Down are still available for purchase on Steam!
I went from NovaLogic's _F-16 Fighting Falcon,_ which I bought blind off the shelf 'cause it was there, to the _Delta Force_ demo included on that CD, then _Delta Force_ proper, _MiG-29 Fulcrum_ at some point, and then I found the _Delta Force Black Hawk Down_ demo on a CD in a gaming magazine, I think, and I spend most of my gaming time playing a mod of _Joint Operations_ I like to experiment in these days, but if there's a game I love more than DFBHD (with the _Team Sabre_ expansion), then I must've been neuralyzed, 'cause I know that game no longer. I _love_ DFBHD(TS). Because of the mission editor, and because DFBHD(TS) is fairly easy to mod. Making missions in the MEd is a bit tricky, and the learning curve is steep, but it's _so_ rewarding. Getting a helicopter to make that tricky landing is a slog for a while, but once you lock down exactly how stupid the helicopter AI is, you can work around it. The machine guns (M249 SAW, M60, and the M240) in DFBHD(TS) do not ADS. I wanted to fix that. I learned how to mod sights onto the MGs. And then it went _insanely deeper._ DFBHD out of the box is good fun, if you can tolerate the little things that bother me about it. DFBHD(TS) is also good, even if it adds its own set of little things to tolerate. They call it 'the left-lean glitch,' 'cause 'the head should also tip left when leaning left glitch' is too wordy. But beware the mission editor. The MEd _hates._ The MEd hates _you._ It'll do whatever you want it to, but only so it can do it wrong, and drive you insane. You can learn how to master the MEd, to corral its malicious caprices into enjoyable gameplay, but it will cost you much more of your cognition than you may feel is fair. The joy is that, once you've sacrificed enough of your brainspace mastering the MEd, you won't be able to understand how badly it's broken you! The Claw of the MEdness! It _so_ divinely wounds! * unhinged giggling * Playing user-made custom maps: if you don't add the /d tag to your shortcut target line, people, you're gonna have a bad time. Okay, you'll still have a goodish time, but you'll have a much better time if you add the /d tag to the shortcut target line. I've come to terms with my love/hate relationship with NeverLogic games. There was so much potential in them. I feel like another year of development, and an additional year of debugging and updating would've made _Delta Force Black Hawk Down_ the best first-person shooter that ever existed. I love that potential, and it breaks my heart to see how it was unfulfilled. And will _Delta Force Hawk Ops_ revive the franchise? Oh, I dare not hope. I dare not hope, but I just might. Because NeverLogic!
Dont remember how it was in Delta Force but a random feature in Joint Operations I ever since want to see in more games is that if someone is hitting the grass at a distance, where the grass wasn't rendered anymore, the player model got a coating the same as the surrounding terrain colour.
It was my favorite shooter. It grew into Joint Operations (mass multi player) which was awesome. It was even better with the international conflict mod which hosted weekly 100v100. The teams would 2 different countries for a few weeks with modded vehicles and maps to fit the fit. It was so much fun. I believe the group moved into arma 3.
Oh man this was the first game I ever bought with my own money for PC. So many memories! I adored this game and I remember this was one of the few games that challenged me. I can't wait to see the remake! I had no idea it even existed until now!
Love your comment on the AI difficulty. Growing up playing early tactical shooters (Rainbow 6, the original PC version, Spec Ops Gold, and Ghost Recon) on PC. It seems like all the developers agreed to make the AI difficulty "normal" as today's challenging. It absolutely made completing task and missions so rewarding.
This is the game that made me buy my first ever gaming PC. Read the book by Bowden, watched the movie, and then I got this and played the campaign and scripted my own missions when I grew tired of the campaign. Probably why I now love Arma 3 so much. Really hope the remake does it justice.
This was my childhood... The first time I played with 64GB RAM which was lower than recomended but later on with 128GB RAM and finished it finally... I loved the game & the movie...
Loved this game growing up. Started playing it on my PS2 at seven years old, along with Finest Hour, Medal of Honor, etc. However, it was something about this game that felt gritty, and real. Probably in my top five shooters of all time.
One game I advice you to take a look at, but know that you can no longer experience to its best, Joint operations: Typhoon Rising. It was the culmination of the Delta force series by Novalogic. It had massive battles. 150 player servers. Two factions, and with an expansion it brought Tanks and Apaches to the vehicle list. Sometimes battles would last for hours. It was insane, but didn't have the polish that other games of the time had, Battlefield 2. COD4 on the horizon also.
We still play JOTR, but there are no official servers anymore. On a normal night there is maybe 25-35 players on the same server, sometimes less sometimes more, even full 64 a few times this year.
Been playing the Delta Force games since the first two in the early 90s, BHD was a step above all of them really in graphics, while the others had an even bigger scale, BHD's multiplayer was still alive until 2009 or so when it was the last time I played, one thing that always annoyed me was the slow robotic reload animations, on the expansion Team Sabre the few new guns dont have it, I guess Novalogic was always a bit limited on resources but still did a few good games among all the repeated releases they've done
I used to play this game in co-op with my neighbor when we were kids. He’s not a biger gamer but when hawk ops was announced he sent me the trailer before i could send it to him (i was watching the showcase live) We used to also love the LAN pvp modes as well. There was one map with high towers/builds and we loved seting satchel charges on the steps up lol. We’re both really excited for the remake tbh. Earlier this year we replayed the entire halo franchises campaign together to take a trip down memory lane. We live in different states but we still hop on xbox as a way to hang out from far away. He almost exclusively plays military shooters aside from a few other games like red dead, gta, the last of us, and state of decay 2 (all shooters still lol) and im a big rpg guy but I definitely hit him up every time a shooter itch comes up or a game he actually wants to play comes out.
Damn, such good memories. Used to play it with my dad, we used to play it in turns, great times. Miss ya dad! If they remake this, the child in me is gonna lose it in the best way possible 💌
I remember making custom maps with large amounts of those "stay away" grandpas chasing you through a prison. Once I killed a hundred of them at once with an AT4 and my PC was stuck for like one minute calculating this explosion. And the enemies have their weapons grown into their hands, they die if you shoot the AK.
@@voyagerdeepspaceexploratio5023 didnt you get penalty of klling civillians? because I remember you got mission failed if you killed a lot civs. Correct me if I am wrong
I played Delta Force: BHD splitscreen on the playstation (2, probably) with a friend. 1v1 - sometimes we'd do the missions in coop. And man, it's insane - I still remember all the maps and they were great. What I struggled with most back in the day was the visuals, since we had this low res TV monitor with very noticeable horizontal lines. Those are memories that you can't really make anymore these days. Good times.
I'm in my 30s now... And back when I was 10-11ish, my dad got it for our family computer he recently got and used it as like a fun way to teach me and my brother different military tactics. Mostly how to snipe and stay hidden. So once my brother got a computer my dad would start up Lan games between me and my brother just to see who could win in sniper battles.....those are honestly some of my best memories
For a game from 2003 it honestly doesn’t look too bad
New one Looks lil dated but with better server support/stability n future updates, being F2P this game should do pretty well itself...
As someone who was a kid when this came all, all the games from this era dont look bad to me, they all just look nostalgic.
Imho early ps3/360 games look way worse than this for whatever reason.
Id take these graphics over army of twos graphics any day
Artistic choices can go a long way.
Friendly models look okay, but the enemies look hideous.
@@NateT092 the new game doesnt look dated at all.
First FPS game I ever played, and probably the first game I ever played online. My dad liked the movie and bought the game for our family computer. Such a nostalgic classic for me & its cool to see a video on it over 20 years later.
Literally the same story for me. Played Multi-player for several years until we had a computer that could play BF2 lol.
Before that, only played Combat Flight Sims, but never online with those. I sure do miss Wings Over Vietnam
@Drew-v2f it was a good Alpha, couldn't play the PvEvP game, (light Tarkov 😂), but Warfare I could play for hours. Hit General V before the end
7:00 is actually a really good demonstration of how iron sights work when you look through them.
same story dude my dad also bought me this game then COD United offensive
New game is only delta Force in name.
Yeah is like chinese publisher/devs only bought the rights for the name and put on a BF2042 clone.
You think that the Chinese cares about style?
@@jesusvz4445 SO REALLL. Like it doesn't even feel like a delta force. It just feels like a battlefield 2.0 Or what bf2042 should have been. Delta force isn't anything similar or close to original delta force I think they should just rename it to something else completely. Even the game squad feels like a proper delta force but with single-player missing.
@@Mr_Schizodefinitely more that CoD with it's fake guns
New Delta Force slaps....old Delta Force was focused on campaigns...New shooters are all about multiplayer pvp experience. You can't expect them to make the same game.
It wasn't just this game, non-linear maps were so much more common in FPS back then, it gave you the choice on how to approach a battle instead of being funneled down a narrow route, that's what made these games so much more immersive than most games today.
That’s why I enjoy GR Wildlands. I can just steal a helo, fly to an overlook, figure out my approach and do it my way.
@@NandR I was thinking about getting into GR but I thought everyone was playing Breakpoint because of the modding community.
I thought it was a bit limited in BHD, since now it had an area trigger that if you leave the main mission area then the game is over, though its not that bad since you can still have choices on how to engage, while the previous titles on the other hand, you can literally go everywhere, hell even go far to the horizon since the terrain maps are endless 😆
One such example i believe would be the two IGI games. Like boy were they confusing just because of the large scaled maps with seemingly no invisible wall barrier to stop you from getting out of bounds (ignoring Anya's annoying messages).
As a kid myself i had a hard time figuring my way out on both of the games, wouldn't lie:- i still do as an adult xD
@@abirbharadwaj89 Project IGI blew my mind as a kid, I couldn't believe I could explore the entire map instead of finding invisible walls. When games had smaller and restrictive maps that game felt revolutionary.
I played SO MUCH BHD when I was younger; it really was my gateway into the FPS genre. Even though I had gotten into Battlefield as well, mostly 1942, Vietnam, and 2142, I don't think I played any game as hard as I did Delta Force Black Hawk Down until CoD4 came out. Especially those custom multiplayer maps: if I found a server doing a rotation of custom maps, those were my absolute favorites just from the sheer craziness some of them could get up to.
Man I remember playing this custom map where it was just one huge cone shaped slide and the teams spawned across from each other, never found it again after that day but BOY was I having the time of my life then, I miss BHD Multiplayer so much
Delta Force 2, Task Force Dagger, and Black Hawk Down were the first shooters I played. Surprisingly with very little lag on 56k dial up.
The best part was using that dial up lag to your advantage; made CQB with a M60 super fun :)
🙏❤️ those were my childhood games. Simulation games were prime for those days.
Also Delta Force Land Warrior was good, the CIA guy had jeans and trainers.
TFD was my shit! I actually played primarily death match only and had over a quarter million kills. 200,000 deaths to go with them though lol
I even remember making my own multiplayer maps.. high nostalgia
Yeah, the customization for multiplayer maps was insane, i remember I made a medieval castle with traps, and walls and towers made with tje metal cargo containers lol
The Claw of the MEdness: it _so_ divinely wounds! * cackles of insanity *
Yup, this was such a good game
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Yeah the map editor was badass I was in a squad from Australia I was in the US and we had a fun time with the map editor
I love the 90s aesthetic too. I’ve always wanted DICE to make Battlefield 1992
Cool idea!
They should make some 80s-90s BF with several envoirements like Afghanistan and Mogadishu, that would be finally something new after countless of WW2 and futuristic shit no one wanted, most BF players desire this setting. Just classic BF3/4 with modern age but not hyperfuturistic weaponry.
Cheesing the Mogadishu mile as a kid by laying on top of a Humvee was one of my favorite moments.
Bro i used to do that so much back then but i just couldnt leave my team behind lol
I feel great knowing I possibly played against some of you back in the day of this game online. Great online experience.
Yeah, wild to think we're all 20 years older but have ended up back here with this game. I thought for sure this beloved game would be resigned to the history books but here we are.
i always come to these hoping to bump into someone I gamed with back then. Made some really good friends in a clan on this game. 3rdXC
This video just unlocked memories from my childhood.
At my uncles house thinking this is the best game ever 😮😂
2:56 This type of blurring should be in every game. It is what it looks like in real life. As an example, it would make EVERY sight in Tarkov useful. Now most sights in most games block so much from your view it's not even worth using. This would be game changing, in most FPS games you play now
Delta force land warrior was my intro to fps games and I loved it, a cherished memory for sure
LW was life from '00-'09
Mine too! My uncle had it and I was visiting him for vacation and played it for days until it was time to go back home. Bought my first PC after that and bought TFD first because it was the newer game at the time I bought my computer. Been hooked on FPS games ever since lol
If anyone wants to relive the nostalgic days please consider supporting the game Tip of the Spear: Task Force Elite. This game was developed to be a modern day version of BHD (unlike Delta Force: Task Force Dagger).
Hoping the game can get more traction to get it off the ground and bring back memories of the game we all came to know and love.
I just watched a youtube video of some gameplay and it looks awesome! I went to find it on steam, but it didn't have an option to buy it. It's in my wishlist, but that's about it for now. Hope it gets released because I can see myself playing it for sure.
@@mojorusty that's weird. They must have closed open access and capped it to people who already bought it.
Yeah no clue. All I could do is put it on my wishlist. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it one day, looks like it would be a fun game.
delta force 1, 2, black hawk down and typhoon rising was the absolute GOAT.
This was my first FPS game. I still remember the mission in the tunnels with enemies camping in the corners. Also I'm pretty sure that this game is the reason why 3 Color Desert camo is still one of my favorite camos.
Playing Hawk Ops just makes me want a remaster (or new version of) of Joint Operations more than anything else. I mean, JO was so, so ahead of its time and I spent so much time playing it along with so many friends and clan/guild members back then. Such a good game. Miss it so much :(
Still fill a 64 slot server now and then, but more like 25-35 players on normal days.
JO was the best! AAS was so much fun, miss those days and my squad mates.
OGs remember International Conflict a huge community that had battles every Sunday for Joint Ops! Great community. Miss those days.
I used to play this game a lot. The online sniper matches are my favourite memories of gaming 'back in the day'. Awesome game.
You could run miles away from the combat zone, take a prone on a hill and take shots. The maps had no borders, endless landscape…
@@gokhankalyoncu1746so you were one of them 😂
@@Wakuppeopletheywanttocontrolus yes, I confess😂
this game an battlefield 1942 are more then just games to me at this point. Reminds me of my time in the Army. We would stay up all night playing these games, and hate life when we would be woken up at 5 am to run 6 miles.... Then do exact same thing the same night, and we wondered why we were always tired!
1942 is my favorite game of all time. The mods on that game were amazing. DC mod and Pirates mod. Miss it so much.
There was a 24 hour marathon hosted by the Makersfield community in 2007, unfortunately I barely missed the main price: A copy of COD4. Yet it was lovely, always full servers and endless custom maps. Gaming felt so much better in those days. For modern children its to imagine how primitive and slow the PCs were back then. They likely never used a singlecore in their life and my next CPU is likely going to have as much on die cache as my entire PC used to have in 2005.
I loved the Delta Force games when I was younger. DF2 was my first foray into modern “tactical” shooters and was a cool break-away from the arena shooters of the day.
This was one of the games of my childhood beside AOE, endless nights of MP addiction long before CoD4 became a thing.
Aiming down sights in this game is more realistic than actually any modern game. The scope rendering is pretty realistc
Kinda sad that nobody knew about this franchise until the new one came out.
We live in sad times.
angel falls never came out and the studio was shut down after using pirated software.
I knew about it
We're ogs
You never knew about it
Say what? This franchise was very popular back in the day. People don't remember them now because they all have COD on the brain, but there would be no COD without Novalogic.
You should try Joint Operations! It's made by the same devs roughly around the same time! (Think it came out a few years later) Played that so much as a kid and still revisit it from time to time. It has working multiplayer and is on steam. Looks exactly like this game pretty much.
Larger player counts and vehicles, it had so much potential. Shame it wasn't as popular as BHD
That co-op map with the helicopters and two islands was insane lol
I have never gone on steam and purchased a game so fast in my life, you just brought me back to my childhood, thank you
@@joshuakasey5333 haha no worries man!
Is that MP still working on Steam? DFBHD seems not, at least I cannot register on NovaWorld the website simply won't load. The only way is Gameranger, which means low playerbase and not densely populated servers. But at least it seems to grow right now, we've hit 30 players recently. Events / Gamenights are the best way to deal with this for now, just as the ExE CoD4 gamenights.
This game had the best Team King of the Hill TKOH of any shooter. Arma3 had a few servers that got close to the feel but Blackhawk Down nailed it. Former 3 time GOA in BHD 19-20 years ago and I'm stoked to give this new one a go!
I played TKOTH matches too. Check my playlist.
KotH was where it was at in the DF servers
Multiplayer of the original Delta Force: Black Hawk Down is still alive as well. It was just moved to a different hosting company. If you get the right download you can still play multiplayer.
What if you have the original disc? Could I still join a server using that?
@mojorusty Yes I play the disc version works fine as long as you have v1.5.0.5
@@Joshua-yj1eo Not sure which version it is, it's the team saber edition. I'll dig it out one of these days and check it out. Thanks!
This was my start into FPS games. Classic, addicting multiplayer. Absolutely fantastic - loved running around with the AT4 and one-shotting people or getting literal quad kills (4 kills with one bullet) with the G3 or M240. Insane.
I remember downloading 1942 Demo when it came out and I probably have more time in 1942, but man, the crazy multiplayer maps people made in Black Hawk Down resulted in some of the most fun I ever had in games back then.
Now if they can just remake Joint Operations… THAT is a freaking classic.
If THQ could just release Angel Falls and let someone finish the final touch to it.
If you play or seen the previous Delta Force titles before BHD, you realize how much of a step up it was, from the level design, music, voice acting and they finally animated the weapons reloading because the first and second game only had static reloads while in Land Warrior and TFD they made the weapons view 2d like in Doom and go offscreen when you reload
This game has me so hyped. DF BHD was the first video game I ever played. My dad bought it and let me play while he watched. This game and the first FarCry are core videogame memories for me.
mannnn.... the nostalgia. Wish so bad i could go back to these days.
This game was special for a multitude of reasons. The best thing about it was the multiplayer, and the custom maps. Me and my dad were both in a Clan for years after its hay-day. One of the cooler things that came out of it was the self policing in terms of cheating. As far as the PlayStation 2 port goes , it’s awful. Its frame-rate alone looks like something off the N64 , and this is a game where you really want a mouse and keyboard.
The multiplayer was INSANE back then. Wish you could've thrown in some clips of that. The creativity the map creators had reminded me of CS source. I remember whole arena maps constructed exclusively out of shipping containers. Was wildly popular back in the day too.
I loved this game. It was especially fun then I ran out of rifle ammo and had to switch to the pistol.
DF:BHD was my first experience with mission/map editors. I spent hundreds of hours making various scenarios, campaigns, maps etc, and then showing them and playing with my friends. Good times.
Thanks to the mission editor I know the game inside out. Which brings me to something you said about enemy AI. On its own, the AI is very simple. If enemy is detected, the AI agent just runs in the straight line until it gets in firing range and starts shooting. It took a lot of scripting for NovaLogic to make the game as immersive as it is!
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Love how eye relief is accurately shown where the optics' periphery are blurred and receded in prominence. Human eye focus artifacting is more than just blurred depth of field. That said, I did prefer when games don't zoom an entire screen when focusing in on a sight picture.
The original Delta Force is what got me started back in the day; played just about all of them. This is pure nostalgia man. Big Thanks for the trip down memory lane 👍
Really hope the Chinese publisher does this franchise some justice.
I remember buying this game and still have it in storage somewhere. DF games were all the rage before COD came out! America's Army was also the sheet back then.
BHD and Joint Ops Typhoon Rising were my first foray and addiction to online shooters. Thrashed them for years with my clan.
What was your clan name?
The water looked very good for 2003. Also the way particles lit up the night sky. It was less linear, because the original Delta Force games are even more "open". It's one of the first realistic franchises
Those days were something special. Played BHD to death. Then went onto Joint Operations. Brings me back to the clanbase days. Cool content. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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i played clanbase tkoth tournaments. i have bhd videos
The map editor for Delta Force games were so cool you could raise the ceiling so high you could fall for miles making two slides a quarter of a mile apart and shoot people from both slides, you could build two platforms a mile apart 5 mi up in the sky throw some boxes on the platforms and snipe from them it was so f****** cool
Oh my god it must be the first time I see a game recreate what it looks like to aim with a red dot sight with both eyes open, I’m amazed. (2:35)
I had been playing Delta Force: Xtreme 2 until about 3 years ago. The visuals weren't much better, but the multiplayer gameplay was so clean and challenging.
You should try Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising from NovaLogic, the makers of Delta Force. Joint Ops came out in 2004 but had 150 player servers and day/night cycle. That was a great game.
Old DF player here. Back in late 2002 I was buying PC parts to build a computer in anticipation to play R6: Raven Shield and DF: Black Hawk Down, I got both games by 2003 and found Black Hawk Down the more better game, not because of graphics or campaign level design, but the fun factor and the multiplayer was in my opinion superior. Indeed it was the multiplayer component that BHD really shone with some vicious CQB knife fights and firefights along with sniper duels at incredible ranges up to 1500 meters plus. If the devs for the remake were really smart, they should make a serious PvP multiplayer component with 8 vs 8 up to 32 vs 32 MP maps and sell it as a possible standalone DLC or include it with the campaign.
Ah the good old days of ventrilo and teamspeak. I remember playing this game non stop for a few years. Multiplayer was second to none in my opinion. Getting a headshot with a sniper rifle from far away is still a feeling unmatched by most fps games of today.
Grabbing a sniper and going more than 2km away to get insane long shots was so satisfying
In every game I play now I ask people if they've played Black hawk down
I miss simpler FPS like these.
It looks strikingly similar to Joint Operations. That game was a blast too
Same devs, NovaLogic.
Should come back and visit, for the most popular server you need to install Escalation too though.
Played on PC and Playstation 2. My high alumni earned the medal of honor during operation Gothic servant. Randal shurgart. They named the post office in my hometown in Newville pa after him
Sometimes when your teammate is injured a medevac black hawk comes and streatchers them away its great
Best game ever, I still play and we have around 40 to 50 peps in our server every night in RS Real Soldiers.
Wow I think I remember your squad. If you guys are the ones I remember, you were pretty damn good. But it would have been from JO:TR, our squad rarely played BHD. Petty Officer Third Class here, or PO3 for short lol
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This is Nostalgic. I really struggled with river raid mission back in the day because of the minefield. This game is putting emphasis more on the gameplay than it's visuals
Played it back in the day. One thing you're missing when talking about visuals is comparing it to it's predecessors. This was a huge improvement.
Yeah I remember booting this up with my dad for the first time and being super impressed that they had 3D rendered weapons instead of image cards
This could be ported to vr 🔥
Update the graphics and you're set to go
Really like how realistic the sights look when zooming in, wish other games would do this today.
Thank you so much for the nostalgic flash back. This was my first FPS, and I still think about it often
this video took me back... playing this a LOT when i was 10-11 and it's difficulty and open maps is probably what got me into milsim games in the future.. hell, i even remember trying and failing to learn source SDK with the plan to remake one of the maps in this for insurgency back when THAT was a mod for hl2
I was in hs when this came out. Nostalgia through the roof! It was amazing at the time. Thanks for posting!
I grew up with this game but then moved on to the massively larger Joint Ops, ran with the squad KillersForHire for years. Made some life long friend’s there.
brings back so many memories! i was hooked on the Delta Force series as a kid, played so many hours with my dad. Delta Force 2 and Black Hawk down had really fun COOP and PVP servers back then! PSG-1 on Black Hawk Down PVP was awesome! Both Delta Force 2 and Delta Force: Black Hawk Down are still available for purchase on Steam!
Man I played every last Novalogic Game my Favorite was Tachyon: The Fringe but I’m excited to see the new delta force game when it comes out
I went from NovaLogic's _F-16 Fighting Falcon,_ which I bought blind off the shelf 'cause it was there, to the _Delta Force_ demo included on that CD, then _Delta Force_ proper, _MiG-29 Fulcrum_ at some point, and then I found the _Delta Force Black Hawk Down_ demo on a CD in a gaming magazine, I think, and I spend most of my gaming time playing a mod of _Joint Operations_ I like to experiment in these days, but if there's a game I love more than DFBHD (with the _Team Sabre_ expansion), then I must've been neuralyzed, 'cause I know that game no longer.
I _love_ DFBHD(TS). Because of the mission editor, and because DFBHD(TS) is fairly easy to mod.
Making missions in the MEd is a bit tricky, and the learning curve is steep, but it's _so_ rewarding. Getting a helicopter to make that tricky landing is a slog for a while, but once you lock down exactly how stupid the helicopter AI is, you can work around it.
The machine guns (M249 SAW, M60, and the M240) in DFBHD(TS) do not ADS. I wanted to fix that. I learned how to mod sights onto the MGs. And then it went _insanely deeper._
DFBHD out of the box is good fun, if you can tolerate the little things that bother me about it. DFBHD(TS) is also good, even if it adds its own set of little things to tolerate. They call it 'the left-lean glitch,' 'cause 'the head should also tip left when leaning left glitch' is too wordy.
But beware the mission editor. The MEd _hates._ The MEd hates _you._ It'll do whatever you want it to, but only so it can do it wrong, and drive you insane. You can learn how to master the MEd, to corral its malicious caprices into enjoyable gameplay, but it will cost you much more of your cognition than you may feel is fair. The joy is that, once you've sacrificed enough of your brainspace mastering the MEd, you won't be able to understand how badly it's broken you!
The Claw of the MEdness! It _so_ divinely wounds! * unhinged giggling *
Playing user-made custom maps: if you don't add the /d tag to your shortcut target line, people, you're gonna have a bad time. Okay, you'll still have a goodish time, but you'll have a much better time if you add the /d tag to the shortcut target line.
I've come to terms with my love/hate relationship with NeverLogic games. There was so much potential in them. I feel like another year of development, and an additional year of debugging and updating would've made _Delta Force Black Hawk Down_ the best first-person shooter that ever existed. I love that potential, and it breaks my heart to see how it was unfulfilled.
And will _Delta Force Hawk Ops_ revive the franchise? Oh, I dare not hope.
I dare not hope, but I just might. Because NeverLogic!
Baldo! Good to see you still around man. I still remember your maps and mods. Its been a long long time lol.
Dont remember how it was in Delta Force but a random feature in Joint Operations I ever since want to see in more games is that if someone is hitting the grass at a distance, where the grass wasn't rendered anymore, the player model got a coating the same as the surrounding terrain colour.
A buddy and I were obsessed with the MP on the OG Xbox. It was so much fun.
Used to play the multiplayer on this and the team sabre expansion. Great times! So excited for the remake.
It was my favorite shooter. It grew into Joint Operations (mass multi player) which was awesome. It was even better with the international conflict mod which hosted weekly 100v100. The teams would 2 different countries for a few weeks with modded vehicles and maps to fit the fit. It was so much fun. I believe the group moved into arma 3.
this was my first FPS game i played as a kid. had so much fun on my Playstation 2 with this one
Oh man this was the first game I ever bought with my own money for PC. So many memories! I adored this game and I remember this was one of the few games that challenged me. I can't wait to see the remake! I had no idea it even existed until now!
This is one of the best FPSers of all time. It was super innovative and outclassed many AAA titles of the day.
the best thing about delta force games was how they included a complete map editor with every game.
Love your comment on the AI difficulty. Growing up playing early tactical shooters (Rainbow 6, the original PC version, Spec Ops Gold, and Ghost Recon) on PC. It seems like all the developers agreed to make the AI difficulty "normal" as today's challenging. It absolutely made completing task and missions so rewarding.
This is the game that made me buy my first ever gaming PC. Read the book by Bowden, watched the movie, and then I got this and played the campaign and scripted my own missions when I grew tired of the campaign. Probably why I now love Arma 3 so much. Really hope the remake does it justice.
People still play Joint Operations Typhoon Rising, a spiritual successor of Black Hawk Down.
Used to play this game on my PS2 with my brother. Shooting from the humvees was my favourite part. Childhood memories
I still play it time to time. When ever we had spare time from patrols and random tasks during OEF, we’d have whole scout platoons playing this game
This was my childhood... The first time I played with 64GB RAM which was lower than recomended but later on with 128GB RAM and finished it finally... I loved the game & the movie...
Loved this game growing up. Started playing it on my PS2 at seven years old, along with Finest Hour, Medal of Honor, etc. However, it was something about this game that felt gritty, and real. Probably in my top five shooters of all time.
As someone who loves playing early 2000s fps games, ill definitely be playing thisngame soon.
One game I advice you to take a look at, but know that you can no longer experience to its best, Joint operations: Typhoon Rising. It was the culmination of the Delta force series by Novalogic. It had massive battles. 150 player servers. Two factions, and with an expansion it brought Tanks and Apaches to the vehicle list.
Sometimes battles would last for hours. It was insane, but didn't have the polish that other games of the time had, Battlefield 2. COD4 on the horizon also.
We still play JOTR, but there are no official servers anymore. On a normal night there is maybe 25-35 players on the same server, sometimes less sometimes more, even full 64 a few times this year.
Been playing the Delta Force games since the first two in the early 90s, BHD was a step above all of them really in graphics, while the others had an even bigger scale, BHD's multiplayer was still alive until 2009 or so when it was the last time I played, one thing that always annoyed me was the slow robotic reload animations, on the expansion Team Sabre the few new guns dont have it, I guess Novalogic was always a bit limited on resources but still did a few good games among all the repeated releases they've done
I loved this game so much. With Hawk Ops coming out I've been down nostalgia road with this.
I used to play this game in co-op with my neighbor when we were kids. He’s not a biger gamer but when hawk ops was announced he sent me the trailer before i could send it to him (i was watching the showcase live)
We used to also love the LAN pvp modes as well. There was one map with high towers/builds and we loved seting satchel charges on the steps up lol.
We’re both really excited for the remake tbh. Earlier this year we replayed the entire halo franchises campaign together to take a trip down memory lane. We live in different states but we still hop on xbox as a way to hang out from far away. He almost exclusively plays military shooters aside from a few other games like red dead, gta, the last of us, and state of decay 2 (all shooters still lol) and im a big rpg guy but I definitely hit him up every time a shooter itch comes up or a game he actually wants to play comes out.
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OH my god! The nostalgia hit hard! I played the hell out of this game in High School!
I used to play the map editor for hours, i learn the triggers mechanics thank to this game
This was my first multiplayer game, played it everyday after school
Imagine DF: Hawk Ops also had a separated application Mission Editor. This could be great.
This game has so many memories for me. Had it on the original Xbox and played it with my brothers ALL the time.
this is my fav game hands down. the multiplayer was so good
I've always loved Black Hawk Down (the movie) and this game was a source of pure joy when I was a wee lad. Now it's a source of pure nostalgia. :)
I loved this game so much back in the day. Played HOURS online. The custom maps were so good. Was in a clan called 3rdXC for about 5 years probably.
I played it back in the day, and still love it! it has that realistic atmosphere that it was really rare at the time!
Damn, such good memories. Used to play it with my dad, we used to play it in turns, great times. Miss ya dad! If they remake this, the child in me is gonna lose it in the best way possible 💌
I was such a good sniper in that game that people wouldn’t join my server if they saw I was hosting it. Crazy memories in that game.
I just remember civilian killed me when I was low health. He did it with rock.
I remember making custom maps with large amounts of those "stay away" grandpas chasing you through a prison. Once I killed a hundred of them at once with an AT4 and my PC was stuck for like one minute calculating this explosion.
And the enemies have their weapons grown into their hands, they die if you shoot the AK.
@@voyagerdeepspaceexploratio5023 didnt you get penalty of klling civillians? because I remember you got mission failed if you killed a lot civs. Correct me if I am wrong
I played Delta Force: Land Warrior. You could create your own maps and throw yetis around the map.
I played Delta Force: BHD splitscreen on the playstation (2, probably) with a friend. 1v1 - sometimes we'd do the missions in coop.
And man, it's insane - I still remember all the maps and they were great.
What I struggled with most back in the day was the visuals, since we had this low res TV monitor with very noticeable horizontal lines.
Those are memories that you can't really make anymore these days. Good times.
I'm in my 30s now...
And back when I was 10-11ish, my dad got it for our family computer he recently got and used it as like a fun way to teach me and my brother different military tactics. Mostly how to snipe and stay hidden. So once my brother got a computer my dad would start up Lan games between me and my brother just to see who could win in sniper battles.....those are honestly some of my best memories