What can you tell us about new weapon features? Will there be whole new ways of playing SWAT3 you think by using some new weapons or their features?

Using the new weapon features in the game such as suppressed weapons and magnified optics opens the door for people's tactical creativity. Not sure how people will play the game using the new gun features. Certainly the Beta C mags which hold 100 rounds each are a tremendous asset to a team, though by loading someone down with the Beta mags, it will affect their overall speed. Just like in a real SWAT call-out, it will be interesting to see how people decide to approach a situation. One of the huge strengths of our game is that it allows the player to be as creative as possible in dealing with a situation, both in pre-assault briefing as well as dealing with changing circumstances during game play.

To be a bit clearer: Covert Ops IS a mod and installs to the mod directory. It also comes with its own .exe and all the supporting data necessary to run stand-alone. If you run the Covert Ops executable, all you will get is the Covert Ops mod to play. If you run Urban Operations, you will see the Covert Ops mod available as an optional mod that you can choose to activate or not activate.

There is no optional choice about it. Installing Covert Ops installs the mod.
--Greg

Until now all tactical FPS have done quite a good job with portraying the individual soldier's role in combat, and for games with small team sizes and close quarters such as SWAT 3 and RougeSpear, we should expect nothing more. But for tactical FPS games with greater geographical areas, larger team size and spanning over a larger time frame, such as Delta Force 2 and the upcoming Private Wars, one could not avoid wanting to take the genre one step further. This would be done, according to the author, by implementing a command system which would be designed in such a way that it will give the game a more realistic feel to it and even more important, putting focus on the military team feeling.

A very important point for IGI is how designers will approach the huge expanses of land, how do they plan to utilise it so that the gameplay still flows when you are miles away from the enemy base?: “Firstly we start you relatively close to a base, however, as in real life, a base complex can be spread out over a large area, with a permeter that must be broken, guards that need to be avoided, power facilities that need to be taken out, weapon caches to be raided - you're behind enemy lines and thinking on your feet for a lot of the game so you have to use whatever's close to hand. Since the base consists of different encounters, the player has total control over how he aproaches a security post say, from which angle, whether you charge the main gate with all guns blazing, whether you sneak around it, using the binoculars to spot for a weak point or whether you avoids it altogether and move onto the next encounter.”

Although Urban Operations is significantly better than most expansion packs on the market, it's far from perfect. First, although Urban Operations claims the AI has been improved, I have yet to see any real evidence of this, except in the "Defend" mode of play. As I mentioned earlier, terrorists are not hesitant to throw a fragmentation grenade your way, but they only do so in the "Defend" mode. Why can't they do this during the campaigns? Other than "Defend," the terrorists in the campaigns do not react any better than they did in Rogue Spear. Second, the single-player aspect of the game is simply too short. With only 5 new missions (10 if you do not own the original Rainbow Six), it's very easy to finish both of the mini-campaigns in a few hours.

The USSR's first fire support helicopter, the Mi-24 entered service in the late 1960's. The helicopter was used extensively in the Afghanistan War. The Mi-24 is a close counterpart to the American AH-64 Apache, but unlike this and other Western assault helicopters it is also capable of transporting up to eight troops.

The developers are going to give players the freedom to complete their missions in a variety of ways. "There is a lot of things possible in Flash Point, and I am confident people will explore many new ways to complete our missions that we've never even thought were possible," Spanel confided. "Will there be more firing or thinking? I don't know. I'm seeing some people play with more action, while others choose cleverness instead of fire-power. But if you don't use your head, someone else will use it... as a target.

Does IGI feature deformable buildings - sadly no. We don't support real time bolean operations in our object format.

But you can be hiding in a wooden building, and the enemy characters riddle it with 762 calibre bullets, the bullets punch through, (we're soon putting in some new dust effects), breaking objects like PC's, shattering glass bottles, exploding barrels, all while they're trying to hit you.

Some vehicles have weapon mounts which you can use. We're aiming to include helicopter insertions and extractions, with hot LZ's - you'll have to take out enemy gun emplacements on your way in.

A mere three months after the release of Urban Operations, the mission pack for Rogue Spear, fans of the Rainbow Six line will get another treat. That treat was recently revealed at E3, and is formally known as (take a deep breath): Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Operations Essentials. Basically, this is another mission pack for Rogue Spear, except that the difference lies in the capability of Covert Ops to be played without Rogue Spear. This stand-alone product, will be offered as a totally unique game. And as we'll see, the unique and different focus of this multimedia software will probably attract new players to the Rainbow Six franchise.

Furthermore, the second CD (on which the nine new levels are contained) was developed by Zombie Interactive, the makers of the Spec Ops series of games. Zombie created the majority of these nine new maps, while Red Storm contributed just a few of the new maps. This represents only the second time Red Storm has had its proprietary map-making tools outsourced for use by other developers.

Weapon selection is quite varied and includes a knife, submachine gun, rocket launcher and flame-thrower (it is an alternate universe after all). For players who like sniping, there is a whole stage designed to let Red sneak around and pick off enemies at a distance. There are also grenades and explosives for the demolitions expert inside us all.

The missions themselves are well laid out, if a tad linear. A briefing, complete with 3D layout of the area Red will be visiting, is given by Captain Potter, whose voice is the most entertaining in the game. Each level consists of a series of objectives, most of which must be completed in order. However, there is often more than one way to finish a task. For example, in the second level a player can sneak into the Russian rocket base by climbing over the mountains, walking through a tiny valley, or disabling the electric fence's generator and then cutting through it with bolt cutters.

The M-939 tactical truck is a five-ton capacity, six-wheel drive cargo truck used for transportation of all types of supplies. The M-939 series comes in six body styles: cargo, dump, wrecker, van and long wheel base cargo. Its central tire inflation system enables the crew to increase or decrease the air pressure in the tires to improve mobility on or off roads. It can tow 21,000 pounds.

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Hidden & Dangerous on the Dreamcast is the way in which the developers have been able to make so many different commands accessible via the standard control pad. Keyboard support has been confirmed and there's a chance that support for Sega's mouse will also be included but neither of these will be strictly necessary thanks to some ingenious work on behalf of Illusion Softworks. There are around twenty different controls that can be used in-game, many of which require you to press two buttons simultaneously - this can be tricky to begin with but with practice, actually becomes more intuitive than having to navigate your way around an entire keyboard.

Operation Bravo Details:
Overall, the feedback we received from the Spec Ops fans was that while the game was a lot of fun in single player, it's greatest potential was multiplayer. But in Spec Ops 2, all of the maps were too big for a good multiplayer match. No one wants to run to the battlefield for 45 seconds, just to get shot by a sniper and do the whole thing all over again. The Operation Bravo Free Add-On is specifically designed to enhance a player's multiplayer experience. Every mission was engineered with that in mind.

What people will be getting, improved AI/Path Finding, 25 new missions, new multiplayer games, better multiplayer code, with no copy protection, so pass it on to all your friends!

-Grant Collier, Producer

Missions range from spying and reconnaissance to assassination and sabotage, and Jones always begins them with barely any weapons. You'll have to procure most of the weapons and items in each mission by killing enemy soldiers, and as such, most of the arsenal in I'm Going In is based on weaponry from the Warsaw Pact. Although Innerloop has finalized only 12 of the weapons in the game, we know that at least eight more are scheduled to be included in I'm Going In. Currently the list includes Soviet weapons like the Kalashnikov AK-47 and Dragunov, Spas 12, T80 .556, Uzi, H&K MP5SD, Browning M2HB, M16A2, Pancor "Jackhammer" auto shotgun, Glock 17, Desert Eagle, Colt Anaconda, as well as several high-powered arms like the LAW 18, proximity mines, and frag grenades.

There are many different ways to play Hidden & Dangerous given that at any one time you'll have four very different soldiers under your control. The first time you play you'll be tempted to think of Hidden & Dangerous as a first-person shooter, tooling up a member of the squad and charging headlong into battle. A couple of minutes and one fatal injury later you'll realise your mistake and take a look at the all-important mission map. You see, there's plenty of action to be enjoyed in H&D, particularly with the ability to switch between first and third-person views while using any of the 15 or so weapons in the game. To be successful though, against what are almost always overwhelming odds you need a plan, plain and simple.

Devil's Bridge is the nip and tuck facelift version of Hidden and Dangerous. The weapon views in each package are different, with the original's views being sort of "down the line of sight," whereas Devil's Bridge's view is basically the normal first person perspective shifted off to the side and lowered. Devil's Bridge has slightly more enhanced graphics, but the frame rate is quite diabolical in some situations. Even on my system, which far surpasses the minimum requirements, I was unable to run the game in 1024 x 768 x 32 bit. The best I could run it in was 1024 x 768 x 16 bit, so what sort of super computer you need for this game is beyond me. However, this problem was not apparent in Hidden and Dangerous where the graphics are smooth and no reduction in frame rate was experienced. All this said, Hidden and Dangerous and Devil's Bridge have graphics which are very realistic. So realistic in fact that when it snows in certain campaigns, you sit there shivering... I am not joking! The weather effects are, in my mind, second to none. From the shortened visibility caused by snow blizzards to the eye squinting darkness of a night mission in the midst of a thunderstorm, it's all there, perfectly reproduced for you to relish.

Issuing orders to your comrades in Hidden & Dangerous couldn't be easier. You have a choice of either telling them what to do on the fly - by shouting at them in the game - as long as they're close enough to hear you, or giving them instructions via the map screen. The map screen is often used for planning more elaborate manoeuvres that require the synchronised movement of more than one soldier whereas in-game orders cover the basics such as "Follow me" and "Stay". The inclusion of "Sit" and "Fetch" commands seems unlikley though. Of course you also have the option of switching from one character to another and doing all of the hard work yourself. Although this is great fun and perhaps a little more rewarding it's unlikely you'll be able to progress through much of the game using this technique alone.

Okay the picture above shows entry. I recommend you watch this area carefully. This is important because you could be flanked by terrorist in the bathroom right next to the door. I believe you could breach the bathroom because they come out anyways when they see you. When you enter make sure you see what position your in. Are there a lot of terrorist in the area? If so maybe the back door is the best. Remember You do not have to follow the mission plan all the time for recruit. Make sure that the trigger man is dead upon entry.