The main drawback is that the AI is weak, in my opinion. The bad guys don't react particularly well when you start sniping their buddies. Rather, most of them tend to assume threatening postures but otherwise just stand around waiting to join the ranks of the worm feeders. Others will run around a bit and shout, but there is no real method to their madness. Again, they tend to be easy pickings.

Related to the weak AI is the fact that the bad guys are rather poor marksmen. My typical tactic playing through many missions was to find a suitable vantage point from which to engage at long range, reasonably confident that the return fire would be pretty inaccurate and not particularly threatening. Of course, if you start getting into closer quarters, their aim tends to improve just a bit.

The bad AI also applies to fellow team members. Alpha and Charlie teams (2 men each) were very poor about trying to be stealthy, and were wont to charge in with guns blazing only to find themselves promptly deposited in body bags. The net result is that the player (the one-man Bravo team) has to fulfill most mission requirements on his own.

I also disliked the fact that the bad guys were a little to easy to kill. Simply grazing one on the foot is enough for a KIA. This tends to cut both ways though, because the good guys also die with only one or at most two hits. On a related note, bullets don't penetrate soft objects like tents (but thankfully do break windows). Just a tad unrealistic.

On the plus side, the vast terrain areas allow a great freedom of movement and maneuver. Although there are preprogrammed mission plans for each level, the player is free to disregard them and "ad lib" as much as desired. This permits a fairly high degree of replayability.

I thought the graphics were decent but not great. The "night vision" effects are fairly neat, if not entirely realistic. The selection of weapons is not huge, but appropriate. The player's arsenal does not resemble that of a typical "shooter," but is still generous, consisting of a knife, sidearm, main armament (usually a rifle or machine gun), grenades, laser designator, and maybe a demo charge or LAW.

Although there are plenty of mission levels, each with its own imaginative story line, they all tend to feel the same during play. They all involve single-handedly (after you teammates get themselves wasted) killing several dozen terrorists, and occasionally rescuing a hostage, destroying a convoy, knocking out a radar site, etc.

Overall, this is an enjoyable game, and one which I will probably play again in the future. It's not all it could be, for the reasons described above... thus the sequels, which I will review separately.

"only 5 'cause 10 ain't listed"
Simply an awesome game. ... . I normally are not a computer/game junkie. But with this game there is an exception. Graphics, awesome: Realism, awesome: Sound, awesome: Weapons, awesome: Do I really have to say more. Why are you reading my review when you could be bying this dirt cheap. Well worth your money.

"SIMPLE THE BEST--*Gen.Aubric.MSS"
This is JUST PLAIN AND SIMPLY THE BEST. I've played over and over. It's really awesome over the internet when playin with other ppl. It has everthing, great graphics, to replay value. It's very realistic and FUN! I love it! It's very much worth only $19.99. You'll be amazed at the quality and how much you'll play it. I personally own over thirty games. Out of these this is my second fav. after Gettysburg. This is certainly a game that ever true gamer should own.

"SIMPLE THE BEST--*Gen.Aubric.MSS"
This is JUST PLAIN AND SIMPLY THE BEST. I've played over and over. It's really awesom over the internet, playin with other ppl. It has everthing, great graphics, to replay value. It's very realistic and FUN! I love it! It's very much worth only $19.99. You'll be amazed at the quality and how much you'll play it. I personally own over thirty games. Out of these this is my second fav. after Gettysburg. This is certainly a game that ever true gamer should own.

"A Great Game"
DeltaForce is the best action game i have ever played.The missions are incredible and when your done with them (which will take a long time) you can go on and play online against other people.This game really deserves five stars.