Others say...

"Nice Concept but Issues with Implementation"
Joint Task Force lets you control tanks, infantry, harriers in more in a variety of battlefield situations.

The graphics are reasonably good here. Trees get knocked over when you roll over them in your tank, snow falls down onto the dusted battlefield, flags flutter in the breeze. Clicking on a unit shows you circles around them indicating the range of the various weapons the unit holds. It makes strategizing your next move relatively easy.

You can zoom in and out with great ease, and either do map control on your own or set the camera to follow a group. You have a few formations your units can move in, and infantry can 'go prone' if there's no cover around. There are numerous vehicles lying around - military and civilian - that you can hop into and drive.

You can skirmish in random setups with factions, maps and units that you want to practice with, and you can do full campaigns where you take on pre-set objectives. There's also online gameplay if you want to take on other humans.

There are "heroes" in this game which inspire your troops and order in new weapons and items. Each also has special skills - for example a weapons hero might let you repair vehicles more readily. Reinforcements get dropped off via helicopter and you actually get to choose up to X units that "fit" in that helicopter.

On our system the units move quickly and smoothly - the problem lies with the lack of strategy needed - but the high level of micromanagement necessary. Normally you can just plow ahead at the enemy forces, but every unit needs continual reminders of what they are supposed to be doing. There isn't a lot of cover or other types of advantages on many maps, meaning it ends up being a mass-up-and-go assault.

You can capture flags (i.e. territory) which get you more cash, and airstrips to be able to drop heavier vehicles.

I do have to comment that the little infantry look rather silly when they get shot - they go flying what seems to be miles. They have some scale issues here.

The sound is reasonable enough - an epic sounding instrumental, voices that answer your commands. I'm not sure what more you'd really want from this type of strategy game. On cut scenes, voices often don't sync up with the people, though. During campaign play you sometimes get little 'news videos' of what is going on in your world.

You're not building up bases here, so your options are usually not defensive - instead, you're building your mobile attack force to wipe out your enemy. Units get experience as they go, but damage is 'realistic' so unless you're skilled you often get your units slaughtered before they have that opportunity.

I compare this most with the original Command & Conquer, without the base aspect. You could consider this therefore worse - or you could say it's a better version because of the improved graphics. Part of the problem is that even starting the first campaign on normal difficulty (choosing from normal or hard) you tend to get slaughtered quickly unless you've been playing these things for a while. Even experienced gamers will find even the starting missions challenging.

So a nice concept but with some reality issues and also a poor scaling of difficulty if they want this playable by the average gamer.

"Horrible Horrible Game, worst $50 I ever spent!"
I just bought this game hoping for an excellent strategy game with great graphics. Well, is it a great strategy game? I don't know as on my PC (twice the system the game calls for) the game is SO slow as to be unplayable! It runs almost in reverse, that is how slow it is! I have it down to the lowest 'acceptable' resolution for me (1024 x 768) and it is impossible to control anybody or anything. My armies get their butts whupped as I am trying to move around, even SCROLLING is horrible!! I would not waste $5 on this game even in a bargain bin. I don't think this was even play-tested (maybe on $4000 alienware?) but do not waste your money on this. I should have waited but this one looked so good. Oh well, live and learn!

"Nice effects, horrible realism"
If you like nice graphics and cool effects - go for it. If you are looking for realism, well don't. Since when does an Abrams need three hits to crack a BMP? And since when does an Abrams tank shoot only as far as city block is long?
If you want the 'real thing' stick to the old 'Close Combat' series.

"a must have for RTS game fan"
This is a must have game for RTS fans it has an amazing graphics and compared to other RTS game that you could finish by collecting as much resources and getting gazillion troops and doing a kamikazi attack, on this game those tactics won't cut it. you actually need to think here in where to position your men and vehicles and the JTF community is topnotch no snobs and screaming noob on your face they're helpfull and that goes to the developers aswell (they actually read the forum).

The only reason i gave the game 4 stars is there's a few thing that needs to be ironed out in the game and a few addition options needed but i suppose not every game is perfect.

anyway if you decide to get this game i'll see u online "Multiplayer"
(CMDR Tacoshell)

"Slow but very interesting"
I bought this game a few days ago and so far, It's been really interesting. I am a huge fan of C&C games and this one is quite close but a bit more realistic. You actually run out of amo and you need to call in supplies which ads to the "excitment" of the game.

Go for it... It's a good game.

Ramy