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Players15 ratings
51/100
Metacritic8 critic reviews
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71/100
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3.38/5
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77% positive181 reviews
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Windows
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2002 · Standalone expansion · Zombie Studios · First-person shooter · Shooter

Delta Force: Task Force Dagger

Standalone expansion

As the US army's elite special operations soldiers you are the most potent 'smart weapon' known to man. You are the 'tip of the spear' for covert operations around the world — you are the first line of attack. Nothing stands in your way. From the war torn streets of Somalia you have been re-deployed to take out targets in Colombia and Iran. As the US military's preemptive strike force you must work with your team to get the job done.

Released
27 June 2002
Platforms
Windows
Genres
First-person shooterShooterTactical
Developers
Zombie Studios
Publishers
—
Modes
Co-opMultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
First person
Themes
ActionWarfare
Country
United States
Age ratings
USK 16ESRB TCLASS_IND 16
Languages
English
Time to beat
5hmain story8hcompletionist

About

Delta Force: Task Force Dagger is a 2002 first-person shooter video game developed by Zombie Studios and published by NovaLogic for Microsoft Windows. It is a standalone expansion pack to Delta Force: Land Warrior. It is set in Afghanistan in 2002 after United States invasion of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in 2001.

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As the US army's elite special operations soldiers you are the most potent 'smart weapon' known to man. You are the 'tip of the spear' for covert operations around the world — you are the first line of attack. Nothing stands in your way. From the war torn streets of Somalia you have been re-deployed to take out targets in Colombia and Iran. As the US military's preemptive strike force you must work with your team to get the job done.

Players say

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Gameplay

Task Force Dagger is based on the same engine as the previous Delta Force title, Land Warrior, and retains all of its gameplay mechanics. The largest difference is that the player can now choose to control a character from either one of ten available special operation units, including SEAL Team Six, the Green Berets and the Special Air Service. All of these have individual advantages and disadvantages, such as some operatives being formidable snipers while others are able to sustain larger amounts of damage. However, mechanically these factions are identical to the different playable Delta Force operatives available in Land Warrior. Unlike the earlier games, Task Force Dagger usually sends the player on missions alone, without any support from AI-controlled friendly soldiers.

Like all earlier Delta Force titles, Task Force Dagger has a larger focus on realism than is common in the first person shooter genre. Most of the gameplay takes place in large outdoor environments with combat distances of up to several hundred meters, and bullet ballistics have to be taken into account when aiming at distant targets. Typically for the series, characters usually die from a single hit. Like Land Warrior, Task Force Dagger also prominently features combat in narrow tunnels.

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.

Daniel Morris of PC Gamer noted the dull AI and dated graphics, and ended his review by stating, "But I just don't understand how you can plop down the money for Task Force Dagger when there are so many better games in this niche of the genre."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows27 June 2002North America · Europe 27 June 2002

Editions and related releases

Part of
Delta Force: Land Warrior
Follows
Delta Force: Land Warrior
Standalone expansion of
Delta Force: Land Warrior

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