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Players7 ratings: 82/100
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Steam

2004 · First-person shooter · Shooter

Joint Operations: Escalation

Joint Operations is a First Person Shooter, totally focused on online multiplayer mode. The game is set in Indonesia in an hypothetic near future, where a national separatist movement (Rebels) fight against the international pacification force (Joint Operations), and features many tropical locations, characterized by jungle, marshes and archipelagos.

Released: 15 June 2004
Platforms: Windows
Genres: First-person shooter Shooter Tactical
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Co-op Multiplayer
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Warfare
Country: United States
Age ratings: PEGI 16 ESRB T
Composers: Russell Brower

About

Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising is a 2004 first-person shooter computer game from Novalogic that focuses almost entirely on its expansive online multiplayer mode. Set in Indonesia in the near future, Joint Operations takes the player to a country on the verge of disintegration. Regional independence movements have acquired advanced weaponry as the nation's military splits into competing factions. Escalating violence threatens innocent civilians and Western economic interests. Developed using the Black Hawk Down

engine, Joint Operations promises superior rendering technology and an enhanced 3rd generation multiplayer experience.

Keywords

modern warfare
helicopter
vehicular combat
military
steam
vehicle combat
modern military
bink video
melee
cumulative team respawn limit
novaworld

Media

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Gameplay

Although the game contains a series of single player training missions and operations accessible under the main page option "Missions", most players utilize the game's multiplayer option to compete online under the main page option "Novaworld" which connects the player to Novalogic's online gaming environment, Novaworld. Each Joint Operations server at Novaworld has the potential to hold up to 150 players, based on server bandwidth capacity, making the game a Massive Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter. Although a number of these servers are run by Novalogic, anyone with a PC and sufficient internet bandwidth can host a server, with a player limit of up to 64 people. Many independent servers exist, hosted by individuals or groups of players who form clans.

In the multiplayer setting, the game has five modes, which dictate how gameplay proceeds on any given map:

Reception

Typhoon Rising received "favorable" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.

Joint Operations was a runner-up for Computer Games Magazine's 2004 "Best Multiplayer" award, which ultimately went to Unreal Tournament 2004. During the 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Typhoon Rising for "Computer First-Person Action Game of the Year", which was ultimately awarded to Half-Life 2.