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494Jorge ArreolaBlack Hawk Down: Team Sabre is a tactical action game based on the popular console franchise. It manages to create a very entertaining mobile gaming experience, that is if you don’t mind tactical strategy over balls-out shoot-outs.
It’s basically a point and click game in which you control members of the elite Delta Force on 12 missions in locales such as the deserts of Iran and the jungles of Colombia. Missions vary from saving hostages, destroying key enemy facilities and, of course, annihilating enemy forces.
Your unit consists of three commandos who each have their own unique abilities. There’s the Engineer who is weaponless but has the ability to cure team members and diffuse land mines as well as call in air raids to destroy facilities in hard to reach locations. The Sniper is able to shoot from far away and can scan the entire area so that you can see which path is the best to take, or where enemies are hiding. The Rifleman has tougher armor, more ammunition, and a knife for close encounters.
The game balances play to where each member of your unit is essential to the success of the mission. If one is lost, you’ll have a hard time getting by. For example, the engineer is the only one who can spot and diffuse land mines so if you lose him, your remaining soldiers can recklessly walk into mines and get killed. Or if you lose the sniper, you will lose the ability to scope out the area and get ambushed. This sense of teamwork really adds a great deal of strategy to the game that I thought was absolutely cool.
However, in case you’re not too big on the tactical part, the game also provides a few straight shooting levels with the use of a Helicopter. As it flies around, you can fire in many directions, destroying tanks and bad guys. These levels though were rather lame when compared to the land missions because all you do is control the aim of the guns and not the helicopter. There isn’t much here but these missions do add some variety overall.
Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre takes an average of about fifteen minutes to complete each level with the exception of the Helicopter stages so there’s a good amount of playtime. I do wish there were a few more levels or at least a map creator option. That would have been awesome but nevertheless it has wonderful controls, detailed graphics and well-balanced strategy that all adds up to a title you shouldn’t miss if you get the chance.