Conflict: Denied Ops review PC

Conflict: Denied Ops is the latest in the Conflict series, which has struggled recently to keep up with the high standards set by some of its rivals. Denied Ops though has reinvented the series somewhat - it's transformed into a first person shooter from a third person view, and instead of a squad to control you'll switch between just two characters. Even so, Denied Ops hasn't been well-received critically on the consoles - will it play better on the PC? Find out all about the game and what we think of it in our full review.
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Conflict: Denied Ops review for the PC

The once-average Conflict series has been in decline for some time now. In an attempt to arrest the slide, Denied Ops is not so much a back-to-basics approach as a completely different genre. Gone is the third person view; gone is the fourperson squad, replaced by a first person shooter with a mere brace of interchangeable characters, the risibly corny Lang and Graves, charged with saving the world from non-Americans in a plot that barely does justice to the word impenetrable.

It does at least enable the pair to rack up some air miles though, with their initially uneasy alliance taking them to a variety of generic global hotspots, where they shout at each other, swear quite a lot, and kill hundreds of people, rookie Lang via a balls-out macho approach, and wizened veteran Graves though a combination of stealth and gadgetry.

Essentially the game equivalent of a buddy-movie, if it actually was a film it would be shown on a Wednesday on Channel five at 9pm, probably star Steven Seagal, and be introduced with a swathe of irony by a painfully smug continuity announcer. An all-out action romp, at its heart it's essentially a love story, as the deadly duo put their differences behind them and learn to respect each other through the medium of relentless killing, their relationship thawing as the body count rises, with the realisation that they may not like each other, but by Christ they need each other. Ok, so it's not exactly The Piano.