Conflict: Desert Storm

Basically you control 4 soldiers through various missions, kind of like SOCOM I guess but I never played SOCOM. I loved this when I was a kid because it was like playing with the toy army men. You can put each of your team where you want and tell them what to do, etc and you can control each of them yourself. You can get pretty methodical with it and the level design accommodates for the control you have. There are a lot of open levels that allow you to choose which objectives to do and there are many situations that will depend on the positioning of your men. I think it has co-op but I always played by myself. It's a bit clunky by today's standards but I'd say pick it up for $2. The second one is great too. Not a fan of Vietnam and I haven't played Global Terror but I highly recommend the Desert Storm series.

Damn, did I play this game often. The GOG version is just nice. Was a must-have for me. If only they were able to add two things: Win 10 support (on Win 10 it has really nasty geometry-bugs, which make your character »hang« at certain parts of the map) and wide screen support. Then it'd be just awesome.

Characters and NPCs float when they walk onto certain spots and will get stuck if went too far

First set the in-game resolution to the highest possible through the launcher. Make sure 32-bit colors are enabled and launch the game once to populate the resolution settings. Use regedit to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Pivotal Games\Conflict Desert Storm\Device Settings and experiment with the resolution index key by changing the decimal, not the hexadecimal, value to a higher number than the one it is currently set to. Logic dictates the higher number will be for a higher resolution. Repeat until the number is matching your desktop resolution. For fixing the broken physics and collision issues due to the FPS being too fast, use dgVoodoo 2 to fix Vsync: github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases/download/v2.86.1/dgVoodoo2_86_1.zip Copy D3D8.DLL from \MS\x86\ to your install folder. Set monitor's refresh rate to 60 or 120 Hz. Please use these instructions to play the game in an incredible way you have never experienced before.

This is one of those games that really clung to me. It never stood out. It never came close to it. But this was actually its strongest point. It was simply fun, playable, and loads of fun co-op. I drank much Pitch Black to this game, and I even named a bunch of kobolds in a D&D game I was playing after the cast. In fact, Foley, Bradley, Jones and Conners have shown themselves repeatedly in various things I've made or worked on, without me even realizing where they came from. This was just one of those games that made me happy to play. I rented it three times but never found it not for rent...and unfortunately, the sequels were... just not as fun. I finally bought it, just to own it. Either way, this is a game that at least for me, deserves a spot here far more then some other 'classic' titles.