AceGamez writes: "In general, gamers are a fairly liberal bunch. They tend to be distrustful of authority and enjoy games where you're encouraged to rebel against the status quo. I find it strange that developers think games about shooting terrorists would go down well in such an industry.
From a business point of view, I suppose it makes sense - Counter-Strike is still three times more popular than oxygen and the constant barrage of Tom Clancy games never seem to be out of the Top 10. There is, however, a difference between some breezy escapist military fantasy and a bizarrely xenophobic attempt to romanticise the current war on terror. It is unfortunate then that Terrorist Takedown 2 falls neatly into the latter category."
Out of Eight writes: "Remember that whole Bin Laden thing? Yeah, me neither. But the one thing it did do was put a new face on the Enemy of America: replacing the Nazis of games past is the generic Middle Eastern terrorist. Ah yes, those wacky terrorists with their wacky AK-47s and wacky car bombs. Somebody has to take down those terrorists, and that's the premise behind the appropriately-named Terrorist Takedown 2. Did you even know there was a Terrorist Takedown 1? This time around plays quite differently than before: a more traditional first person shooter rather than being restricted to vehicles or turrets. At least that's what I can gather from reading some reviews, since I certainly did not play the original when it came out almost four years ago. This is another one of those F.E.A.R.-like Jupiter EX engine games, and it seems that City Interactive wants to milk every penny out of their purchased license (see Code of Honor 2)."
The Good:
+Varied weaponry
+In-game multiplayer browser
The Not So Good:
-Very difficult on normal settings
-Dumb heavily scripted AI
-Short single player campaign
-Standard multiplayer options with poorly placed spawn points and only three maps
-Mediocre voice acting
Eurogamer writes: "Not, sadly, an adventure game starring Godzilla's infamous avian foe, but that's not to say that this Rhodan can't satisfy the urge for pulp sci-fi fun. It's based on a massively popular series of German SF novels following Perry Rhodan, a Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon/John Carter of Mars figure whose encounter with aliens on the moon fast-forwards the human race into the space age and leaves him with a "cell activator" which makes him pretty much immortal."
