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Rogue Spear: Urban Ops - Korean Missions
(c) KAMA Digital Entertinment & REDSTORM

iSO, released by ENDREAMZ 05-25-00. nfo

I live for Rainbow Six & Tom Clancy. If I wanted to be someone in this world, it would be John Clark.

Gosh, longway?      Scary long hallway...

Thats enuff for my interest of the game etc related, so how good is this Korean Missions anyway?
It is good, very good.

Large room     Large!

The iSO release was made by unknown group called ENDREAMZ and it was 38x15mb. Unrar, and burn the .bin with cdrwin etc and youre done, no problems there, the guys released it just perfect.

big diningroom    Drinks on me!

Installation

This was interesting, I already had Rogue Spear with Rogue Spea: Urban Ops installed in my drive, so I backupped my own mods & savegames and begun installing korea missions. Well the installer did not ask me anything except where to place the shortcut of this title and went to install the game "over" to my old Rogue Spear dir, hum I thought goodbye for RS + stuff... Well, seems that the Korean Missions is just basic MOD and nothing more fancy than that. I was immediately thinking that boy, would it be much more smoother to release this as 'addon' with only by zipping up the mods/korean_missions dir :) anyhow to make the story short, Korean Missions work beautifully along with my old RS: UO installation!

Lot of glass       nice gate opening

What do we get for our money?
(muhaha, for our download that is:)

You get 2 missions. 1 extra weapon. Two large missions & one weapon seems not too much, but when you think that this is KOREAN release, the korean people are buing URBAN OPS not any 2mission pack. Oh yeah there is 2 more operatives too, but basically... err its same to me who do I lookalike. The funny part is that the mission orders, Clark, Sweeney and extra informant speech is on KOREAN language! The normal text is of course english, but boy it is funny to listen the korean John Clark ;)
The two extra operatives are Kim, Jae-ho assault and Lee, Yoon-jung sniper.
New weapon is K-2 assault rifle with safe, single shot, three round bursts and full auto modes to choose.
The missions:

Scarlet Wheel - A group of korean mafia has seized the city hall subway station in Seoul and are                              threatening to kill the hostages.
This is big map, first off when you enter the subway hall you notice how extremely long it is, this is for my experience the longest "indoor" map of Rainbow Six series, with CAR-15 zoom you barely can drop a terrorist from the other end of the subway station, yes its that looong! Very nice sniper map. The level is pretty nicely made, even tho I first thought the korean version suck becuause its kind of... err dunno but it doesnt. There are long hallways as noted and also some very small rooms to "clear", it will be interesting to get those user (PMC) generated missions in this map. The textures and objects are all just fine by my, if you would pick your eye with a fork... just maybe you could made me to say that normal RSE made Rogue maps are 100% this would be like 97-98%, but dont think that this is anyway lame map etc. It is Good. Funny thing also exists like the condominium machine in the bathroom ;)
Anyway the tangos is this mission are men with suits & assault rifles, basically the guys from UO 1st mission only with changed facial textures to make them look Koreans. There are like five hostages.

Korean face     Korean Sniper!

Burning Ash - one of the biggest sports game of the world, 2002 world cup, is held in Seoul. a group of                            terrorists has seized the world cup main stadium and threatened to destroy it.
This is even bigger map! Oh my... do you have fetish for breaking the glass/windows in R6 series? well I do and shit man, in this second mission there is so much glass doors, windows & crap that Hooayh! :) There are even more small rooms than the scarlet wheel and long hallways, and to top of that there is very large open areas in the outside part of the map. The stadium building is very good looking with massive appearance, you really feel like in part of the athlete community hehe. In this mission there are two bombs you need to disarm and secure the third location. Terrorists are plainclothes with korean faces again. No hostages, only bombs. There is some same objects used as in the scarlet wheel, which really dont do much damage to the feeling, but you certainly notice it.

hey guys...    blah you perverts!

One thing I need to mention, when you shoot terrorists dead and they drop to the ground, they disappear. This was odd I though at first, but playing more the mission levels I figured out that these maps are so large that they are lagging pretty much, so it helps to remove the dead terrorists. But I must admit that this is NOT the way Rainbow Six works, and it seems a bit fishy to me... although I would not want the game to start to lag too much, of course I might be completely wrong about this, dunno, but why else they would disappear? Feels like playing goddamn "quake 3 rocket up yar ass!!1" game with this feature :(

conference table    Busses...

Conclusion

This is must to have, period. Some whiners with anal modems migh bitch about leeching a iSO for just 2 missions, but hell... dont leech it if you dont want to play it, simple. This is very high quality Rogue Spear title no guestion about it, even its only 2 missions and one weapon. But you should also consider leeching the IND rip release by uhm.. someone :) it is only 24megs of size and works like normal MOD.

Wide area on outside    More busses

take a shower sir?     K-2 new weapon


We speak Korean :)


Game review machine specs:
- Intel Celeron 300 @ 450mhz
- 128mb ram
- matrox g400
- sb live! value

Windows 98se, direct-x 7.0a and latest drivers for sb/g400.


review by Snake Man, PMC at 05-27-00

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