
Many of the series' trademark features, such as bullet ballistics and later weapon sway, were abandoned in favour of simpler action-focused gameplay. While all earlier Delta Force games focus on long distance outdoor combat and have open ended mission design, Black Hawk Down focuses on close quarters combat in urban environments with heavily scripted missions more similar to the then-recent Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. The gameplay in Delta Force: Black Hawk Down differs heavily from earlier installments in the series. The final mission features an alternate history, in which the player and a team of operators carry out the assassination of Mohamed Farrah Aidid. During the latter section of the game, the player will still play as that soldier, but is now sent to the 3rd Ranger Battalion and the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, commonly known as Delta Force. They are assigned to 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, taking part in Operation Gothic Serpent, a military operation conducted during the Battle of Mogadishu on October 3, 1993. Following the third mission, the player assumes the role of the same soldier. They take part in the Unified Task Force peacekeeping operation during the Somali Civil War. The player begins the game as a soldier with Task Force Ranger, commanding three team members: Huck, Mother, and Preacher. It also took inspiration from the film Black Hawk Down. The game also features a mission editor with which players can make custom missions. The missions take place primarily in the southern Jubba Valley and the capital Mogadishu. It is set in the early 1990s, during the Unified Task Force peacekeeping operation in Somalia. It is the 6th game of the Delta Force series. It was released for Microsoft Windows on Mafor Mac OS X in July 2004 and for PlayStation 2 and Xbox on July 26, 2005. Delta Force: Black Hawk Down is a first-person shooter video game developed by NovaLogic.
