Delta Force is a series of
first-person shooter video games by
NovaLogic created in 1998. They are often included in the sub-genre labeled "
tactical shooters".
NovaLogic was the primary developer and license holder of the franchise until the acquisition of its assets by
THQ Nordic on October 31, 2016.
Games
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''Delta Force'' was the first game in the series, featuring multiple campaigns including catching a
drug lord
A drug lord, drug baron, kingpin or narcotrafficker is a high-ranking crime boss who controls a sizable network of people involved in the illegal drug trade. Such figures are often difficult to bring to justice, as they are normally not directly ...
in
Peru and campaigns against rebels in
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
,
Uzbekistan,
Indonesia and the
Russian island of
Novaya Zemlya
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.
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Delta Force 2'' was a sequel involving a campaign against fictional international
bioterrorist
Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. These agents are bacteria, viruses, insects, fungi, and/or toxins, and may be in a naturally occurring or a human-modified form, in much the same ...
organization Da'nil's and fictional
nuclear terrorist organization United Freedom. This also marked the first game in the series to feature a mission editor to make player-created missions.
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Delta Force: Land Warrior'' is the third game in the series, with a campaign involving fictional terrorist organization New Dawn. This was also the first game in the series to feature named characters with backgrounds:
Sniper
A sniper is a military/paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with high-precision r ...
"Daniel 'Longbow' Lonetree", Machine Gunner "Rydel 'Pitbull' Wilson", Demolitions Expert "Cole 'Gas Can' Harris", female
CQB
Close-quarters combat (CQC) or close-quarters battle (CQB) is a military tactics, tactical situation that involves a physical fight with firearms involved between multiple combatants at short range. It can occur between military units, police/co ...
expert "Jen 'Snake Bite' Tanaka" and female underwater combatant/
medic "Erica 'Mako' Swift".
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Delta Force: Task Force Dagger'' was a standalone expansion pack for Land Warrior and took place during the
War in Afghanistan, including a final mission based on the
Battle of Tora Bora.
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Delta Force: Urban Warfare'' was the fifth title in the series and its only
PlayStation
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exclusive. This would also be the first and only game in the series to feature cutscene cinematics, telling the story of a
Delta Force operative named John Carter who had taken part in a failed drug deal bust in
Tumaco,
Colombia
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and was subsequently sent undercover by
CIA agent Robert Jackson to capture or kill the involved drug lord and
red mercury smuggler Malik. The drug lord in last part of the story tries to escape by a plane and is shot down by John using a
MANPAD.
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Delta Force: Black Hawk Down'' was the sixth title in the series, and was heavily inspired by Ridley Scott's
eponymous movie, being similarly set during the
Somali Civil War and the
First Battle of Mogadishu. It added new features like being able to operate
.50 cal Brownings,
miniguns and
recoilless rifle
A recoilless rifle, recoilless launcher or recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated "RR" or "RCL" (for ReCoilLess) is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propel ...
s from
Humvees,
UH-60 Blackhawks and various
technicals.
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Delta Force: Black Hawk Down - Team Sabre'' was an expansion pack for Black Hawk Down that added two additional campaigns; one involving fictional
Colombian drug lord Antonio Paulo and one a fictional
Iranian coup by General Haatim Jaareeh Bin Shamim Kalb. The expansion also included more vehicles with mounted weapons -
Véhicule Blindé Légers,
MH-53 Pavelows,
Rigid-hull inflatable boats and patrol boats.
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Delta Force: Xtreme'' was the eighth title and a remake of the first game. It was also the first in the series to give the player the ability to drive vehicles, motorcycles, tanks, APCs, boats and pilot helicopters. It features the Peru, Chad and Novaya Zemlya campaigns from the first game.
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Delta Force: Xtreme 2'' was the ninth title in the series; despite its name, it is not a remake of a previous game in the series, but an original game. It featured two intertwined campaigns involving a Central Asian
arms smuggler
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Alian Khalid who has armed and is using a South-East Asian
drug cartel by providing them military-grade weapons in exchange to following his orders and has aims to remove Western influence in the Middle-East. Missions involve attacking and destroying both groups.
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Delta Force Angel Falls'' was going to be the tenth title in the series, taking place in South America. It was never released and is now considered
vaporware due to
NovaLogic's closure in 2016.
* ''Delta Force: Hawk Ops'' was announced in August 2023. It is set to be a
free-to-play,
cross-platform title, being released across
PC,
consoles, and
smartphones
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. While the multiplayer modes are set to feature both competitive, large-scale, class-based combat (including the use of land-, sea-, and air-based vehicles) and cooperative play against AI-controlled opponents, the singleplayer campaign will be a remake of the campaign from ''Black Hawk Down.''
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Video game franchises introduced in 1998
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