Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising

Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising

First-person tactical shooter video game developed by NovaLogic, released in 2004, set in Indonesia with cooperative multiplayer missions across land, air, and sea.

What is Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising?

Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by NovaLogic in 2004. It is the sequel to Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, set in Indonesia where players battle rebel forces across expansive battlefields.

Joint Ops, as it is commonly known, emphasizes cooperative team-based combat across land, air, and sea. Maps stretch up to 100 square kilometers, with up to 150 players in a session battling with a wide arsenal of real-world weapons and vehicles. Game modes include capture-the-flag, search and destroy, and deathmatch.

Key features include state-of-the-art graphics powered by a modified Unreal Engine, destructible environments, controllable combat vehicles, and in-depth squad command controls. Players can customize loadouts, utilize parachutes and grappling hooks, and coordinate actions through squad voice chat.

Joint Ops received generally favorable reviews upon release, with critics praising the large-scale multiplayer battles and squad-based coordination required for success. Some felt the graphics and environments were not as polished as other shooters of the time. It maintains an active modding community and fanbase even years after launch.

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