Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising (2004) PC

Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising is a first–person shooter game with elements of a shooting gallery and a tactical simulator.

The storyline

The near future, and taking into account the release date of the game, the present is also possible. Indonesia is drowning in a bloody civil war. Local residents united and opposed the government with a demand to give them freedom, but were severely refused. The people rallied, took possession of a warehouse of modern weapons and began to prepare for an armed uprising.

Behind-the-scenes games are being played on both sides of the barricades, everyone is looking for benefits and an opportunity to enrich themselves, while the civilian population, meanwhile, is threatened with violence and complete economic decline.

You can choose a side for yourself, become:

• a peacekeeper sent to Indonesia to control the situation and prevent the killing of civilians;
• a separatist, the commander of a small unit that is ready to do everything in order to free itself from the oppression of corrupt authorities.

Gameplay

The single-player game consists of a number of training missions, where the gamer will learn how to command a squad, equipment, use the terrain, available inventory to achieve the tasks with minimal losses.

Most of the gameplay is sharpened for corporate passage, and up to 150 people can take part in the mission at the same time. This turns the shooter into a massive online MMO FPS shooter. Any gamer is free to create his own server, designed for 64 players, or join an existing community, clan.

Modes

The cooperative game includes 5 modes:

• Cooperation – all players are peacemakers and are obliged to resist AI-controlled rebels;
• King of the Mountain is a team game where you need to defend a specified territory or object for 10 minutes;
• Deatchmatch – you need to fill as many frags as possible in the allotted time;
• Team Deathmatch – the previous mode where players are divided into teams and have to kill only opponents;
• Advance and Secure – you need to hold the specified points until