If you remember the forefather days of gaming, where action was dominated by bullets and explosions, a nostalgic tear may temporarily grace your eye when you first play "Elite Forces: Unit 77." The game attempts to employ a simple terrorist story coupled with 80s throwback game mechanics to peak the interest of seasoned gamers. However, the story, action and gameplay all fall short of delivering a true nostalgic gaming experience.
GamerDad writes: "Take some action, add strategy, mix with a dash of exploration and you might create something like the top-down team exploration-shooter that is Elite Forces: Unit 77. Players manage a team of four unique individuals as you explore a somewhat confined mission area, discovering traps and enemy agents along the way. A bit too slow paced to be a pure action game, it has too many real time elements to be considered a strategy title. If I had to describe the game to an old-school videogame player, I would consider it a top-down perspective of GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64, but with a team of four instead of a single character."
DreamStation writes: "It's no surprise that the best selling platforms get the most amount of games. This means there's a whole slew of bad ones. We've seen it with the original Nintendo, the Super Nintendo, both PlayStations, the Game Boys, and now the DS and Wii. Now some of these bad games are purposely poor. They're just shoveled out for cheap costs and a small profit is made; Hence, the term shovelware. Other bad games weren't designed to be bad they just had some kind of gameplay error or errors in them that made them less than stellar. Elite Forces Unit 77 is one of those games."
WP writes: "I'm not the biggest realistic military fan, but if there are fantasy or sci-fi military tactics involved, I'd be all over it. Despite that, I'm always willing to keep an open mind on topics I'm not fond of and neglect my predetermined biases in favor of fairness. At first glance, Elite Forces Unit 77 for the DS appears to be a generic army/military strategy game, but I ended up being pleasantly surprised with what the title had to offer."
