Joint Task Force

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Joint Task Force

Developer(s)	Most Wanted Entertainment
Publisher(s)	HD Publishing Sierra Entertainment,
Designer(s)	Attila "Maci" Bánki-Horváth
Release date(s)	September 12, 2006
Genre(s)	Real-Time Strategy
Mode(s)	Single Player & Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen
Platform(s)	Windows

Joint Task Force is a PC real-time strategy game where players command military forces in combat situations based on modern day conflicts.

The game includes officially licensed vehicles and weapons systems from major defense contractors including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Sikorsky.

Joint Task Force was developed by Most Wanted Entertainment and was co-published by HD Publishing and Sierra Entertainment in September 2006.

1 Setting
2 Gameplay
3 List of Equipment and Vehicles
4 Officer Classes
5 Mission list
6 Recommended System Requirements
7 Reviews
8 External links

[edit] Setting

Screenshot showing a mission set in the Middle East.

Joint Task Force is set in the near future. In the single-player campaign, players follow the JTF first battalion and its commander, Major O’Connell, in a fight for order and stability in missions based on actual combat situations. The single player campaign consists of 5 scenarios set in Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Colombia and Iraq.

[edit] Gameplay

The gameplay in Joint Task Force is focused around tactical decision making.

Instead of resource collection, players get money to spend per mission and per objective. Troopers and equipment are assigned at the beginning of each mission, and more may be ordered by helicopter and trooper transport.

Troopers also gain experience and can be promoted to officer status. Officers have a skill tree that can be improved over time, similar to popular role-playing games.

The singleplayer campaign can be played cooperatively with another player; but reports are that this suffers heavily from desync (the message displayed is INCONSISTENCY WITH OTHER PLAYER) which also plagues multiplayer in general.

[edit] List of Equipment and Vehicles

JTF

Apache Longbow Attack Chopper
Humvee (.50 cal , TOW , GL)
M-1 Abram
Recon buggy
Little Bird
AT-4
Grenade Launcher
Hand grenades
Night vision goggles
Gas mask
Mine Detector

The following are called in by designating a target (area) and after striking it disappear.

F-117 Stealth Fighter
A-10 Warthog
Tomahawk Cruise Missile
UAV

Dictator/Terrorist

SA-7 Grail AA Launcher
Hind
Shilka
T-72
T-90
BMP
RPG

They have counterparts to most everything the JTF has.

Other (cannot be ordered by either, but can be found on a map (or has a different role)

MH60K, Mi17 - Transport helicopters, delivering men and vehicles to where they were "bought" to.
ATV (?) - Four-wheeled 1-man motorcycle.

This list is incomplete.

[edit] Officer Classes

Engineer
Pilot
Sniper
Commando
Medic
Ranger
Armored Commander

[edit] Mission list

Operation Swift Phoenix
Operation Garden Light
Operation Distant Sweep
Operation Crimson Harvest
Operation Decisive Shield
Operation Noble Horizon
Operation Infinite Response
Operation Eternal Guard
Operation Intense Harvest
Operation Urgent Arms
Operation Ghost Promise
Operation Enduring Forge
Operation Vigilant Arms
Operation Fiery Star
Operation Green Anvil
Operation Quick Wind
Operation United Thunder
Operation Silent Hope
Operation Golden Obelisk
Operation Red Sentinel

[edit] Recommended System Requirements

CPU: P4 3.0 GHz or equivalent processor
RAM: 1 GB RAM
Video card: GeForce 6800 or equivalent DirectX 9 compliant video card with hardware T&L and pixel shader 2.0 support
Sound card: Sound Blaster X-Fi series sound card