![]() You'll be tearing out your hair as hostages repeatedly get stuck on objects, get stuck on thin air (seriously), walk the wrong way, stroll right through closed doors and seemingly vanish, and perform other idiotic or physically impossible acts. The hostage artificial intelligence and pathfinding are so atrocious that you'll spend almost all your time trying to shepherd the hostages around. You do gain an extra two minutes each time you rescue a hostage, but that doesn't much matter. Making matters worse, even if you eliminate all the terrorists, you still have to lead the hostages back to a rescue point within the time limit. Sneaking into a building, slowly picking locks, locating terrorists, and escorting hostages within five minutes, for example, is asking way too much. Worse still, you'll have to complete FBI Hostage Rescue's missions within strict time limits. ![]() That perfunctory nod to realism is quickly forgotten when you find out that, quite implausibly, you'll have to do all the fighting and rescuing on your own. Before your mission, you read a briefing and view a schematic of the area you'll enter. Your goal is to enter areas where hostages are being held, blast the bad guys, and lead the hostages to safety. The game gives you a series of 10 single-player missions with no alternative single-player modes, difficulty settings, or multiplayer options. You can choose from a few basic weapons, but why bother? In fact, these problems are so bad that we were literally unable to get past the very first mission of the game, despite numerous attempts. Is it supposed to be a run-and-gun action game? Is it supposed to be a streamlined tactical shooter? That lack of clear vision makes the game a muddle from the start, and from that first misstep, things just go from bad to worse, adding up to more gameplay and technical problems than you could possibly count. One of its many problems is that it can't decide what it wants to be. FBI Hostage Rescue is an unplayable mess of a game it feels like a really bad amateur mod that was released before it was finished.
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