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THE HOT 50

50 DELTA FORCE: HAWK OPS

FORMAT PS5 / ETA TBC / PUB TIMI STUDIO GROUP / DEV TEAM JADE / PLAYERS MULTI
The two multiplayer modes are set slightly in the future while the story mode is grounded in the real-life events of 1993.

Never heard of Delta Force? Then you, like us, weren’t a big PC gamer in the late ’90s.

Revolutionary at the time due to huge 3D environments that pushed what was possible on the platform, that ambition meant it never had much of a footprint on console. By the time it did make the leap, bigger series like Call Of Duty and Battlefield had already shaped what console shooters could be. But now Delta Force is back courtesy of Tencent and Team Jade, which developed Call Of Duty Mobile.

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