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Using the Marathon 2 engine, this as well
as ZPC look accordingly bad. You lead a platoon of marines in the game
and can give orders to your team colleagues. It incorporates a number
of real-time strategy game mechanics. The game takes place in modern
day, and the player is cast as a sergeant in the Marine Corps. in
charge of a team of thirteen Marines. The player is sent on a long
sequence of covert missions fighting various rogue militia and
paramilitary organizations based in assorted locations around the
United States. The player takes up to four squad members on each
mission, and though he is not always required to use them, the
missions become significantly easier if he does. Squad members are
extremely chatty and each have well defined personalities. The squad
members can die during combat, resulting in the player potentially
being short on men for the later missions. The game also includes
a separate multi-player game where players can each have their own
squad, resulting in some chaotic battles. Though obscure today, the game was one of the first FPS that took place in a realistic modern military-based environment and was likely the first to have the player command a fire team of NPCs. The original for the Mac
appeared earlier more than one year and was very popular there - as
was the entire Marathon series (see Mod-Addon section for direct PC
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