Beachhead: DESERT WAR
A one-gun arcade wave shooter hauled off a 2000s cabinet and onto PC. Sharp for twenty minutes, with very little reason to come back after that.
GamerScout Verdict
Worth it only for arcade shooter completists and Beachhead nostalgics; everyone else is done inside an hour.
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About Beachhead: DESERT WAR
Time Crisis kept you ducking between cover; DESERT WAR bolts you to one gun emplacement and dares you to hold the horizon. This is arcade cabinet DNA transplanted to PC, a wave shooter where armor, helicopters and infantry crawl across open desert and your only decisions are which weapon to cycle to and what to kill first. No cover, no movement, no story, just target priority and trigger discipline. The reflex loop tightens up nicely once the screen fills and you are juggling threats at three distances. Everything around it is thin: no progression, little variety between runs, and an Iraq War-era presentation that now reads as period artifact more than atmosphere. Singleplayer only, and most people will see all of it inside an hour. Want a short arcade blast, it delivers. Want something to live in, look elsewhere.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 98, XP, Vista, 7
- Memory
- 64 MB RAM
- Storage
- 90 MB available space
- Graphics
- DirectX-compatible video card that supports 16bit graphics
- Processor
- Pentium 350MHz
- Sound Card
- DirectX-compatible sound card.
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 98, XP, Vista, 7
- Memory
- 64 MB RAM
- Storage
- 90 MB available space
- Graphics
- DirectX-compatible video card that supports 16bit graphics
- Processor
- Pentium 350MHz or higher
- Sound Card
- DirectX-compatible sound card.
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Game Info
- Developer
- Digital Fusion Inc.
- Publisher
- Digital Fusion Inc.
- Release Date
- May 1, 2017