Following its multiplayer launch on the finish of final 12 months, free-to-play tactical FPS Delta Drive will get its delayed single-player marketing campaign mode, Black Hawk Down, subsequent Friday, twenty first February.
Delta Drive – a revival of defunct developer NovaLogic’s long-running shooter sequence – was introduced by writer Tencent in 2023. On the time, there was a lot discuss of its single-player story marketing campaign – impressed by Ridley Scott’s 2002 film Black Hawk Down and the basic Delta Drive marketing campaign of the identical title – nevertheless it did not materialise when Delta Drive’s multiplayer part launched into PC open beta in December.
Now, nevertheless, Tencent has given Black Hawk Down a (barely later than anticipated) twenty first February launch date. It’s going to be playable each solo and co-operatively, with gamers taking up the position of an elite Delta Drive operative as they “relive one of the crucial iconic army operations, the place an easy seize operation turns into an unattainable extraction.” There’s not a lot else to report simply but, however Tencent says it will be sharing extra “within the following days”.
Delta Drive – Black Hawk Down teaser trailer.Watch on YouTube
Eurogamer contributor Rick Lane was broadly impressed by Delta Drive when he performed it forward of its open beta launch final 12 months, saying it had a “actual shot at knocking Name of Responsibility and Battlefield off their perch”. Its reception hasn’t been fairly so heat on Steam, nevertheless, with ongoing participant complaints of rampant dishonest having contributed to its “combined” ranking.
Delta Drive is at present solely out there on PC however the sport – and its Black Hawk Down marketing campaign – are set to reach on Xbox Sequence X/S and PlayStation 5 at a later date.