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Close Combat: First to Fight

Close Combat: First to Fight is an authentic, team-based first-person shooter created under the direction of active-duty United States Marines fresh from the front lines of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Set…

68 6 April 2005

Close Combat: First to Fight is a shooter developed by Destineer, released 6 April 2005 on Wii, Xbox, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Close Combat: First to Fight is

Close Combat: First to Fight is a shooter game developed by Destineer and released in 2005. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on Wii, Xbox, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Close Combat: First to Fight is an authentic, team-based first-person shooter created under the direction of active-duty United States Marines fresh from the front lines of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Set in a modern mid-eastern urban battleground, players lead a four-man Marine fire team through the perils of modern urban combat. Together with the United States Marine Corps and Atomic Games, Destineer has created First to Fight as a training simulation for use by the Marine Corps and has now made it available to gamers.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Close Combat: First to Fight holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Close Combat: First to Fight launched on 6 April 2005, within three weeks of God of War, God of War I, Psychonauts and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: God of War, God of War I, Psychonauts, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

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When did Close Combat: First to Fight come out?
Close Combat: First to Fight was released on 6 April 2005 for Wii, Xbox, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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