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Elite Forces: WWII - Desert Rats

WWII: Desert Rats is a World War II-era third-person action game that incorporates driving and shooting elements. Players control a two-man British Jeep team behind German lines in North Africa. The driver of…

73 17 March 2002 ESRB T

Elite Forces: WWII - Desert Rats is a racing developed by Canopy Games, released 17 March 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Elite Forces: WWII - Desert Rats is

Elite Forces: WWII - Desert Rats is a racing game developed by Canopy Games and released in 2002. It was published by ValuSoft. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Havok Physics. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

WWII: Desert Rats is a World War II-era third-person action game that incorporates driving and shooting elements. Players control a two-man British Jeep team behind German lines in North Africa. The driver of the Jeep is always the same, though the player has a choice of five different tail gunners, each with their own different attributes. For example, one of them may be better with the bazooka, while another one is best with grenades, etc. However, all gunners are able to use all weapons. Controls are similar to a first-person shooter. The keyboard moves the Jeep around while the mouse aims the weapon operated by the gunner. This allows the player to drive in one direction while shooting…
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How it plays

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

How it was received

Elite Forces: WWII - Desert Rats holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Elite Forces: WWII - Desert Rats launched on 17 March 2002, within three weeks of Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

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When did Elite Forces: WWII - Desert Rats come out?
Elite Forces: WWII - Desert Rats was released on 17 March 2002 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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