Delta Force has an unlearning curve. Despite all pretenses of simulation, the new FPS (which just dropped the subtitle "Hawk Ops" from its name on Tuesday) is a twitchy arcade shooter through and through, which often leaves it at odds with its nakedly Battlefield-inspired maps. I came away from Delta Force with more of an appreciation for Battlefield's sense of heft and weight and Call of Duty's now characteristic lack of restraint.
It's a mostly elegant, sometimes uneven fusion of both ends of the modern military shooter. Weapons boast the exaggerated visual recoil and laser accuracy felt in Call of Duty, and maps feel almost patently lifted from Battlefield 4. Those elements are both key to their respective games, but it's immediately clear just how much less cohesive in vision and design Delta Force feels than CoD or Battlefield.
