Spec Ops: Covert Assault is the third game in the budget-priced Spec Ops line for the PlayStation. The series takes the first-person shooter genre and attempts to fuse it with aspects of real combat, in the hopes of giving players a sense of what it is actually like to take on dangerous black ops military missions. Covert Assault is no different in this regard, as you'll take on the role of two different elite rangers as they scour the globe, quietly ridding it of evil at every turn. In Covert Assault, you choose two rangers from a host of different soldiers with their own abilities. Select from the machine gunner, close-quarters fighter, sniper, grenadier, and rifleman. Once you've chosen your rangers, you will be able to customize them with a whole host of different guns and items such as body armor and grenades. You then enter into the game, which is made up of four different missions, ranging from the island of Sicily to the deep anonymous jungles of a far away place.
ShooterTacticalActionWarfaremodern warfaredeathmilitarywarsplit-screen multiplayermodern militarypolygonal 3dsnipingplaystation tv supportguerilla warfareteam killingPlayStation 3, PlayStation
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Where do you stand?
Three questions people argue about. Answer first, then see how your circle and the community split.
Would Spec Ops: Covert Assault hit harder if it came out today rather than in 2001?
Sign in to answerBe the first to answer.
Ask the title a question
Answered from what people have written, never made up: a verdict, how much when it's a matter of degree, and the sentences that say so, quoted with their names. Reviews here first, then TMDB's reviews and the title's Wikipedia plot and reception. If nothing settles it, you can put it to the curators.
Character
Grave, plot-driven, earnest and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation
- Developer
- Runecraft
- Publisher
- Take-Two Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment
- Released
- June 28, 2001
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Third person
Screenshots
Pairings
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
Delta Force: Urban Warfare 200285% alikeBoth grave, plot-driven, earnest.
Alfa: Antiterror 200585% alikeBoth grave, earnest, plot-driven.
SOF/Raiders 201983% alikeBoth grave, plot-driven, unpretentious.
Terrorist Takedown 3 201083% alikeBoth grave, plot-driven, earnest.
Both earnest, grave, plot-driven.
Law & Order: Dead on the Money 200283% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Global Operations 200283% alikeBoth plot-driven, grave, earnest.
Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements 201982% alikeBoth plot-driven, earnest, unpretentious.
Eleventh Hour 200876% alikeSeries · Both earnest, classical in form, grave.
CSI: Cyber 201575% alikeSeries · Both earnest, classical in form, grave.
Often played with
Similar games per IGDB. Opening one adds it to Curator Co.
