So, I've only played around with this for about 30 minutes, give our take and I already don't really like it. Controls are confusing, the AI is messy and when I popped into a mission with a few attempts.. I kinda gave up and uninstalled the game. Your squad is dumb and doesn't respond to being shot at, they just sit there as they each die one by one while Im off trying not to get killed myself. Like literally, an enemy opened a door beside us and single handily flattend me and my team while they just crouched there, as if praying the terrorist wouldn't shoot them. I don't recommend this game, you can go ahead and try it if someone else bought it for you.. for... what ever reason but it's honestly just too difficult to play. Can't forget the AI 100% accuracy, no bullets miss. :)

I would have liked playing this game, I really would. What ruins it isn't the attempt at realism, it's the bots.

The teammate bots might as well not even exist. Sure, they can kill enemies, but only when they feel like it, as most of the time they stand still like a stonewall, especially when you die and are about to control one of them, which can easily kill the entire team before you can even have a chance to take control.

Had the bots been improved and made actually useful, the game would've been much more enjoyable. I play it from time to time, but I'm very lenient with unpopular videogames, so until (and IF) the bots git gud, skip over Takedown.

its a good game

fun to cheat in

I bought this game back in during the pre-order. Durning launch day the dev's posted saying the pre-order rewards would be coming out soon for the people who backed the game early via steam pre-order. I was excited and launched it on day one. It didn't work, servers never worked. So I said to my self. "That's ok! I'll give single player a try!" I died as soon as I spawned in to gun fire from the hijackers who could see me through the level. This game at the time I bought it cost me 25.00 dollars. I never saw my pre-order rewards. I never saw really any fixes the last two times I was brave enough to try this game a year later. It's a piece of worthless garbage. In my opinion Digital Homicide produces better games and if anyone knows who that is and the crap they produce. I don't need to say anymore... Skip this game! Don't give the dev's any funds! They don't deserve it!

This game supports ISIS... it's that terrible. I was given this for free.. and it was still too expensive... I wouldn't wish this game on a blind kid with no hands to play it with even... It made me contemplate becoming a priest that emphasized pacifism...

Horrible... I really hope the game studio is bankrupt and working at McDonalds.

I see people hating on this game, but lets give actual reasons for why this game is bad okay?

I'll start off with the pros, then move to the cons.

The overall design direction is something that I honestly really liked.
You get one life, a multitude of weapons to choose from, and you can experience this with your friends through different missions that will test your skill, ability to communicate as a team, and planning. The maps feel rather well laid out, and don't really detract from what this game is.\
The difficulty that is presented with the AI also feels good, the enemies have very realistic bullet damage, so when going up against them, its quite based on if you can outsmart the AI.
There is also a map editor that got placed into the game, haven't used it myself, but thats pretty cool!

What does detract from it?
Number one thing for me, is how clunky the controls feel, I can work around everything else, but controls feeling weird are honestly just a no go from me.
The way everything handles just doesn't feel smooth in the slightest, so honestly most of the times I died honestly felt like they could be chocked up to how poorly it felt like it controlled. If you want to make a game difficult and challenging, go for it, but combine difficulty with poor handling and all you manage to create frustration. If difficulty is done right it can make players strive to beat the challenge.

The game also makes a few missteps in how enemies and objectives are spawned. The objective and replayability of the game comes into play with how the arena should change, because the missions you're engaging in are as quick reaction to situations, so you wouldn't be going in knowing anything besides Maaaybe the floor plan of the buildings.
But this gets negated when objectives spawn in the same places no matter what.
Here's a place where a system like what Payday 2 has, where buildings have certain features that get randomized every time you load up a new match, would be amazingly beneficial and would go miles for replayability.

I also praised the enemies a little earlier, however I should mention they're honestly very stupid, the designers managed to get around this slightly by placing all the enemies facing towards where the player would most likely appear in front of them, but still, there were situations where I managed to go behind an enemy and just follow them for a little while, so yeah, enemies are very unintelligent from my experience.

Finally, the UI is fairly clunky and not very easy to manage, choosing a loadout honestly feels very weird, its been a long time since I played it, but it feels very unwieldy and hard to work with.

I think the core idea of this game is definitely saveable, can this game be patched and fixed? If the controls could be made to be tighter, I would invest more time in this game, since I would honestly be able to enjoy the game. If there was more replayability through map randomization, then I think this could be a very competitive game instead of what it is in its current state.
But as I was saying, the core idea is good, but the overall package doesn't really deliver since its not really a polished package. Stay away unless some of these things get fixed.

-Not updated for years
-Few hours of content
-If it was free still would be S*** and i bought it for 50 cents during a sale
-AI are all 360 no scope instant headshoters
-Missions Are predictible and easy to memorize with how few of them there are

Alright, so I'm gonna start with the AI. This masterpiece is one of the best AI I've ever seen, not to mention that it's not meant for peasants. For example, the "Easy" mode is comparable to the "Veteran" mode from Call of Duty, and CoD is a game with an extremely high skill cap, mind you. Basically, the "Hard" difficulty can be compared to the hideous amount of rekt you get when you achieve a ♥♥♥♥ grade in school. Yeah, it's so hard you don't even want to play it.

Pros:
- best AI available on the market;
- a 9mm bullet deals 95dmg to heavy armor, being an accurate military simulation at its roots;
- the terrorists are ISIS counterparts;
- SWAT is as dumb as it is in real life;
- you can pick up Asian girls with ease;

Cons:
-Asian girls don't know what this game truly is

stay away!