Inside the Iraqi POW base, the team is brutally interrogated due to concerns they are not conventional forces. With little choice, Bradley reluctantly orders his men to surrender. However, the special forces operators are captured after their patrol vehicle breaks down and they are surrounded. Bradley briefs his squad on the upcoming operation codenamed 'Operation Victor-Two'. The team succeed in destroying the designated targets, completing their objective.Īlpha-One (Delta Force) leader Sgt. Arnold in open-top desert patrol vehicles after being informed of a large presence of Iraqi forces approaching their location.Īfter learning Delta-Two is safe in Riyadh (the capital city of Saudi Arabia), the squad is sent on a covert operation (codenamed Operation Victor-Two) to infiltrate and destroy a key Iraqi communications site and fuel depot. The squad then desperately escapes with Sgt. The team must protect the operators from Iraqi forces before they and the sergeant are evacuated via helicopter extraction. At the communications bunker, Alpha-One set up a defensive position while three Deltas place C4 plastic explosives on communication towers. Arnold orders the team to locate and link up with the Delta squad the next morning, who are trapped in the city behind enemy lines.įoley observes an Iraqi convoy along a Main Supply Route (MSR) through night vision binoculars.Īfter rendezvousing with the Delta sergeant, two Delta Force operators are killed in an incoming mortar strike as Alpha-One escorts the squad to an extraction point – a communications bunker. The team arrive at Delta-Two’s last known position, but do not make immediate visual contact with them. During this, they receive a distress call from a US Delta Force squad operating under the call sign Delta-Two. The four original members ( Bradley, Foley, Conners and Jones) return under a new operational call sign: Alpha-One.ĭuring the first few days of Kuwait’s occupation, Alpha-One is deployed to Al-Hadar, Iraq, tasked with an operation to destroy mobile Iraqi SCUD launchers along a Main Supply Route (MSR). The elite team consists of either British 22nd Special Air Service (SAS) or 1st SFOD-D (US Delta Force) operators, deployed during the 1991 efforts to repel Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Set during Operation Desert Storm, the story follows the covert operations carried out by one of these coalition special forces patrols.
The war was codenamed Operation Desert Shield during the build up of troops in Saudi Arabia, and Operation Desert Storm during combat operations (hence the game's title).Ĭoalition special forces teams were deployed during the conflict (most notably from the United States and United Kingdom), targeting key communication facilities, Main Supply Routes (MSRs) and mobile SCUD launchers. Iraq did not comply, resulting in conflict. In response to this invasion, US-led coalition forces consisting of 35 nations (including the United Kingdom) issued Iraq with a formal deadline to withdraw its troops from Kuwait midnight of 15 January, 1991.
PLAYSTATION 2 CONFLICT DESERT STORM SERIES
Conflict: Desert Storm II is the second instalment of the Conflict Series and is the sequel to Conflict: Desert Storm. It was developed by Pivotal Games and published by SCi Games. It was later released on GameCube in North America and Europe on 6 January 2004 and 6 February 2004 respectively. It was initially released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2 and Xbox on 19 September 2003 in Europe and 7 October 2003 in North America (8 October 2003 for Xbox). Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCubeĬonflict: Desert Storm II (titled Conflict: Desert Storm II: Back to Baghdad in North America), also referred to as simply Desert Storm II, is a third-person tactical shooter video game that takes place during the first Gulf War. Tactical shooter, third-person shooter, action