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Terrorist Takedown

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Terrorist Takedown
Terrorist Takedown cover
Developers
City Interactive
Publishers
Germany City Interactive[1]
North America Merscom[2]
Russia Noviy Disk[3]
Digital CI Games
Engines
Impact 2
Release dates
Windows November 11, 2004
Reception
Metacritic 39
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Rail shooter, TPS
Vehicles Automobile, Helicopter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Middle East, Contemporary
Series Terrorist Takedown
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Terrorist Takedown 3 2010

Terrorist Takedown is a singleplayer first-person and third-person action, FPS, rail shooter and TPS game in the Terrorist Takedown series.

The game has poor performance on newer versions of Windows, see Issues fixed for the solution.

General information

Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from January 14, 2006.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable) Playfire Client
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Demo

A demo is available here.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\movies\.
  2. Delete or rename ati.mpg, cs000.mpg, and merscom.mpg.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\City Interactive\tt_en

Save game data location

System Location

Video

Options and Controls.
Options and Controls.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Setting Width and Height in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\City Interactive\tt_en\V4D Direct3D Renderer\ stretches the image. Use the FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image.
Multi-monitor
Stretched. Use the FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image.
Ultra-widescreen
Stretched. Use the FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image.
4K Ultra HD
Stretched. Use the FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image.
Field of view (FOV)
See the Instructions for other aspect ratios section of the FOV fix to change the horizontal FOV.
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Even though there are Registry entries and an in-game option to change antialiasing, they do not do anything.[6]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and Effects sliders available.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish
Russian

Issues fixed

Game crashes due to missing codecs

The game may crash on Windows Vista and later because it can't decode the movies properly due to missing codecs. This issue manifests itself as sudden exiting after seeing the menu loading screen.
This can be fixed by either using a dummy mpeg.dll or removing the video files.
Install dummy mpeg.dll[7]

Slow performance on Windows 10

Use dgVoodoo2

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Tokamak
Audio Aureal 3D

Display frame rate

The frame rate can be displayed in-game by enabling cheats (type "TIPS" at any time; don't mind the pause menu popping up) and pressing F.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon X600 Series or NVIDIA GeForce 210
2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[4] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[5]

References