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Spec Ops: Covert Assault for PlayStation 1
Spec Ops: Covert Assault for PlayStation 1 has you infiltrate heavily guarded areas with two US Rangers. In this military shooter, you view the soldiers from outside and carry out assignments across four locations, including Sicily and Longtain Airbase. You choose your team and adapt its equipment to the briefing. A sniper helps at range, while other specialities work better for a close-range attack. What you take determines which solutions you have at hand along the way.
During the mission, you can switch between the two Rangers and give simple orders to the computer-controlled partner. Have him follow, wait or join an attack while you seek cover yourself. Crouching, sidestepping and choosing the right weapon help when guards spot you. The different mission phases each provide a new objective, so you regularly have to reconsider where you are going and which soldier takes the lead.
You can also cooperate locally with two players on a split screen. Use two controllers connected directly to the PlayStation; no Multitap or second console is needed. A standard controller works and DualShock control is supported. After completing a mission phase, you can save your progress to a PlayStation memory card through the save screen. The game does not offer unrestricted saving in the middle of a firefight.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Spec Ops: Covert Assault for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Spec Ops: Covert Assault
Runecraft developed Spec Ops: Covert Assault for the original PlayStation, and Take-Two Interactive released it in 2001. It followed Stealth Patrol and Ranger Elite in the console line. The military series had its roots on PC, but these PlayStation instalments received their own structure built around two controllable Rangers. Covert Assault continued that approach with new locations and assignments while retaining the familiar selection of soldiers and equipment.
The original packaging explicitly presented the Rangers' return as an operation for a small team. Locations ranged from Sicily to an airbase, with different combat situations within the same campaign. The manual makes that team concept concrete: one player gives orders to a computer partner, while two players each control a Ranger. Cooperation was therefore woven into the actual missions rather than being a separate battle in which you had to eliminate each other.
That design choice places Covert Assault between the more action-focused military games and the more extensive tactical simulations of its time. You choose a speciality and distribute equipment, but carry out the fighting yourself with the controller. The subsequent Airborne Commando came from a different developer and focused on one soldier. Covert Assault instead preserves the approach in which two different Rangers and their mutual support form the core of an operation.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Like Covert Assault, Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol uses two Rangers, adjustable equipment and orders for a computer partner. The option to play missions together locally is shared too. The main difference lies in the campaign: Stealth Patrol takes you to places including Siberia and Vietnam, while Covert Assault builds new assignments around other locations. If you know the earlier game, you will therefore recognise the team choices, but must learn to read the routes and objectives afresh.
Spec Ops: Airborne Commando shares military briefings, weapons and sabotage assignments with Covert Assault. However, it has one Ranger operate alone and offers no local two-player cooperation. Covert Assault sticks with the duo, giving greater weight to choosing complementary specialities and helping a partner. Both call for a plan before setting out; in Airborne Commando you execute it independently, while here you also have to decide who takes on which task.
Metal Gear Solid shares the infiltration of guarded areas and careful weapon use with Covert Assault. You control Solid Snake alone, with stealth, distraction and an ongoing espionage story as important elements. Covert Assault organises its action around two Rangers and separate military mission phases. Entering unprepared can be dangerous in both; the difference is that Covert Assault also has you organise the position, equipment and support of a second soldier.
Like Covert Assault, Syphon Filter offers third-person shooting complemented by stealth and specific objectives. Its campaign follows agent Gabriel Logan through a conspiracy involving a biological weapon. Covert Assault lets you choose Rangers and their equipment before a small team carries out military assignments. Both games require patient observation and quick reactions, but guiding a partner and cooperating locally are more prominent parts of Covert Assault's approach.
Medal of Honor shares sabotage, enemy bases and secret military assignments with Covert Assault. Its campaign takes place during the Second World War and uses a first-person camera. Covert Assault shows your Rangers from outside and lets a second player join the same assignment. Medal of Honor instead uses its two-player battles for competition against each other. Both demand careful firearm use, but completing an operation together creates different teamwork here from hunting an opponent.
