Hostages is a game I played a lot back in the days. The basic mechancis are quite simple, and the game is great fun. The story is this: Terrorists have taken control of an embassy, and you control a anti-terrorist force of six men.
First thing you need to do is place your men strategically: the three snipers goes on top of the buildings surrounding the embassy, and the other three goes on top of the embassy building (so they can enter through the windows).
When moving your guys into position, you need to dodge the search-lights, by hiding behind a wall, in a door entrance etc. If you're ever caught in the light, you will be shot dead.
Once your guys are in place, you use the snipers to scan the buildings, checking for terrorists. You need to be careful though, so you don't shoot any of the hostages.
When you've entered the building, you move around, room by room, in a first person view, killing terrorists as you see them, but again being careful not to kill hostages.
I think this is another example of where a game comes out more fun because it mixes three different games (positioning, sniping and walking around). Each part is simple in itself, but put together, it gives a real nice sense of variety, and makes the game very fun.
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