Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger

 Xbox 360
Metascore
38

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 22
  3. Negative: 14 out of 22
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  1. Cheat Code Central
    48
    Raven Squad starts with a brilliant concept and doesn't bother to flesh it out into a fun or compelling game. It's practically a gift to competing developers. In that regard all it lacks is a note reading, "Here's a template for a hybrid FPS-RTS; do something useful with it, because we don't feel like it."
  2. MS Xbox World
    40
    Raven Squad sounded great on paper, and in many regards you could have forgiven poor graphics and dodgy sound if there was some flair and fun to be had with the gameplay. Sadly there is not.
  3. GameZone
    37
    Raven Squad is a monotonous, short and somewhat ugly FPS that is hard to recommend to anyone that isn’t looking for the interactive equivalent of a Steven Seagal flick.
  5. 3DJuegos
    32
    Raven Squad is bland, boring and definitely not fun. Avoid it at all cost.
  6. GameSpot
    30
    Raven Squad is 90 percent first-person shooter, 10 percent strategy game, and 100 percent bad.
  7. Destructoid
    30
    Just another ruined idea to throw on the ever-increasing pile. Not even the fact that one of the lines includes the term, "Satan's little piss-pot," could save this.
  8. games(TM)
    30
    A fumbled attempt at an interesting yet obviously tricky fusion of genres and no amount of laughs - intentional or otherwise - can save it. [Oct 2009, p.131]
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  9. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    30
    You'd be a Raven lunatic to buy it. [Oct 2009, p.90]
  10. Kombo
    30
    Raven Squad is a good idea gone bad.
  11. Console Monster
    28
    A graphical nightmare.
  12. Worth Playing
    25
    If you are looking for a tactical military shooter, I recommend picking up either of the Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter games, as they are legitimate products of this generation in video games. I think I'll go play them right now just to wash away the vile taste of Raven Squad.
  13. IGN
    20
    Don’t play this game. The idea of blending a first-person shooter with a real-time strategy game isn’t a bad one, but the execution was a complete failure. I’ll look back fondly at my time reviewing Raven Squad -- all three hours of it -- but only because I couldn’t stop laughing at the fact that this game exists.
  14. Eurogamer Spain
    20
    A total disaster that doesn't work neither as an action game or a strategy one. Avoid at all costs.
  15. Boomtown
    20
    Plagued by poor and outdated graphics, horrid voice acting and some of the dumbest AI of the year, the potential hit quickly turned into another bitter miss. Too bad.
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User Score
3.5

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 38 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 38
  3. Negative: 30 out of 38
  1. willsmith
    Oct 4, 2009
    0
    its one of the worst games ive ever played, dont buy it, rent it or even play it. horrible mechanics, incredibly unrealistic characters, and its one of the worst games ive ever played, dont buy it, rent it or even play it. horrible mechanics, incredibly unrealistic characters, and voices. it makes me wonder if evolved games put any effort at all into it… Full Review »
  2. Killacure
    Dec 2, 2009
    5
    hillariosly cheesy script and intersting gameplay meet frustrating shooting and slapdash implementation.
  3. kinw
    Sep 7, 2009
    1
    I think I could make a better game in my garage. The voice over work is the worst I have ever heard.
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