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''CT Special Forces'' is a 2002 RunAndGun video game made for the ''UsefulNotes/PlayStation'' and ''UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance'' developed by Light and Shadow Productions.
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''CT Special Forces'' is a 2002 RunAndGun video game made for the ''UsefulNotes/PlayStation'' ''Platform/PlayStation'' and ''UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance'' ''Platform/GameBoyAdvance'' developed by Light and Shadow Productions.
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* BigBad: Most of these games have an insurgent leader which serves as the FinalBoss, such as Lin Tao the mastermind from ''Back to Hell'' and the Network Mastermind in ''Bioterror'' who dons a powerful mech suit to assault the players. The fourth game notably has the leader of the Nemesis network, Anton Call.
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* BigBad: Most of these games have an insurgent leader which serves as the FinalBoss, such as Lin Tao the mastermind from ''Back to Hell'' and Kev-1 the Network Mastermind in ''Bioterror'' who dons a powerful mech suit to assault the players. The fourth game notably has the leader of the Nemesis network, Anton Call.
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* TimedMission: Missions involving disarming {{Time Bomb}}s require the players to locate and diffuse bombs (which can be easily done just by walking to it) before a certain time limit, or fail the mission in a NonStandardGameOver. ''Bioterror'' is prone to having these type of levels in the naval missions.
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* TimedMission: Missions involving disarming {{Time Bomb}}s require the players to locate and diffuse defuse bombs (which can be easily done just by walking to it) before a certain time limit, or fail the mission in a NonStandardGameOver. ''Bioterror'' is prone to having these type of levels in the naval missions.
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The Counter-Terrorist Special Forces are dedicated to preventing global terrorism from disrupting world peace, with their elite operatives standing in the way against a powerful syndicate called the Network. Against the Network's operations, three heroes stood in the way:
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* TankGoodness: ''Back to Hell'' and ''Bioterror'' have levels where the player can commandeer tanks to rampage across enemy territories. The tank's gampleplay is mostly ripped off from the ''VidelGame/MetalSlug'' games (vulcan, front-facing cannon, etc).
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* TankGoodness: ''Back to Hell'' and ''Bioterror'' have levels where the player can comandeer commandeer tanks to rampage across enemy territories. The tank's gampleplay is mostly ripped off from the ''VidelGame/MetalSlug'' games (vulcan, front-facing cannon, etc).
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''CT Special Forces'' is a 2002 RunAndGun video game made for the ''UsefulNotes/PlayStation'' and ''UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance'' developed by Light and Shadow Productions.
The Counter-Terrorist Special Forces are dedicated to preventing global terrorism from disrupting world peace, with their elite operatives standing in the way against a powerful syndicate called the Network. Against the Network's operations, three heroes stood in the way:
* 'Stealth' Owl, an ex-marine specializing in infiltration and urban warfare.
* 'Immortal' Raptor, a veteran soldier during the conflict in the Middle East, especially skilled in desert terrains.
* 'Avenger', an expert helicopter pilot.
The game spawned three sequels, ''Back to Hell'' and ''Bioterror'' (both in 2004, also for the Play Station and GBA) and ''Fire for Effect'' (2005, for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2).
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!!''CT Special Forces'' and its sequels contain examples of:
* AcePilot: 'Stealth' Owl or 'Immortal' Raptor are both capable helicopter pilots, but taken to the extreme with the third member, Avenger, where ''all'' his missions involves piloting helicopters across enemy territory, either to destroy insurgent aircraft, anti-air defences, escorting civilains through warzones, and transporting Owl and Raptor through enemy lines.
* AlmostOutOfOxygen: Tends to happen in underwater missions, where the players must complete an underwater area before their oxygen tank runs out (it refills in an instant as soon as the player breaks surface). Running out of oxygen results in the player dying instantly and using up another life.
* BigBad: Most of these games have an insurgent leader which serves as the FinalBoss, such as Lin Tao the mastermind from ''Back to Hell'' and the Network Mastermind in ''Bioterror'' who dons a powerful mech suit to assault the players. The fourth game notably has the leader of the Nemesis network, Anton Call.
* CloseRangeCombatant: The sequel games have enemies who forfeits the use of guns (despite being in the ''middle'' of a shootout) and instead uses close-range weapons. Like the machete-wielding mooks in the Eastern European ruins and the ninja-like soldiers in South-East Asia.
* ConstructionVehicleRampage: Lin Tao, the FinalBoss of ''Back to Hell'', sics an excavator on the player, which they must defeat while on foot.
* DarkActionGirl: Enemy mooks aren't limited to male members. There are female insurgents (from the second game, ''Back to Hell'' onwards) who usually serve as {{Cold Sniper}}s.
* EscortMission: ''Bioterror'' has a few missions involving the player piloting a helicopter into enemy territory and extract hostages, while battling insurgent aircraft and anti-air defenses all the way. As the hostages are VulnerableCivilians, it's advised to draw out all enemies and destroy everything before landing to collect the hostages, a process that repeats itself several times due to the helicopter's limited seating capacity. [[note]] Eight hostages in the area? Be prepared to make two trips, then... [[/note]]
* ExcusePlot: The briefings and backstories of each games (save for ''Fire for Effect'') can pretty much be skimmed through without missing anything, since the entire game is just a plot for players to kill terrorists and insurgents.
* GiantMook: Oversized, musclebound insurgents are a recurring threat from the second and third games, either attacking the players with heavy weapons (like bazookas) or lob torpedoes with their ''bare hands''.
* GratuitousNinja: The second and third games have levels set in South-East Asian jungles, where there are fast-moving mooks clad in ninja gear who attacks with curved blades.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: In several stages, the player can come across unarmed, surrendered enemy insurgents. When the player swapps their weapons to handcuffs, the insurgents will willingly turn themselves in (doing so rewards the player with extra points for "Non-lethal Arrests" by the end of the level).
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: ''CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect'', the last one:
** It's a 3D game on the ''UsefulNotes/PlayStation2'', for starters.
** Dialogue occuring between gameplay, which none of the previous game has.
** The game also somewhat has a plot to connect the missions together, rather than the previous three's "player kill terrorists and insurgents" plotlines.
* MissionControl: Jill from ''Back to Hell'', who every so often drops in to contact the players on checkpoints, objectives, and briefings in the middle of shootouts.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect'', the fourth and last game in the series, is played in third person and runs on 3D-graphics, unlike the previous three.
* OutOfFocus: The CT Operatives consists of 'Stealth' Owl', 'Immortal' Raptor and 'Avenger', the third which is left out of promotional materials and doesn't even shows his face during gameplay, due to him spending the entire level in a helicopter (in all fairness, that's how VerticalScrollingShooter usually plays out).
* PoweredArmor: The FinalBoss of ''Bioterror'' wears one of these to attack the player during his battle.
* RedBaron: 'Stealth' Owl or 'Immortal' Raptor, the two CT operatives the players control. They're OnlyKnownByTheirNickname as well.
* SeaMine: A recurring obstacle in underwater infiltration levels, but these can be shot from a distance.
* SnipingMission: Tends to show up during gameplay, marked by a checkpoint shaped like a bullseye. When this happens, the player automatically switches weapons to the SniperRifle and must gun down every single enemy through their crosshair. It's painfully tedious and frustrating in the first game as these missions give ''zero'' indicators on where enemy snipers are coming from, but the sequels fixed that by green indicators visible through the sniper scope alerting the players when enemies are near.
* StationaryBoss: Petra from ''Back to Hell'' comandeers a stationary turret during her boss battle. While she's fixed in a single spot, the fact that she spams bullets all over the place (as well as [[FlunkyBoss having mooks pop up for support]]) makes her quite a challenge.
* SyntheticPlague: The third game, ''Bioterror'', notably has the CT Forces ''preventing'' enemy insurgents from unleashing one of these capable of wiping out entire populations, with several levels dedicated to the player disarming bombs strapped to viral canisters.
* TacticalSuicideBoss: Arum Baya, the Middle-Eastern terrorist boss from ''Back to Hell'' is invincible for the entirety of the battle, and can sic gattling fire from a turret on top of his vehicle... and for some reason, he feels the need to, every few seconds, stick his body out of his armoured truck to take potshots at the players. He's vulnerable during this quick moment, and upon being shot enough, crashes his truck leading to his death.
* TankGoodness: ''Back to Hell'' and ''Bioterror'' have levels where the player can comandeer tanks to rampage across enemy territories. The tank's gampleplay is mostly ripped off from the ''VidelGame/MetalSlug'' games (vulcan, front-facing cannon, etc).
* TimedMission: Missions involving disarming {{Time Bomb}}s require the players to locate and diffuse bombs (which can be easily done just by walking to it) before a certain time limit, or fail the mission in a NonStandardGameOver. ''Bioterror'' is prone to having these type of levels in the naval missions.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: While majority of the game is a side-scrolling shooter based on ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' or ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'', every now and then the levels will switch to becoming top-down shooters (usually when Avenger is in play), a SnipingMission (where the player must gun down all enemies through a scope before they can proceed) or an EscortMission (collect all hostages via helicopter and return to base).
* UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay: When it comes to parachuting / skydiving-themed levels. In most other games, players can just parachute into an area by hitting a button; but in this game players need to undergo a skydiving sequence where their character free-falls through a lengthy drop while two indicators shows up on either side of the screen (one vertical, one horizontal). Players must time their hits and press the jump button ''the exact moment'' their indicator hits a red zone; failure to press and the character falls to their deaths, losing a life and necessiting to restart the whole skydiving sequence.
* AWinnerIsYou: Oh boy... have we mentioned that for seasoned players, each game takes roughly two-and-a-half hours to complete?
** The first game ends with the player being briefed by his commander with a "Congratulations! But our mission isn't over yet!" congratulatory speech before being treated to the credits, imposed over a still frame of a helicopter taking off.
** The second and third game ends with a two-paragraph scrolling text stating there are more insurgents out there, and then it abruptly ends.
** Thankfully averted in ''Fire for Effect'', with a voiceover congratulating the players while a lengthy cutscene plays over a montage of previous levels.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left: [[TheHero 'Stealth' Owl]]. Right: [['Immortal' Raptor]]. Not pictured: [[AcePilot Avenger]].]]
''CT Special Forces'' is a 2002 RunAndGun video game made for the ''UsefulNotes/PlayStation'' and ''UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance'' developed by Light and Shadow Productions.
The Counter-Terrorist Special Forces are dedicated to preventing global terrorism from disrupting world peace, with their elite operatives standing in the way against a powerful syndicate called the Network. Against the Network's operations, three heroes stood in the way:
* 'Stealth' Owl, an ex-marine specializing in infiltration and urban warfare.
* 'Immortal' Raptor, a veteran soldier during the conflict in the Middle East, especially skilled in desert terrains.
* 'Avenger', an expert helicopter pilot.
The game spawned three sequels, ''Back to Hell'' and ''Bioterror'' (both in 2004, also for the Play Station and GBA) and ''Fire for Effect'' (2005, for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2).
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!!''CT Special Forces'' and its sequels contain examples of:
* AcePilot: 'Stealth' Owl or 'Immortal' Raptor are both capable helicopter pilots, but taken to the extreme with the third member, Avenger, where ''all'' his missions involves piloting helicopters across enemy territory, either to destroy insurgent aircraft, anti-air defences, escorting civilains through warzones, and transporting Owl and Raptor through enemy lines.
* AlmostOutOfOxygen: Tends to happen in underwater missions, where the players must complete an underwater area before their oxygen tank runs out (it refills in an instant as soon as the player breaks surface). Running out of oxygen results in the player dying instantly and using up another life.
* BigBad: Most of these games have an insurgent leader which serves as the FinalBoss, such as Lin Tao the mastermind from ''Back to Hell'' and the Network Mastermind in ''Bioterror'' who dons a powerful mech suit to assault the players. The fourth game notably has the leader of the Nemesis network, Anton Call.
* CloseRangeCombatant: The sequel games have enemies who forfeits the use of guns (despite being in the ''middle'' of a shootout) and instead uses close-range weapons. Like the machete-wielding mooks in the Eastern European ruins and the ninja-like soldiers in South-East Asia.
* ConstructionVehicleRampage: Lin Tao, the FinalBoss of ''Back to Hell'', sics an excavator on the player, which they must defeat while on foot.
* DarkActionGirl: Enemy mooks aren't limited to male members. There are female insurgents (from the second game, ''Back to Hell'' onwards) who usually serve as {{Cold Sniper}}s.
* EscortMission: ''Bioterror'' has a few missions involving the player piloting a helicopter into enemy territory and extract hostages, while battling insurgent aircraft and anti-air defenses all the way. As the hostages are VulnerableCivilians, it's advised to draw out all enemies and destroy everything before landing to collect the hostages, a process that repeats itself several times due to the helicopter's limited seating capacity. [[note]] Eight hostages in the area? Be prepared to make two trips, then... [[/note]]
* ExcusePlot: The briefings and backstories of each games (save for ''Fire for Effect'') can pretty much be skimmed through without missing anything, since the entire game is just a plot for players to kill terrorists and insurgents.
* GiantMook: Oversized, musclebound insurgents are a recurring threat from the second and third games, either attacking the players with heavy weapons (like bazookas) or lob torpedoes with their ''bare hands''.
* GratuitousNinja: The second and third games have levels set in South-East Asian jungles, where there are fast-moving mooks clad in ninja gear who attacks with curved blades.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: In several stages, the player can come across unarmed, surrendered enemy insurgents. When the player swapps their weapons to handcuffs, the insurgents will willingly turn themselves in (doing so rewards the player with extra points for "Non-lethal Arrests" by the end of the level).
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: ''CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect'', the last one:
** It's a 3D game on the ''UsefulNotes/PlayStation2'', for starters.
** Dialogue occuring between gameplay, which none of the previous game has.
** The game also somewhat has a plot to connect the missions together, rather than the previous three's "player kill terrorists and insurgents" plotlines.
* MissionControl: Jill from ''Back to Hell'', who every so often drops in to contact the players on checkpoints, objectives, and briefings in the middle of shootouts.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect'', the fourth and last game in the series, is played in third person and runs on 3D-graphics, unlike the previous three.
* OutOfFocus: The CT Operatives consists of 'Stealth' Owl', 'Immortal' Raptor and 'Avenger', the third which is left out of promotional materials and doesn't even shows his face during gameplay, due to him spending the entire level in a helicopter (in all fairness, that's how VerticalScrollingShooter usually plays out).
* PoweredArmor: The FinalBoss of ''Bioterror'' wears one of these to attack the player during his battle.
* RedBaron: 'Stealth' Owl or 'Immortal' Raptor, the two CT operatives the players control. They're OnlyKnownByTheirNickname as well.
* SeaMine: A recurring obstacle in underwater infiltration levels, but these can be shot from a distance.
* SnipingMission: Tends to show up during gameplay, marked by a checkpoint shaped like a bullseye. When this happens, the player automatically switches weapons to the SniperRifle and must gun down every single enemy through their crosshair. It's painfully tedious and frustrating in the first game as these missions give ''zero'' indicators on where enemy snipers are coming from, but the sequels fixed that by green indicators visible through the sniper scope alerting the players when enemies are near.
* StationaryBoss: Petra from ''Back to Hell'' comandeers a stationary turret during her boss battle. While she's fixed in a single spot, the fact that she spams bullets all over the place (as well as [[FlunkyBoss having mooks pop up for support]]) makes her quite a challenge.
* SyntheticPlague: The third game, ''Bioterror'', notably has the CT Forces ''preventing'' enemy insurgents from unleashing one of these capable of wiping out entire populations, with several levels dedicated to the player disarming bombs strapped to viral canisters.
* TacticalSuicideBoss: Arum Baya, the Middle-Eastern terrorist boss from ''Back to Hell'' is invincible for the entirety of the battle, and can sic gattling fire from a turret on top of his vehicle... and for some reason, he feels the need to, every few seconds, stick his body out of his armoured truck to take potshots at the players. He's vulnerable during this quick moment, and upon being shot enough, crashes his truck leading to his death.
* TankGoodness: ''Back to Hell'' and ''Bioterror'' have levels where the player can comandeer tanks to rampage across enemy territories. The tank's gampleplay is mostly ripped off from the ''VidelGame/MetalSlug'' games (vulcan, front-facing cannon, etc).
* TimedMission: Missions involving disarming {{Time Bomb}}s require the players to locate and diffuse bombs (which can be easily done just by walking to it) before a certain time limit, or fail the mission in a NonStandardGameOver. ''Bioterror'' is prone to having these type of levels in the naval missions.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: While majority of the game is a side-scrolling shooter based on ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' or ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'', every now and then the levels will switch to becoming top-down shooters (usually when Avenger is in play), a SnipingMission (where the player must gun down all enemies through a scope before they can proceed) or an EscortMission (collect all hostages via helicopter and return to base).
* UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay: When it comes to parachuting / skydiving-themed levels. In most other games, players can just parachute into an area by hitting a button; but in this game players need to undergo a skydiving sequence where their character free-falls through a lengthy drop while two indicators shows up on either side of the screen (one vertical, one horizontal). Players must time their hits and press the jump button ''the exact moment'' their indicator hits a red zone; failure to press and the character falls to their deaths, losing a life and necessiting to restart the whole skydiving sequence.
* AWinnerIsYou: Oh boy... have we mentioned that for seasoned players, each game takes roughly two-and-a-half hours to complete?
** The first game ends with the player being briefed by his commander with a "Congratulations! But our mission isn't over yet!" congratulatory speech before being treated to the credits, imposed over a still frame of a helicopter taking off.
** The second and third game ends with a two-paragraph scrolling text stating there are more insurgents out there, and then it abruptly ends.
** Thankfully averted in ''Fire for Effect'', with a voiceover congratulating the players while a lengthy cutscene plays over a montage of previous levels.
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