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The manual doesn't offer much preparation, and there isn't any training, so a sudden shift from 'point and shoot' to calculating how much lead time to give an artillery shell can be a little daunting. This variety in gameplay styles also leads to wild shifts in the difficulty of the various levels. From level to level, I was never completely sure what I was going to be doing next (except for the relative certainty that shooting would be involved) - there aren't many full-priced games I can say that about. One level the player might be blasting away out the side of a helicopter, or from the top of a HMMV, then only a level later they might find themselves firing artillery to delay an armored column, or using an anti-aircraft missile launcher to destroy incoming helicopters. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of different gameplay modes they were able to generate using a fairly simple engine. Obviously that wouldn't work here, so the developers chose a different, and somewhat inspired, tactic - constantly changing play styles.

Generally rail shooters avoid this problem by including many different varieties of enemies, as well as clever boss battles. The realism factor provides something of a challenge from a design standpoint, as it means that the player will basically be shooting the same people throughout the entire game.

Terrorist Takedown is a realistic rail shooter set somewhere in the Middle East, where there are many, many angry people with guns that just need to be shot by the player.