Product Description

The Mark puts you in control of a two-man team that's out to do the impossible - take on a terrorist army and win. A secretive organization has targeted London. A Russian millionaire has provided the nuclear warhead, an Iraqi warlord has delivered the carrier rocket. A single U.S. Marine officer and a mercenary will have to foil this plan on their own. It's the assignment of their lives -- both will fight for the lives of the innocent, and stop the madness before it's too late.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27492 in Video Games
• Brand: Dreamcatcher
• Model: PCO53450MB
• Released on: 2007-01-08
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Features

• 2 single-player campaigns, each with 18 levels in 6 different chapters
• Collect and use 15 different real-world weapons
• Ally with players from all over the world, in cooperative multiplayer action -- team up and defeat the terrorist threat
• Challenge others in various multiplayer modes like Death Match or Map Control
• Create your own challenging multiplayer maps with the powerful level editor

Customer Reviews

Terrible ! Do Not Buy This Game.
The title says it all, avoid this crappy game. It has the graphic sophistication of (maybe) Quake 2, will not work with Vista until you disable the high end graphics, wont support more than 1280 resolution..
There appears to be no way to skip the cut scenes, which is annoying.

I've given up on this pile after an hour and since there is a no returns policy on open games where I bought it (Fry's electronics - I need to stop going there, the other item I bought was also a dud) I shall have to chalk this one up to my stupidity for a spur of the moment buy. Should have waited and checked out the reviews here !

Games don't get much more average than this.
Actually, this game is less than average overall. I won't say it's terrible, because it's not. The artwork and atmosphere are actually pretty decent, but everything else (such as plot, pacing, and level design) I saw in this game has been done better in a hundred other less expensive games. For instance, "Marine Sharpshooter 3" is a budget title that cost less, but has far better level design in spite of lesser artwork, and is actually quite fun to play, whereas this game is strictly linear, uninspired, and is pretty much lackluster as far as gameplay goes. It's "okay", but certainly not much fun. There are plenty of first-person shooters that are in the twenty dollar or less range and are a few years old that play much better than this one.

And while the graphics aren't bad, it runs quite sluggish on my AMD64 3700+ with 2 gigs of ram and a 7900GS/256. This machine will run most state-of-the-art games very smoothly, but this game chokes on it. I believe the game engine they used was developed in-house by the game's developer, and is simply not optimized well. So even if you've got a decent machine, your framerates will likely be in the 20 frames per second range on average. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

It's not the worst game I've ever played. But it's simply uninspired and chugs along slowly, making gameplay quite frustrating at times. Dig around in any bargain bin and you can find many better games. That said, the developers do have potential, it's just not realized in this game. Maybe they'll get it right with their next effort.

Terrible
This is a clunky repetitive game with surprising high system requirements. Max Payne 2, Half Life 2 and Call of Duty, all of which are several years old, have lower system requirements but are much smoother and prettier. The game play of The Mark is silly and boring; you run around through a series of military bases, warehouses and terrorist hideouts blasting away. Enemy AI is moronic - on one level a terrorist did not notice a grenade exploding a few feet away. What really makes this game stink is the sound; it's just awful. Your assault rifle sounds like a pop gun. Don't waste your money, even if it's in the $5 bin, which it probably is by now