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Available now at GOG.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tTtvwqyxOM Signal Ops is "multiple-perspective first-person tactical espionage game." You work for a shady clandestine organization, and you are in charge of carrying out missions for that organization. More specifically, you command a squad of specialists as they carry out the mission. You sit in the control post and monitor your agents through first-person cameras. Communication with your agents depends on the radio, but the radio is heavy and the battery lasts about thirty seconds, so you have to rely on the Bolt agent to lug the radio around and plug it in. With the rest of your motley crew, you will be charged with blowing up bridges, attacking tanks, infiltrating enemy bases, planting evidence, and so on.  Combat and stealth are the two main features of Signal Ops. Often you'll want to stay hidden, either to get the upper hand in a fight or to carry out your dastardly deeds. With six agent types to choose from and relative freedom in how you choose to approach each mission the goal seems to be to let you build and command a squad to get around the various obstacles the game throws at you. Hopefully it will steer away from the Commandos-esque "find the right solution" thing that infects some of these games.  Your combat specialist, the Shield agent, is great for straight up fights, whereas the Scope agent is more useful for players who prefer sniping. There's also the Demo agent who blows things up and the Wrench agent who can pick locks, lock doors to delay enemies, and so on. Releases March 14  The game is being made by Space Bullet Dynamics Corporation who you have to give credit to for that name, I guess. The game will support single player and coop with up to 2 other people (that's 3 total) via LAN, split screen, and online, in any combination. It will have gamepad support and yes those voices in the videos are placeholder voices.  Stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSV3ci8uxHw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeqHKG1fNS4 TychoCelchuuu fucked around with this message at Apr 5, 2013 around 15:39 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 01:39 |
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Preview up on Gamasutra! They care about the game but nobody here does 
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| # ? Feb 25, 2013 18:27 |
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Haha, that Indie Statik preview is the one I wrote. It's good fun. It needs some tweaks to the AI pathing and perhaps clearing up a few weird snagging points on the level geometry, but I reckon it'll be worth the money by the time the final build rolls round.
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The concept sounds awesome but the gameplay video looks, well, crappy. Not sure if I'm sold on the style either. Hope it will turn out good though.
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Their "Navmesh Autotester" has produced a slightly surreal video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=516a9Au2DMA
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| # ? Mar 29, 2013 05:13 |
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Release date pushed to April 2nd, exclusive on GOG.com at least at first.
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| # ? Mar 30, 2013 01:25 |
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Yeah, the gameplay itself does look very poor, which is a shame. It's an interesting concept on paper.
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| # ? Mar 30, 2013 01:31 |
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What's up with them graphics? Looks like something I played on my Dell Pentium in 1996.
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| # ? Mar 30, 2013 01:43 |
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So the screen will always have more than one monitor? It's a bit nauseating.
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| # ? Mar 30, 2013 02:07 |
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SERPUS posted:What's up with them graphics? Looks like something I played on my Dell Pentium in 1996.
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| # ? Mar 30, 2013 03:30 |
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I dont think its the style anyone would object to (it has more than a generous dob of TF2 about it), but it does look pig ugly, and the voice work in general seems awful. However, it could be a bit of fun. Its an interesting take on the "small group of playable dudes" genre, if a little rough around the edges. I checked Gog, and it doesn’t seem to be up for preorder. Does it have a price yet? As a low budget indy title it might be worth a go if only to bundle a few goons together and play (yet almost any game can be given that credit). Cheers for bringing it to our attention though TychoCelchuuu, id never heard of this.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Yeah gently caress this game for not looking like Battlefield 4. Everyone knows games are more fun when they all look like carbon copies of CoD 4 with varying degrees of fidelity. There's a difference between looking unique and looking bad. This make Deus Ex look pretty.
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| # ? Mar 30, 2013 04:05 |
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This game is out now!
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| # ? Apr 3, 2013 14:33 |
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Release trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tTtvwqyxOM
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| # ? Apr 5, 2013 15:39 |
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Argh, I missed this, entirely. Set a release day around Bioshock: Infinite's and suffer the consequences, I guess! This game will always be a tough sell, but also a must play for those devoted to stealth titles. I think of Signal Ops as a re-imagining of those wasted hours of the late 90s/early 2000's: we've all played through the pain of a forced stealth sequence in an otherwise fun game, where one ill-timed encounter with a dimwitted guard suddenly ruins an otherwise flawless run. This game makes a habit of dropping the player off the deep-end into those soul-crushing stealth sequences, but with gadgets and gameplay systems designed around surviving inanely repetitive patrols and brutally punishing GoldenEye style alarms. On the art direction: just from within the operations room, the game world evokes the style of Beyond Good and Evil, with a little bit of The Triplets of Belleville, even political impressionists such as Jean-Louis Forain. It isn't an uncanny-UNREAL 4 visual tour de force but it is very pleasantly moody, especially in action. Running through missions can give the feeling like I'm staring at an early DS game at times, but I assume this is simply a manageable way of working within XBLA file limits. schizopol fucked around with this message at Apr 6, 2013 around 00:15 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 01:39 |
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Excellent, in-depth review of the game. I think. It's in Polish so I don't know what the gently caress.
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