Comments on: RPS At E3: Sweeping Up

By: George

George — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:59:11 +0000

The lead designer on Rogue Trooper is lead on AvP. It’ll work out well. Also, I think you are wrong about the predefined jump points.

By: PHeMoX

PHeMoX — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:20:25 +0000

Am I allowed to say it out loud here??

Ow well, fuck yeah! This game I have waited for aaaages. Great stuff.

By: JSK

JSK — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:24:30 +0000

If Alpha Protocol can manage Mass-Effect level “dull but passable” action elements, but add in 1) decent stealth options to avoid said action elements, 2) actual reactivity to in-game decisions beyond moving a few bars on your character sheet and a lame promise to show the results of your decisions only after you spend $60 on the sequel, and 3) writing that doesn’t make me LOL at all the supposedly serious parts, it’ll be a day-one purchase for me, grey-ness notwithstanding.

By: Ging

Ging — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:18:39 +0000

@Wurzel: totally late to replay, but yeah – I know a few guys down there now (even went for a job there meself!) which is why it sits at the back of my mind whenever I look at alpha protocol.

By: Flappybat

Flappybat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:25:45 +0000

Awful Punisher game?!

It was like a sadistic Max Payne. Not quite as good but rather amusing.

By: Jetsetlemming

Jetsetlemming — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:13:08 +0000

Gonna go with the crowd and call you a twat for besmirching The Punisher. That game was great, I loved the combo system that, for once, encouraged you to play WELL instead of play FAST. It didn’t reset on time, but rather on you taking damage, so it shaped your play as a series of sneaky moves across the map, getting jumps on everyone you can, and torturing every guy left alone for a moment as you go. It certainly wasn’t the best thing ever, but for what it was, it was oh so damn good.

By: Captain Bland

Captain Bland — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:58:33 +0000

‘It is in fact loosely based on the books of Richard Marcinko, an ex-Navy Seal who has, we’re told, killed many men with his black ops training.’

I always find it disturbing when developers pick these projects. This man killed some real people and now we get to pretend we’re him, hurrah! I don’t think that games are incapable of handling wars or other conflicts in a tasteful manner, (And I’m aware that the film and publishing industry have been cashing in on this stuff for decades) but it’s still fairly distasteful to me. Does the extra revenue from fans of his books really outweigh the association with real-world violence? Instead of ‘loosely basing’ the game on his life, couldn’t they just make up a fictional character?

By: MrBejeebus

MrBejeebus — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:13:21 +0000

oh ok, mustve missed it, also, ARMA 2 HAS ARRIVED! :D

By: psyk

psyk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:17:52 +0000

They have already said the edit function vanishing is a bug with what ever there using for the site, think it was in the comments for a story awhile back though.

By: MrBejeebus

MrBejeebus — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:12:55 +0000

And bring back the bloody edit function!

By: MrBejeebus

MrBejeebus — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:11:51 +0000

I was quite excited by the look of Alpha Protocal, however it seems to just look like Mass Effect: Not In Space Though, sure they’re trying to make the story development different, but the end of the day, it’ll most likely have uninteractive environments and poor shooting gameplay. Prove me wrong though, I want it to work.

AvP looks good, Rogue Warrior I’m extremely secptical about, as i seem to remember reading an article in OPS2M in 2005/6 about it, I think thats when it was using UT3 though.

Oh and Rebellion should have just done a Rogue Trooper 2, I want to finish the story, that game was brilliant, if a little short lived, I bought it when RPS did the retrospective for it, I did that with a few games too.

Wow I’ve written alot…

By: Subject 706

Subject 706 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:09:43 +0000

Hm. The very mediocrity of most titles shown, makes yearn for a new video game crash.