By Lewie Procter on August 17th, 2011 at 10:59 am.
Renegade Ops, or “Renegops” as probably no one but me will call it, the upcoming top-down arcade blast ‘em up from Avalanche Studios, has got itself a new video-trailer thing. I hope you like weapons and upgrade systems, because that’s what it is showing off:
And for good measure, have yourselves some extended gameplay footage too:
Looks like a good spot of fun to me. Fast paced, smashy, bashy, shooty, explodey action. Avalanche outdid themselves with the utterly wonderful Just Cause 2, and I intend to be first in line for Renegops.
It’s due on Steam some time next month, at a price of £9.99/€12.99/$14.99 for a single copy, or £19.99/€24.99/$29.99 for four copies. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Steam four pack with that tasty a discount before, so buddying up seems like a good idea to me.
17/08/2011 at 11:02 Okami says:
But does it have unlimited parachutes?
17/08/2011 at 11:06 Miodrag Kovachevic says:
They are going about it the wrong way. It should be DOUBLE machine guns, TRIPLE flamethrowers, QUADRUPLE rocket launchers and so on.
17/08/2011 at 11:08 The Sombrero Kid says:
looks sweeet.
17/08/2011 at 11:12 Tei says:
I watched a GiantBomb video about this game (was terrible.. I was use the airstrike, use the airstrike, use the airstrike!!). Aparently the map is giganteous, and you are more or less free to take missions in it, so it can be described like open-something. The visuals where great.
17/08/2011 at 13:08 ChainsawCharlie says:
I thought that QL wasn’t too bad. They were pressed for time. It managed to sell me the game.
17/08/2011 at 14:46 Tei says:
It was fun and informative. But if you have a airtrike with a cooldown, you sould use it as soon as posible to know what his area of effect is, how fast reload, etc… having such skill and not using it for like 15 min made me angry :D
17/08/2011 at 11:18 vodka and cookies says:
I hope they have gamepad support, twinstick shooters aren’t as fun with a keyboard/mouse.
17/08/2011 at 15:30 m3metix says:
Ummm… I’m certain it will have controller support given that Just Cause 2 had excellent controller support and this is built on the same engine by the same developers.
17/08/2011 at 11:22 arrjayjee says:
Just Cause 2 was amazing, and ensured these developers have my full support for whatever they want to do. I’ll pre-order this as soon as Steam will let me.
17/08/2011 at 11:35 LGM says:
you can already pre-order it on steam, in fact you can get a 4 pack of it for 30 bux right now.
17/08/2011 at 11:35 LGM says:
This is by far my most anticipated game of the year. Renegops (I love that BTW, calling it that from now on!) is going to be unbelievable. The Avalanche engine is second to none and will suit this type of game perfectly. Also, JC2 was modded like crazy, so we should see some really cool stuff in Renegops :D
17/08/2011 at 11:35 Eclipse says:
This game reminds me of Return Fire, and that’s a good thing.
18/08/2011 at 09:09 Stephen Roberts says:
I was only just saying to my friends in meatspace last month that Return Fire needed remaking. It’s really nice living in a coma world of my own creation.
17/08/2011 at 11:36 Teddy Leach says:
It’s OK, Lewie, I’ll call it Renegops too.
17/08/2011 at 11:49 RaytraceRat says:
No quadruple machine guns? meh….
Looks like a nice package of oldschool arcade fun.
17/08/2011 at 11:55 MonkeyMonster says:
Wheeeeeeee, much silliness.
17/08/2011 at 12:15 LarsBR says:
Reminded me of Speed Rumbler (Capcom!, 1986). I’m old.
17/08/2011 at 12:53 Echo Black says:
Looks like that “Naval Warfare” game.
17/08/2011 at 12:55 Dominic White says:
The developers have basically said that this is a modern update of Jackal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYzQhdIUDV0
That’s pretty great, actually.
17/08/2011 at 13:00 Kdansky says:
Just Cause 2 was utterly terrible, but this looks neat.
17/08/2011 at 15:18 PatrickSwayze says:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/112/480/OpoQQ.jpg?1302279568
17/08/2011 at 16:34 clumsyandshy says:
I second that. This looks great while JC2 was not.
17/08/2011 at 14:42 _PixelNinja says:
*This game is brought to you by Michael Bay Pyrotechnics*
17/08/2011 at 15:57 shoptroll says:
This looks fun. I’d be willing to throw down on a 4 pack if anyone’s interested.
17/08/2011 at 17:57 G_Man_007 says:
I’m getting hints of SWIV with this one…
17/08/2011 at 19:19 DrGonzo says:
I watched it and thought, ehhh it looks alright I suppose. Then you mentioned that they are the developer of Just Cause 2 and now I’m very interested!
18/08/2011 at 09:19 Stephen Roberts says:
Watching that gameplay video, It almost seems funny that you are in a car. I wonder, will the limitation of not being able to strafe be about the only thing to add difficulty to what is basically a speed tanking blow em up?