Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Trickstar Games has risen from the ashes of Transmission Games (developers of fun shooty plane games Heroes of the Pacific and Heroes Over Europe) and they’re intent on producing more aerial combat, this time with JASF (Jane’s Advanced Strike Fighters), which will be published by Evolved Games. It does sound pretty fancy, with 2-4 man co-op for the campaign, and 16-player online multiplayer, with a bunch of different contemporary aircraft, all hosted in a 65,000km terrain. The site claims that the game will hit this summer, but I guess we’ll wait and see.

Bombastic strategy-FPS hybrid Raven Squad is set for release on the 11th of August, and to celebrate that fact Evolved Games have released a cheese-tastic movie-style trailer, which sets the scene for this unusual take on the jungle man-shoot with some troubling dialogue. There might be a top-down strategy tactics and co-op cleverness in here, but for now they’re focusing on the explosions, of which there are many. The game proper looks moderately entertaining, thanks to the way the action swings between strategy and twitch run-n-gun, so perhaps we’ll take a closer look when it hits. In the meantime, go examine the action with your eyes.
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