Signal Ops

[Diego]

Anyone played this? I'm giving my best to like this game, I love the idea! but it's so clunky and awkward and difficult.

 

I had two bugs during the short amount of time playing the tutorials. I think the fact that you control an animated model with a camera on top doesn't help much, you jerk all over the place, clip through things, get stuck on things. It makes Thief: deadly shadows feel smooth and fluid!

 

Besides bugs, there's so much stuff going on at the same time it's overwhelming. You control a guy that moves to a monitor central, there you see three monitors, each with a character you can control. Each with a different set of actions and skills and responsibilities. And everything coordinated to complete a mission. And then there's the whole radio signal gameplay! phew, talk about a learning curve.

 

Anyway, I'm still hopeful that I can learn the ropes on this game and enjoy it. The game already has my respect for being so original.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeqHKG1fNS4

Edited March 11, 2014 by Diego

[Mr. Tibbs]

It's pretty neat. The multi-perspective squad gameplay concept goes back to an Amiga game called Hired Guns. There was an attempt at an Unreal 1 era game that was basically finished but never saw release since the team couldn't secure a publisher after Psygnosis left the PC scene.

 

[Diego]

Ah, so that's their inspiration! at least on this multi-perspective aspect.