New Raven Squad Screens, Playable At E3

Nicholas "bapenguin" Puleo May 20th, 2009 at 8:04 AM

Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger is an upcoming FPS/RTS hybrid game for the PC and Xbox 360. Southpeak Interactive has released a bunch of new screens of the game, showing off the various ways to play. At any time players can switch from a first person view to a traditional top down RTS view for complete control.

Raven Squad is set to feature a two player co-op mode throughout the game's campaign, which could make for some interesting play tactics. The possibilities of teamwork with one player in first person view and the other taking a commanders overview look is really powerful. Imagine being able to call out enemy locations to your teammate before he even sees them. Sounds like a lot of fun to me.

The game is set to be playable at E3 next month, so there should be some decent impressions when the time comes. For now enjoy the handful of screens we've got.

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7 Total Reader Comments

smurphster at 06:28 AM on 5.20.2009

looks pretty neat... can both players be in 1st person? i think i'd get bored as the RTS player all the time. too bad i won't ever play it due to lack of splitscreen and a backlog of games my wife won't play

TheReaperCooL at 06:46 AM on 5.20.2009

This game is being developed in my country, Hungary. Now the guys there said that we can Beta-test it. I signed in for the Beta-test, and they called me by phone. I answered a few questions, and they said "Okay, then we will call you when you need to test it". They never called me again..........

If I had gone there I would've said This will fail badly if it won't have a Co-operative mode. And it has! And I hope the game is very good, because we Hungarians can make fine RTS games, but not FPS ones. We'll see

smurphster at 07:37 AM on 5.20.2009

i guess you didn't make the cut

i'm sure they'll be doing more testing before release. usually studios will bring gamers into the studio (which is why they look locally) for "play testing" which is when the game is pretty polished but they want fresh eyes on it. they basically watch you play the game and take notes as to where you get confused, lost, or utterly fail. those notes help them make the game flow better and keep it tough but not too tough that you're dying all the time. they're not looking for bugs anymore, they're looking at the enjoyment and playability factors.

bigDinyomouth at 08:21 AM on 5.20.2009

thats cool! I dind't know this game has co-op. I was skiming through igns article and didnt see co-op mentioned once. Good thing it does! I have to check this out!

TheReaperCooL at 09:46 AM on 5.20.2009

smurphster I could make it, but I'm the "Perfect Gamer"
This was the conversation (well, part of it). He asks (Q) and I answer (A)
Q How long have you been playing games?
A Since the age of 2 (Contra rulz!)

Q What games do you like?
A I like all kind of games

Q Does graphics mean a lot to you?
A Nope, I only see the gameplay value

Q If the controls are odd, what do you say?
A It doesn't matter, if I want to play the game I will learn the controls

He asked some more, but this was the main thing I guess. As you can see I gave the perfect answers for these question, and maybe they tought "This is a Perfect Gamer, no matter what we give to him he'll like it." Well THAT's not true

smurphster at 10:35 AM on 5.20.2009

lol... i'm sure they want constructive criticism rather than "this rox..." when all you're doing is dying and shooting air.

any idea how many candidates there were? is gaming pretty big in hungary (probably a silly question)?

TheReaperCooL at 11:00 AM on 5.20.2009

Gaming is big, but people mostly play with CS, WoW and NFS. Seriously noone plays with normal, "intelligent" games. BTW I would say what the flaws are for the game, but they didn't see this. AND I've seen in a place (where they advertised the Beta-test) that ALL of the people said "I'll go in and say this sucks, and the game will never get released!!!".
Obviously I would have been the best candidate, but now it doesn't matters.