I really enjoyed the demo. Can't wait for this to go on sale!

Huh, nice review. Thanks. Makes me wish even more the game were $10 instead of $15. I sure wish someone would release some data on how well games sell at those two different price points and whether publishers ultimately make more revenue using one or the other.

Yep I'll add it to the many others on the "Maybe It'll Drop Below 800 Points" list.

The full game sounds as good as the demo was to play. The local co-op oddity doesn't bother me since I rarely play couch co-op, so I'm glad to hear the online is pretty sweet. I'd be all over this if it wasn't for the price, but once it drops down a bit I'll snag it up in a second.

How long is the campaign?

@kevinclough The nine campaign missions range in length from ten minutes to half an hour. Most take 15 to 20 minutes. It all depends on how many other players you have with you. Four players can get through a level much more quickly than a single player. I would say the campaign is about two to three hours long. If you decide to max out your vehicle stats, beat the campaign on hardcore, or beat the game with each vehicle, you'll greatly increase the game's replay value.

Since Renegade Ops is a twin stick shooter with a concentration on upgrading your vehicles and posting a high score, I would say it's easily worth the fifteen bucks, because on top of score hunting and stat maxing, the game is a blast to play.

I find that most twin stick shooters and beat em' ups have an outstanding replay value if they are done right. Sometimes you just want to kill about twenty minutes or so and these types of games are great for that.

1200 Points is pricing this game into oblivion IMO. It just doesn't seem to do anything that other 800 Points twin-stick shooters don't also do.

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I don't remember for sure, but I think I paid $10 for Super Stardust HD, which is still my favorite twin-stick shooter ever. I can't even begin to guess how many hours I sank into that, but I think at one point I cracked the top thousand or two on the global scoreboard… before being steadily knocked further and further down to whatever lowly and abysmal position I now occupy, which I don't know since I haven't played in forever. But that game is my benchmark for twin-stick value, and I can't imagine Renegade Ops being 50% more valuable than SSHD.

If and when there's a sale, though, I'll nab it.

Thanks for sharing the campaign length. 2-3 hrs seems a little too short for $15. I don't really care about leaderboards so that never gets me to replay a game. Maybe the multiple difficulty levels would get me to play more than once though.

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Yeah, same here about leaderboards. Not sure why SSHD was different — there was just something about its arcade-style play that was tons of fun to keep playing over and over, and the co-op was really good too. Nothing about the Renegade Ops demo made it feel like something I'd keep playing over and over again, though. I'm sure it'd be tons of fun while it lasted, just not $15 worth of fun.

There's a lot of polish here. It feels like a much bigger game than it is. The graphics are truly outstanding, lots of detail in the little models.

Driving through huts never gets old.

I'd also like to see the stats on the 800 vs. 1200 pricing models. I don't feel that people truly realize that 1200 increases the price by 50%. And, it was about 2 years ago when almost all arcade games adopted this new price point (thanks to Braid which was the tipping point). It's not like when the $50 game got hiked to $60 5 years ago, which was only a 20% increase. Anyway, thanks to these 50% increases, I seriously curb my xbla buying habits now. This game would be a day one purchase for me at 800, but 1200 - not a chance. By the time it drops to 800, I will have moved on to something else. -1 buy for this developer.

I think for a 1200 Points game to be successful, it needs to either be a highly-anticipated sequel/port, or represent an outstanding value. Otherwise, I know for sure a lot of those games bomb and/or have tiny online communities.

I picked it up and have been fully enjoying the couch co-op with a good friend. The graphics are fantastic and add a lot to the experience (much like Laura Croft). The diverging split screen is a nice feature; we try to stay together on the same screen as much as possible but it's nice to have the option to take off in opposite directions to handle different tasks.

And as others here have said, sometime a game is just so damn fun and satisfying that you're happy to just keep blowing stuff up!

Can you play split screen and then go onto Xbox live to meet another 2 players?

Or can only ONE player go online per Xbox 360?

The Co-optimus database has this info for you under the section "Local + Online Play". Unfortunately split screen plus online is not supported. This game still looks really good, but this is a deal breaker for lots of people.