Renegade Ops [PSN]

[warmachine]

Sega and Avalanche Studios (Just Cause) announced the coop military shooter Renegade Ops for PSN and XBL.

- single player campaign
- 2 player split screen
- 4 player online coop



The effects look stunning and it seems to be quite a lot of fun!
I'll keep an eye on it!

[OmniStalgic]

Looks like a game David Jaffe would've made...

[Jaedin]

It made me miss the old "Desert Strike" and "Jungle Strike" games seeing the helicopter part. Now I think about it, it would be cool to see a new one that looks like that

[LaLiLuLeLo]

Looks like a game David Jaffe would've made...

you mean it vaguely reminds you of Calling All Cars? ¬_¬

[KRA]

GameTrailers.E3 2011: Vehicular Chaos Interview HD

[Luis]

It seems nice.

[KRA]

GIANTBOMB.Quick Look: Renegade Ops

The creators of Just Cause give Brad and Vinny yet another beautiful reason to blow stuff up.

it looks great and it looks fun. i think i will pre order it tomorrow...

[masteratt]

Woot, pre-ordering PSN game is kicksass. I just pre-ordered mine, looks great.

I don't get the PLAY offer though. If you buy all those games, without PLUS, it'll cost you £42. To get one PSN game, Heist, for free?...:/
It makes sense if you wanted all those games anyway though I guess.

Anyway, the theme that comes with the pre-order is neat (you also get extra characters to use in-game).

[Bliss]

I will buy it, I love games with fast and furious game-play and this kind of view. I loved Dead Nation, ok it's different, but I'm pretty sure I will love this one as well.

[KRA]

Playstation.Blog: Renegade Ops – Let’s Talk About Upgrades


Hello again, I’m pleased to be able to drop back onto the PS Blog to supply you with more information about our PSN PLAY bound title Renegade Ops. So I’ve talked previously about the story, the characters and the vehicles, but now it’s time to give you the lowdown on the upgrades you’ll be able to pimp your vehicle of choice with.
First though, allow me to give you the first exclusive look at the latest trailer which surprisingly enough shows off some of these upgrades.

The better you are at the game – in other words the more enemies you destroy, stunts you pull (smashing your way off cliffs, bridges, through buildings etc) and collectables you grab – the quicker you’ll reach the next level, and in this game levels mean prizes…well, upgrade points. So, how can you spend these points? Well you’ll have the choice of three skill trees to spread your points over, so you can customise your character depending on how you best play the game. The only limit to this is the amount of upgrades you can have active at one time; the higher your level, the more upgrades you can equip.
What I’ll do below is detail the upgrades you’ll have access to, and then give you an example using my current level 19 Roxy build.

All Character Upgrades

Defence

Spare Parts: Chance of spawning health pick-ups from your vehicle when hit by explosive damage
Nitro: Double tap turbo button for nitro speed boost, also extinguishes fire if used when burning
Second Chance: Death is delayed by 10 seconds so you can find a health pick up to stay alive. Second chance only triggers once per life
Extra Life: Increases the numbers of loves you start each mission with by 1
Hardened Hull: Maximum health increased and health received from pick-ups increased
Auto Repair: Automatically regenerate health when low

Offence

Auto Reload: Automatically generate ammo for secondary weapon over time
Ammo Surplus: Secondary ammo pick-ups give more ammo than normal
Advanced Arms: Rocket launcher – homing rockets, Railgun – shorter charge time, Flame Thrower – Damage increased
Magazine Size – Basic: Secondary weapon magazine size increased
Magazine Size – Elite: Secondary weapon magazine size greatly increased

Now it starts to get different, with each character having unique upgrades, as follows:

Roxy Upgrades

Special Ability: Rocket Strike – Drops beacons that are hit by a rain of rockets from the sky, causing area damage.

Offence

Rocket Launcher Kit: Start Every life with Rocket Launcher and some ammo equipped

Tactical

Efficiency – Basic: Rocket Strike cooldown reduced
Efficiency – Elite: Rocket Strike cooldown greatly reduced
Auto Strike: Rocket Strike automatically targets and attempts to directly hit enemies in area
Bombardment – Basic: Rocket Strike duration and radius increased
Bombardment – Elite: Rocket Strike duratinhjvb hjlkjhnkkljw what the fuck am i doing?!
just click the link to see the rest.

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btw why while puting image into the post now it makes only a very small icon?
i mean is there other option? becasue i think i have seem somebody had a biger picture in his post?

[solidsnakejej]

There are two options, put the image in img tags manually [img][/img], The other is hit the A/A icon(top left) it will show you the image, double click the image and it should bring up a dialog box to set the size.

The image option puts your image automatically as an attachment.

[masteratt]

This game is pretty damn awesome if anyone was wondering.

I recommend playing on Hard difficulty, it kicks your ass good for an hour or so but once you get used to it it's not so bad (and way more fun may I add!!) and you level up ridiculously fast (more XP on hard). I'm only on Lvl3 now and my character is 30+.

I restarted (ran out of lives) the first mission about 5 times, second about twice but good thing is you keep the XP over deaths so only down side is doing the part you done before dying again, which it ain't too bad considering the whole being Lvl30 at lvl3 awesomeness.

And hats off to Avalanche Studios, they are one of my favourite developers this gen. They just know how to make blowing shit up fun.

[Bsack]

Yeah I'm looking to buy this game as well damn it!!! I wanna know what people think of From Dust though.

[KRA]

i am with @masteratt here. this game is fucking great. maybe the best arcade style shooter i've played.
this game is one chaotic crazy mayhem. there is so much going on the screen that it is sometimes hard to follow...
when at the same moment everything explodes and i am leveling up (which always the first second got me thinking
that some shit hit me hard) and on the bottom of the screen there is a big sign scrolling that i just beated masteratt
score it really feels overwhelming but in a good way and the animations is great...

[masteratt]

screen there is a big sign scrolling that i just beated masteratt score

*shakes fist*

[KRA]

Giantbomb: Renegade Ops Review 5/5

Renegade Ops is a pedestrian name for such an absurdly explosive game as this new overhead downloadable shooter from Sega and Avalanche Studios, the Just Cause guys. It's like someone played a whole lot of Jackal back in the '80s and then, sometime recently, figured out the only way that game could be improved is with experience points, a skill tree, physics, and four-player co-op. Luckily for us, whoever had that idea was right on the money. This game is a blast.

It's probably not a surprise that Renegade Ops is so much fun purely because of the way it plays. The cars have low traction and an almost perfect feeling of weight to them, allowing you to kick out your back end as you skid around corners, spin a quick 180, or just do donuts forever if that's your thing. The game uses dual-joystick controls, so while you're sliding around every which way, you can shoot every which other way at the same time, allowing you to dodge around the smaller vehicular enemies and run circles around the larger tanks, blasting them constantly. Everything about the feel of the combat, particularly the fully upgraded regular machine gun and add-on weapons like rockets and a railgun, is solid and hard-hitting and really satisfying.

The game looks darn good, considering it's downloadable and uses an overhead perspective. There's so much height to some of the maps, as you drive through canyons and over hills and such, that the terrain closer to the camera blurs out with a depth-of-field effect. More importantly, everything explodes real nice. This is a game about nonstop, total destruction of everything around you, so it's a good thing Avalanche knows how to do fire and explosions with such style. All the carnage is rendered by the same technology that powered Just Cause 2, which somehow makes it all the more ridiculous since here it takes place amid ant-sized soldiers and armored vehicles the size of Matchbox cars.

Renegade Ops sure doesn't take itself very seriously, casting you as a team of maverick operators who go rogue to stop a sinister army led by the cackling bald psychopath Inferno. The game makes its over-the-top tone evident right upfront, when your hard-nosed CO literally hurls his fistful of medals at a room of lily-livered UN diplomats and declares his intention to get this mess taken care of himself. It's all guitar riffs and incendiaries from there. One mission objective that sticks out in my memory is simply, "Get out of there." Another one urges you to outrun the blast from a nuclear warhead and basically just has you driving in a straight line as fast as you can. It's that kind of game.

Proving that just about any style of game can accommodate RPG mechanics, there's persistent leveling and a talent tree used to good effect here. You can pick from four playable characters, each with a different-looking vehicle that handles more or less the same. They have different special abilities, though, and a unique skill tree that just distributes the same set of useful abilities in a different order. At first I couldn't figure out a reason anyone would play a character other than the spunky girl with the giant airstrike, but as the game gets tougher there are cases where other abilities, like the heavy guy's thick armored shield, certainly come in handy too. Each character has discrete experience so you level them separately, and you can mix and match them throughout a playthrough on each mission, or even take them into co-op that goes up to four players online. The frame rate can bog down a bit in two-player splitscreen or when four players are just going crazy with their weapons online, but them's the breaks.

You could plow through the nine-mission campaign here in three or four hours if you just barreled through it, but there's a number of side objectives in each mission that you might not finish off the first time, given that the main objectives are timed. Also, if you're into achievements and trophies, there's one for going back and beating every level on the considerably more difficult Hardcore mode, which you can do either alone or with friends. I'm not usually big on going back and replaying games for that sort of reason, but the core action is so much fun here that I'll take any excuse to play through this one again. The difficulty doesn't scale to the number of players, making the normal setting feel like a breeze for a team of four, so in that sense, Hardcore is probably the best way to play in a group anyway.

Renegade Ops feels like the model of a fantastic downloadable game designed to the strengths of digital distribution. It's big, loud, sort of dumb, and a ton of fun because it focuses on one thing, and does that one thing exceedingly well. For $15, what more do you want?

if me and @masteratt failed to sell u this game
maybe giantbomb will.
but seriously just buy this game. especially if you have plus as it is cheaper then...

[warmachine]

I bought the game too and its just sooooooo addicting!!!

I'm also playing on Hardcore and I couldnt manage the first stage yet but I'm already level 10 (or so) and I'm playing the stage over and over again!

Buy it! BUY IT!!!

If somebody wants to send me a friendsrequest for online-coop: PSN: Son_of_Oden

[KRA]

yeah i am also playing hardcore and after accidentally beating @masteratt score at stage two
i went back to the stage one and i was playing it over and over again but not only i didn't beat his score
i only manage to finish it maybe twice without dying... but although i kind of suck i keep getting back to this game
so it is addicting... and fun. the only problem i have is that you can skip the movies but you can't skip the 'in-game'
cinematics... which is kind of annoying.

[warmachine]

Yeah...this also annoys me quite a lot.

Which character do you prefer? I couldnt find my favourite yet, I only think that the shield of Armand sucks A LOT!
And I played with Diz, but havent touched the others yet.

[KRA]

i play with the roxy? foxy? well air strike girl... and other than that i was playing only once with shield guy
and i didn't like it neither but it all depends on the upgrades i think. masteratt seems to play with that guy...