Signal Ops - Tactical Espionage (Commandos + Hidden & Dangerous)

[TychoCelchuuu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=JSV3ci8uxHw

Signal Ops is "multiple-perspective first-person tactical espionage game." You work for a shady clandestine organization, and you are in charge of carrying out missions for that organization. More specifically, you command a squad of specialists as they carry out the mission. You sit in the control post and monitor your agents through first-person cameras. Communication with your agents depends on the radio, but the radio is heavy and the battery lasts about thirty seconds, so you have to rely on the Bolt agent to lug the radio around and plug it in. With the rest of your motley crew, you will be charged with blowing up bridges, attacking tanks, infiltrating enemy bases, planting evidence, and so on.



Combat and stealth are the two main features of Signal Ops. Often you'll want to stay hidden, either to get the upper hand in a fight or to carry out your dastardly deeds. With six agent types to choose from and relative freedom in how you choose to approach each mission the goal seems to be to let you build and command a squad to get around the various obstacles the game throws at you. Hopefully it will steer away from the Commandos-esque "find the right solution" thing that infects some of these games.



Your combat specialist, the Shield agent, is great for straight up fights, whereas the Scope agent is more useful for players who prefer sniping. There's also the Demo agent who blows things up and the Wrench agent who can pick locks, lock doors to delay enemies, and so on.



The game is being made by Space Bullet Dynamics Corporation who you have to give credit to for that name, I guess. The game will support single player and coop with up to 2 other people (that's 3 total) via LAN, split screen, and online, in any combination. It will have gamepad support and yes those voices in the videos are placeholder voices.



Stuff

• Game Website
• Signal Ops on Steam Greenlight
• The Developer's twitter. They don't tweet a goddamn thing.
• YouTube channel that sometimes posts videos.
• Preview on Indie Statik
• Short writeup on Rock Paper Shotgun
• Random gushing by PC Gamer
• The game's IndieDB page as if anyone gives a fuck
  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=OeqHKG1fNS4

[juv3nal]

Saw this randomly going through stuff on greenlight way back and I voted for it, but practically, I feel like controlling multiple dudes would be too complicated playing single player. Coop looks promising, but I don't really play that much multiplayer stuff on pc.

[osmosisch]

Gosh that artstyle is just gorgeous.

 

Not sure about the control though, I have bad memories of getting completely swamped by Space Hulk and this looks like it might be even more complex.