SonyRumors dives into what SOCOM Tactical Strike 2 For the PS Vita might be like and why Sony, along with Slant Six Games needs to make this game. What features would you like to see? Share your thoughts with us in our comment section and poll.
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I know, why do they keep letting slant6 ruin popular franchises. To be fair, the socoms for psp were pretty good but their console games have been awful.
its like they want the vita to fail with all of these terrible devs....
then they're the ones complaining as to why people are not buying the games....
Out of all the developers that have went down over the years...how the hell is Slant Six still around
It probably would have been overshadowed by Killzone Mercenary if it were to launch this year.
Slant Six Games initiates temporary layoffs to trim operating costs, hopes to rehire all affected developers.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and Galactic Reign developer Slant Six Games has initiated a round of temporary layoffs, the company has confirmed to GamesIndustry International. The studio hopes to rehire all affected staffers once new projects or funding has been secured
It's sad when these things happen, but Raccoon City was a pile of crap. And I mean in every facet of the game, from the gameplay, animation, to the story, to the sound, etc. None of these guys are getting away with blaming that terrible game on another team member. So these guys are not gonna have an easy time finding work if their potential new employers play RE: ORC. They should leave that out of the resume.
I don't like when studios lay off their developers, and I feel bad for these people who are now out of a job. But at the same time, Slant Six is fucking horrible. They butchered Socom and they butchered Resident Evil. They have zero talent, so I'm really not surprised to see this.
This is how the game and movie industries work. Layoffs are so common and inevitable that I highly doubt any one of them aren't ready for it.
Harsh, but sadly true...
They produced so much worthless garbage that they decided to change the company name and emigrate to mobile gaming.
Wow, even typing that out seemed pathetic!
Oh wow, I didn't even realize that I confused the two! Thanks for the correction, porkChop!
Both Slant Six and Nihilistic are the anus' of the gaming industry. I guess the question now is who layered the kitchen walls with the most crap?
I agree that they did a number on Socom but not as bad as Zipper Interactive. Zipper turned S4 into an abomination. XP, Snap to Cover, Small maps etc.
Siliconera: "The rumors are true, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City developer Slant Six was working on a Star Wars game back in 2010. Lucasarts hired Slant Six to make Star Wars Battlefront Online for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360."
Haha, I was just going to say the same thing
I'd rather have no Battlefront sequel then a crappy one by the worse developer out there
Besides it's not really Battlefront 3 is it
Battlefront's good name went untarnished. That is a win.
Now if we could just keep the Banjo Kazooie, Crash, and Spyro IPs away from their perspective owners....
Slant Six must have a checklist of popular game franchises that they're out to ruin....
Socom............Check!
Resident Evil....Check!
Star Wars........
The concept art showed Jedi in the game. I really wish these developers would stop focusing on Jedi. Battlefront isn't supposed to be about Jedi it's supposed to be about the soldiers and their battles.
Also Socom Confrontation wasn't a terrible terrible game. Once they patched it it became a fun game. But before that it was bug ridden.
Well Jedi can be in the game. As long as balance exists. Not godlike superheros, but soldiers that are not immune to death. They should be able to die.
This works out very well in one Jedi Knight Jedi Academy mod with Jedi being balanced out to same level as soldiers. Personally I believe its gone a bit to far in the latest builds, but that's just me.
Check out Moviebattles 2 mod for JKA on Youtube or something like that. I actually get the feeling to play as another class other than Jedi in this mod without instant death fears.
Jedi in SWBF2 were awesome. So were regular soldier battles. Don't see whats wrong with having both
It's funny, I literally have SWBF1 in my PS2 running right now. I just got done serving the empire on Rhen Var: Citadel... The map were sweet on SWBF1, still pretty good on 2... They still need to make SWBF3 please.
If I remember correctly I seen video of gameplay on Endor maybe 1 1/2 yrs. ago, I think it was Pandemic's near completed version? (might've been slant six's but that don't seem right, oh well) It looked sweet, you could hop in a X-wing & shoot some Tie Fighters down then dock up in space!!! Looks aren't everything so maybe it didn't make for a focused game. You're right also Slant-six has mucked up quite a few good franchises LoL...
Tactical strike was a good game with some flaws, I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel on Vita. I think I would rather see something more along the lines of fireteam bravo. It would need to go back to ftb2's gameplay though, none of that regenerating health and linear gameplay like ftb3.
Meh, average series, needs to just die. When was the last AA quality game that was spawned from this series?
hows about we forget about vita and just make a good socom for ps3 like the ps2 games i would love a socom remake on ps3! socom in the ps2 days was the best online game ever no matter how many glitches it had still nothing today even comes close to it.
Unit 13 is a great game, I think Socom lovers will love this game!
I love Socom like most of its die hard followers, but I think slant six and zipper have not made an excellent Socom this generation on consoles. Confrontation was good, but not great, and the Socom 4 was okay.
IMO Socom hasn't had the critical acclaim since the PS2 days and developers need to reassess what they need to do to bring it to the Vita to make it a worthy purchase. Of course fans will buy it, but Socom has never really been a Blockbuster seller, but they need to find a way to make it appeal to the masses as we realize games aren't cheap and they have to make a profit. Hopefully if Sony decides to revisit the franchise they can make it worthwhile for themselves and the consumer.