Ripten Preview: Section 8 Solves Three of Your Favorite FPS's Problems

Ripten Writes:

They're not calling themselves a "Halo Killer" but it seems that many of the main features in Section 8 were created in response to what annoyed them, and probably annoy you, about established FPS franchises like Halo and Battlefield.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

The last thing this game wants to be associated with is anything "Halo killer". This looks like a poor clone of Halo already with even poorer graphics than Halo 3. What are developers thinking these days? This is the last mediocre/shovel ware type of FPS the 360 needs.

They've shown barely any game play and everything from the trailer to the pics have all been either CGI or bullshots.

[evrfighter]

If this were to compared with anything. It reminds me of crysis as someone below me stated.

[ChozenWoan]

Ten years ago there was a cool FPS/TPS with huge indoor/outdoor terrain, jetpacks, vehicles, plenty of deployables, plenty of char customization, and my favorite... mods.

To this day I haven't found a game that matches what Tribes did for the FPS/TPS genre. Warhark is great and is about as close as I've found, but it's still not on the same level as the original Tribes.

Hopefully, this game will bring a lot of the best of Tribes features back into the mainstream, heck maybe even expand upon it in some ways. However I am reserving judgment until I see some actual gameplay.

[morganfell]

Ripten pimping a game? If they recommend it then the game already has an issue.

[ShabzS]

pls stop using the term halo killer... my god every fps gets hyped to be made a halo killer. coz odst could actually be the next halo killer.. or halo suicide if u will

[HDgamer]

It's multiplatform and well they look like the suits from crysis.

[DelbertGrady]

I thought the trailer looked really cool, and I'm interested in seeing some gameplay from it.

[fjtorres]

...there's a big catch: it's published by Southpeak.
And Southpeak has a track record of taking promising games and shoveling thm out the door unfinished and needing massive patching.
I guess their philosophy is the game ships when the budget allocation dries up, whether its ready or not...

Section 8 itself seems to be stealing very liberally from the STARSHIP TROOPERS novel, which is a *great* thing. But until it ships and we see how buggy it is we won't know if its any good...

Caveat emptor!

[FragMnTagM]

Will wait for the demo.

[DragonWarrior_4]

There is a game that already takes care of these problem and its been out for a while now. Its called Warhawk, and its 10 times better then Halo.

[DelbertGrady]

Lol.