CFD!'s Rob Thomas reviews the Winter Uprising sequel to one of the best received Xbox Live Indie Games retro-shooters:
"I only recently got hip to the neon-hued, retro-flavored goodness that are radiangames’ offerings on the Indie Games marketplace. Indeed, while my colleague in arms, Rob Rich, has played through all of their other releases to date, my only hands-on experience with their work has been with Fluid, released this past October.
"In preparation for reviewing Crossfire 2, I felt the need to at least be acquainted with its predecessor, so I could fairly judge it in context. After sampling the original Crossfire and getting a feel for its two-sided, battlefield-flipping attack gimmick (which was already pretty cool to begin with), I think I can safely go on record as saying that even the smallest, most incremental changes can make an old game feel totally new all over again."
Just what do we know about the the sequel to SmileGate’s surprise hit?
At the CROSSFIRE Vision Summit held in Shanghai during the China Joy 2016 conference, Smilegate revealed that Remedy is responsible for developing the story mode for the upcoming CROSSFIRE 2. The whole team here at Remedy is incredibly excited to be an key partner in developing the future of the CROSSFIRE franchise.
Well this is disappointing, at least for me. I think the Remedy we knew is gone.
The Remedy we knew was mostly gone after they released Max Payne 2 in 2003. After that the Remedy name was used by Microsoft to sell Xbox consoles but that did not work out so well as Microsoft had hoped it would.
Alan Wake was a good game. Quantum Break, haven't played it...
The main problem with Remedy is that they take way too much time to make/launch a game.
I've enjoyed the Max Payne series, Alan Wake and Quantum Break. I think Remedy is great. I hope we will get more games like those from them in the future.
@InMyOpinion
Quick to sell the max payne ip to rockstar/Take-Two you mean.
for sony enthusiasts they died, for everyone else they are still a respectable game developer. crossfire is a windows game that has earned over 1 billion dollars in china.
CrossFire is China’s biggest Free-to-Play video game in history, helping publisher Tencent Games to record earnings every year. CrossFire also helped turned South Korea developer Smilegate into a major studio, right from the brink of closure (if the game failed in China). Development for CrossFire 2 started in 2013, and today, The9 announced it has signed the publishing rights for China.
This actually looks pretty cool. Slightly off topic, but kind of reminds me of audiosurf.
It's amazing just how much the customizable upgrade system adds to the formula. Bravo, radiangames. Bravo.
Okay so now all the indie games are taking on this techno rave colorblind. I liked it at first, but it's starting to not be special...
Had some fun with the first, perhaps I'll check it out.