Weekend Deal -- Blacklight: Tango Down

[jakonovski]

Anyone else bought this? It's an Eastern European military shooter. Janky in many ways, but surprisingly playable.  

It's got a backdrop of you being one of two factions fighting over a futuristic but fucked up city, where all the text is in Russian. Kind of reminds me of DMZ, but that's probably only because I'm reading it atm. Unreal 3 engine so it's rather pretty. Single player campaign is nonexistent, just a bunch of solo or coop missions on modified mp maps. Multiplayer attempts a Modern Warfare kind of thing with 70 levels and weapon customization everywhere. It's addictive, but the bad part is that none of the stats are explained and I've been too lazy to look it up on the internet yet.

Gameplay feels like CS of old, with added high tech gimmicks like x-ray vision and pixelation grenades. However nobody plays anything except TDM and the maps can be bad. I don't predict a very long life span for it. It's also originally an XBLA game and has achievements for both MS and Steam at the same time, which is weird. There's no dedicated servers but at 16(?) players it runs well enough.

 

[Engels]

Can you describe the jankiness? Or did you mean the bad maps and the unexplained stats? Because sometimes folks say janky when they really mean 'I'm a closed minded dolt that can only digest prefab over-produced american pap'. Just sayin.

[jakonovski]

The two you mentioned and other things like messy UI, thickly accented voiceovers, arrow keys not working without .ini tweaking, etc. Nothing major but occasionally will annoy the crap out of you, esp. if you're losing.

Edit: that said, there are some really nice touches in there, like the pixel 'nades I mentioned and how your helmet bluescreens and reboots when you get caught in an emp field (ie. flashbang)