Steve Ince at E3 (Project Delta)
 

Adventure game writer comin' atcha, new-skool!

Congrats Steve -

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/616/616853p1.html

It's an FPS, but anything written by forum regular, Sapphire Claw creator and top bloke Mr Ince deserves full respek't. :D

Props to Steve!

Nice, Steve's really getting the creative engine running. His own game announced and now story writer for this game. A lot of good things are happening very suddenly. :)

Wow! Good for him, and he's a really nice guy too - see sometimes the good guys DO win! Yea Steve! :D

FGM-Lyn

I have sworn off FPS forever but if anything could get me to play one this would be it. I would have to cheat my through it probably, in god mode most likely, but even if I have to do that, I might give it a shot. Way to go, Steve! Hope you are getting a bucket load of money from this that you can use to develop more AGs.



:)

Excellent to see Steve coming out of the other side of Revolution's downsizing with head held high. This time last year (roughly) things weren't looking that great.

Go Steve! :)

Can someone enlighten me by telling me what exactly a tactical first-person shooter is? Is it a type of game where a deep, interesting story can be told? Or is it similar to any old FPS? Heck, are there any FPS of any type that can actually make a use out of a great story teller like Steve? I'm not being sarcastic by the way. The last FPS I attempted to play was Duke Nukem 3D and that didn't feature anything resembling an interesting story.

It's one of them things like Operation Flashpoint, I think. Think a striving for realism and serious subject matter.

Mind you, I could be totally wrong.

Or something like SWAT, tactical shooter means just that, you still get too shoot people, but you actually have to use your little grey cells form time to time. :)

EDIT: Oops... GO STEVE! :)

Thanks for all the kind thoughts guys.

:) Steve, may I give you a big hug for being so accomplished?

(((((Steve)))))

It's not so much focused on 'total real life' as it is on developing strategies to successfully meet your given goals and also survive. It can take on various forms, like squad based, where you are in charge of a team of A.I. controlled teammates, taking advantage of each one's particular skill. Or it can be just you against the world, using the environment, your high-tech gadgets, and/or other things as tools to meet the mission objective.

Usually in tactical shooters, you DO NOT 'mindlessly' run and jump in and shoot anything that moves and ask questions later. Instead you scope out the area, consider things like enemy patrol patterns, assess potential threats, scout for cover, alternate routes, etc. You actually need to think and plan in real time before striking.

:) Think of the situation as a kind of puzzle to solve, but a very volatile, dynamic one.

Those apostrophes are there because you're thinking what I'm thinking? People seem to think that slower some how makes a game require more intelligence, and that having more severe consequences to dying means that you are more likely to succeed with a better strategy. That's just not the case, if anything most non-tactical FPS games are more complex, and require more technique, strategy and intelligence all while doing everything much faster. Sure most tactical shooters are more severe so if you screw up you'll die but isn't that more to do with consistancy and technique?
RPG/FPS hybrids can have the best stories. The only tactical FPS I've played with a story is probably Rainbow Six and all the rest of the series but the story was confined to out of gameply menus.

Aw, shucks...

But thanks. :)

Calling the sequences between missions in the Rainbow Six games a "story" is really pushing it, me thinks.


Congrats Steve on yet another great achievement. :)

Thanks Mattsius.

It's perhaps unnecessary, as I'm merely echoing the sentiment of a lot of other people, but well done Steve. It's nice to see things paying off for you (I hope)!