Bumping this with a suggestion.
TWI, please help Ground Branch get released on Steam. I think this would be a great project for you guys.
[url]http://www.blackfootstudios.com/[/URL]
PC gaming is in desperate need of a new tactical CQB shooter (the last one, SWAT 4, was released in 2005), and for years Ground Branch was thought to become exactly that game. But BlackFoot Studios have two problems: they can't find a publisher and they don't have a dev team. Right now it's just two guys working on the game sporadically. As written in the OP, these guys worked on the original Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games so they know what they're doing. They have an amazing and solid concept, lots of great ideas and a good design philosophy... but with the way things are going the game will never be released.
Raven Shield, SWAT 4 and (to a lesser extent) Ghost Recon are all great CQB shooters that are a lot of fun in co-op while on TS3. It's a rush to stack against a door, pop a flashbang, storm inside, set up points of dominance and sweep the entire room
within three seconds. That **** never gets boring. Controlled chaos. One of my favourite things to do in multiplayer. But while these games are great, they don't have the bells and whistles that a good modern tactical shooter ought to have (iron sights, freelook etc), so tactical CQB fans have to 'make do' with these old games... this kind of game simply isn't made any more.
TWI, if you help publish Ground Branch, you can fill that void and make a lot of tactical gamers verrrrry happy. You have already done great things to support the 'little guys' and that's one of the reasons why we love you, so please consider this for a future project!
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