Bang! Gunship Elite Preview
We take an extended look at Red Storm Entertainment's latest game, Bang! Gunship Elite, and detail what you can expect to find when this space combat shooter releases later this summer.
Since it was founded in 1996, Red Storm Entertainment has built its reputation on highly realistic covert-ops games - such as Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear. The company has since expanded the scope of its games with releases like Force 21, a real-time strategy game focusing on a possible war between China and the US set in the immediate future, and more recently Shadow Watch, a stylized turn-based strategy game with visual elements borrowed from Warner Brothers' Batman and Superman animated television shows. Red Storm's latest release will be the company's furthest departure from the norm yet. It's called Bang! Gunship Elite, a space shooter which is unlike any game released in the genre in recent memory.
Bang! Gunship Elite is actually not Red Storm's first space-based game. The developer-publisher had been working on a capitol-ship simulator earlier this year called UFS Vanguard. The game looked nearly complete when Red Storm demonstrated it to us a few months ago. However, for reasons not yet made public, UFS was suddenly cancelled, and the team was disbanded and sent to work on other projects, making Bang! Red Storm's first entry into the space race. The game was on display for the first time at Red Storm's booth during E3, where we spoke with one of the game's designers and played through a number of its single and multiplayer levels.
Currently in development at France-based RayLand Interactive, Bang! Gunship Elite initially resembles standard space-combat simulators like StarLancer and FreeSpace 2, but it plays more like a mix between Descent and old console side scrollers like Gradius and R-Type. The game lacks any claustrophobic enclosed spaces, though, and takes place entirely in the vast expanse of space. Unlike the traditional games in the genre, Bang! casts aside any notion of strategy or piloting skill and doesn't fiddle with anything other than all-out action. That's not to say that the game only requires an itchy trigger finger from its players, however. Even though Bang! looks like it plays on rails, the game is indeed completely open, and players will have to couple quick shooting with some fancy flying to get through the game's waves of enemies.
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- Red Storm Entertainment
- Space Combat Sim
- Release: Jul 19, 2000
- ESRB: Everyone
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