Ready or Not - The spiritual successor to Rainbow Six and SWAT 4

[will2k]

The game is still in early access, but the reception has been overwhelmingly positive (96% positive of 8.3k reviews on steam)

It does look and play like a modern version of SWAT 4

Already added to wishlist  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144200/Ready_or_Not/

 

[Bunglo]

Karmakut has some vids on this, when there's a sale I will most likely buy.

 

[FMPONE]

looks like open a door and shout GUY HAS A GUN simulator

[Bunglo]

That's basically what swat teams do IRL

[will2k]

For all the "young" folks here who never got to play the classics back in the day or for veterans who didn't like tactical FPS games to try them, here are some short gameplay videos from the classics that led to this game of "Ready or Not".

I literally played the shit out of these back in 1998-99 on my trusted Pentium II, and seeing these missions and the officers names almost brought a nostalgic tear to my eye.

Rainbow Six  (1998)

 

Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999)

 

SWAT 3 (1999) (hint: the original hardcore unforgiving game)

 

SWAT 4 (2005) (a bit more mainstream than 3)

 

[ThunderKeil]

So it's only PVE, right?

Never played SWAT or Rainbow 6 so it honestly looks like payday (2) to me more than anything from that introduction video

Definitely not a saturated subgenre I think, so they've got a good shot to carve out a playerbase

[Bunglo]

Swat 4 was fantastic. I was always more keen on the original Ghost Recon games than the og Rainbow 6

[will2k]

On 12/24/2021 at 3:46 PM, ThunderKeil said:

So it's only PVE, right?

Yes, according to the steam tags, it's single player and COOP against AI enemies.

On 12/25/2021 at 12:27 AM, Bunglo said:

Swat 4 was fantastic. I was always more keen on the original Ghost Recon games than the og Rainbow 6

Different games though

R6 and SWAT are urban/suburbs CQB, while GR is more military ops across open world.

I still have the OG GR up to advanced warfighter in their original CDs/DVDs; big fan 

 

[Bunglo]

6 hours ago, will2k said:

Different games though

R6 and SWAT are urban/suburbs CQB, while GR is more military ops across open world.

Yep, when I was in my teens I don't think I realized this or cared to understand the distinction between the two series. 

Though even between SWAT 4 and R6, SWAT 4 hooked me straight away while R6 never felt right to me and so I quickly gave up on it.

Edited December 26, 2021 by Bunglo

[Lizard]

I really dont like how it copies swat4 in everything i have seen to this day. UI - commands - utilities - even some of the mechanics. I get that the whole idea was to create successor but having 2005 UX ideas in 2021 game is kinda meh...