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Game Title: Rogue Spear
Developer: Red Storm Entertainment Inc.
Publisher: Red Storm Entertainment Inc.
Release Date: 1999-09-22
Review Date: 2001-07-26
Reviewed By: hachiroku
Multiplayer Co-Op psuedo (one off missions)
Platform(s): Windows image
MacOS image
Linux image
Windows 9X/2000/XP
MacOS 8.1/OS X
n/a
Server Guide: Game Server image n/a
Expansion Pack(s): Urban Operations
Covert Operation Essentials
Black Thorn
Rogue SpearOn the opposite end of the FPS spectrum than Quake 3, Rogue Spear is a strategy based FPS that is a real challenge.

True squad-based, and team-play elements make this a strategy filled experience. Realistically, in Rogue Spear, it doesn't take many bullets to be put out of commission, so each movement, each step taken should be carefully planned out before being put into action.

We have played countless hours of Rogue Spear at the bunker and have truly enjoyed it. The Rogue Spear engine is really dated now and it is hard to know whether Red Storm will publish as good a game as Rogue Spear in the future.

Multiplayer (the stuff that matters):
The entire Rainbow Six series is about team play. Which is why it has been such a popular game over the years at the Bunker. MOst hardcore Quake players find Rogue Spear to be frustrating...mostly cause you can't run in guns blazing, well you can but then you're dead and don't get to respawn until the end of the match...Ahhh that's tooo bad! For those of us who really get off on the strategy end of things Rogue Spear offers hours of endless fun, tossing frags into rooms and laying down with a good sniper rifle off somewhere in the level giving people a case of "leaky head syndrome"!

RATING: 9/10

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System Requirements

PC

  • Pentium 266 MHz
  • Windows 95/98
  • 32 MB RAM
  • DirectX 6.0
  • 4 MB SVGA DirectX-compatible video card
  • 4x CD-ROM drive
  • DirectX-compatible sound card
  • 200 MB hard-disk space

MAC

  • PowerPC
  • MacOS 8.1 or later
  • QuickTime 3.0 or later
  • OpenGL 1.1.2 or later
  • DrawSprocket 1.7.3 or later

Multiplayer

  • Supports up to 16 players over TCP/IP on LAN

 


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