WWDC: Freeverse Previews 'Warpack Grunts', 'Warp Gate' and More…
posted by arn on June 11th, 2009 7:26 AM EDT in Upcoming Games, WWDC 2009At last night's launch party, Freeverse previewed a number of their upcoming games including Warpack Grunts, Warp Gate, TrackZ, Flick Baseball and Thor.
While not all the presentation video has been released, we do have some early footage of a couple of these games.
Warpack Grunts is a squad-based shooter in which you control your pack of soldiers and lead them across various missions. Grunts are first equipped with a standard machine gun but can later pick up rocket launchers and sniper rifles. This basic video shows the early gameplay:
A second video that was shown at the launch event shows the sniper rifle as well as vehicular play (tank and helicoptor). The game is said to have gone gold master so we should expect it shortly
The next notable game Freevers previewed is one called Warp Gate. The game is described as a 3d space exploration / shooter / trading game that seems similar to Escape Velocity with a fully 3D engine.
The game is still under heavy active development, so many of the details are not yet complete. The game is said to include hundreds of different star ships and 30 different solar systems.
This early gameplay video shows the controls of the game, while a second video offers an overview of the game.
Warp Gate is due sometime in Summer 2009.
Nice Cannon Fodder clone.
Ah!!! thanks Christian, couldn't remember the name, was it on the Amiga?
Warp Gate looks delicious.
Exactly what I was thinking Christian and if they can get it nearly as good as Cannon Fodder then they've got a top 3 game on their hands, cos that was an awesome game.
I'm trying to remember a game back in the 90's that is very close to Warpack grunts. If I remember right I was playing in on a Pentium II IBM (something like that). Does anyone know what game I'm talking about?
Nice, both lookin' good.
Now somebody please convert "Syndicate"…
they need to port over Space Rangers(http://spacerangers2.com/) to the iPhone as well as "Syndicate" as some one mentioned
Warpack Grunts looks promising. There was a game on the Sega Genesis back in the day that reminds me a bit of this. It was a squad of 4 mercenaries and you would pick i think it was 2 at a time, one you controlled and one backed you up? I forget. But it was a fun game. Maybe a little more depth than this appears to have. Each of the mercs had specialties, etc.
@Toph
Yep Cannon Fodder was on Amiga originally, but it was later ported to a lot of other platforms including PC (probably the version Tek0 is thinking of), Megadrive and Snes.
Oh man, what I wouldn't give for an iPhone port of escape velocity. I think I've sunk more time into the games in that series more than any other game in my entire life.
Warp gate has me interested, but I can't help but worry that it won't live up to the greatness that was EV.
Oh man warp gate looks awesome! So far I've been disappointed with all the space trading games that's been released. I am sure this will be no EV, but hopefully it can stand up on its own right.
Ambrosia needs to port Escape Velocity. Now THAT would be epic.
What a complete rip-off of Cannon Fodder!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJB_1e-MlyY
Shame on you Freeverse.
@SAMWISE "There was a game on the Sega Genesis back in the day that reminds me a bit of this. It was a squad of 4 mercenaries and you would pick i think it was 2 at a time, one you controlled and one backed you up? I forget. But it was a fun game. Maybe a little more depth than this appears to have. Each of the mercs had specialties, etc."
This game was called "General Chaos" one of my favorite genesis titles.
Somebody wake up Braben to port Frontier on iPhone plaese
The flight mechanics look a little weak in Warp Gate, but obviously you can't go wrong with that core EV gameplay.
If Freeverse can figure out of way to implement momentum-based space combat on a 2D plane the game will sell like mad.
Any decent Cannon Fodder clone is going to get my money, no doubt. That was a cool game (I still go back to Cannon Fodder 1 and 2 on the odd occasion.)
They were damn cruel games at times though ..too many situations that relied on sheer luck to survive. And some where the firepower pointed at you made that lucky break murderously unlikely. (I swore at that game a *lot* ..probably broke a mouse or two.)
As some comments suggest, I wish Ambrosia Soft would port Escape Velocity on the iphone… One of my all time favourite games !! I beg u Ambrosia do something !!
I think Warp Gate looks better than Warpack Grunts.
I'll be buying that before I even think about Warpack.
Warp Gate=star trek armada for iphone?:D
Warp Gate looks like "space rangers", its a great game, but i hope it wont have the bag most games of this games has, you reach the end of the tech tree.