Renegade Ops even beats Bad Boys II

Posted by on September 27, 2011 in Reviews

In case you didn’t know yet from my ongoing enthusiastic burbling, I love Renegade Ops.

In the movie Bad Boys 2, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence drive a Humvee through a shantytown. It’s stupid. Who would do that? People might get hurt. But it’s action movie stupid, no one gets hurt, and it looks grand. This is Renegade Ops in a nutshell, although with more explosions, cars way cooler than any mere Humvee, and plenty of surprises.

Now my love has a score. Read the full review here.

  • Rimbo

    I tried the demo of Renegade Ops, and then deleted it when I realized I already had a copy of the game on a different console and under a different name: The Dreamcast’s “Cannon Spike.”

    I guess if I ever lose my Dreamcast or it gives up the ghost, though, I know what to do to get my fix. :)

  • Anonymous

    Oh, Rimbo, you’re so quaintly retro!

    BTW, leaving aside the graphics engine, does Cannon Spike have hearty RPG elements, a high-score system, four-player online multiplayer, teh hardcore physics, and an aircraft carrier that rams a secret underground lair?  

  • BaggerMcGuirk

    Much obliged.  I probably would have missed this entirely if not for this review.  It strikes me as a hybrid dungeon crawler and arcade shooter, and turned out to be just what I didn’t know I was looking for.  $15 is a bit steep, but I’m pretty sure I can break this out as a party game for at least a few house guests.  I would like to know how much more effort it would have taken to implement split-screen and online at the same time, but after Borderlands let me down, I try not to expect that.

  • Garret

    Just bought this yesterday and ended up playing split-screen co-op for about 4 hour straight. It was a blast.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve got Dark Souls, Dead Island, and Shadow of the Colossus sitting on my desk begging for my attention, but I just can’t stop playing Renegade Ops. Thanks for turning me on to this, Tom – this is just astoundingly fun.