Rogue Trooper Invading North American Wiis

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Graffiti Entertainment will be bringing the Wii version of Rebellion's shooter Rogue Trooper to North American Wiis before the year's end, the publisher announced today.

Based on the sci-fi strip from British comic 2000 AD, Rogue Trooper was a solid third-person tactical shooter mostly overlooked upon its initial release for PC, Xbox and PS2 in 2006. The Wii version hit Europe in February, ported by Reef Entertainment.

Gameplay mixed stealth and action with a pre-Gears of War cover system and such gadgets as a remote gun, holo-decoy and mines, plus pretty fun on-rails sequences.

Interestingly the only pick-up is salvage, used to create all of Rogue's ammo, medkits and upgrades for his rifle. Click on for a trailer showing the GI in action.

From The Chatty
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    September 15, 2009 3:59 PM

    Never heard of it from back in 2006... looks pretty frickin sweet, albeit with older graphics.

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      September 15, 2009 4:36 PM

      It's pretty fun. It's basically to Gears of War what BG&E is to Zelda. Different production values and direction, less interaction with the environment, and just not as complete all around, but still fresh despite being almost identical gameplay-wise.

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        September 15, 2009 4:58 PM

        That sounds about right.

        Rogue Trooper is a solid, decent title and there's not too many games of its kind of Wii, so hopefully it will get a little more attention this time around.

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          September 16, 2009 3:03 AM

          It sold next to nothing on Wii in the UK. So probably not. :/

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      September 15, 2009 5:43 PM

      It was fun at the time, though it probably helped that it came out before Gears of War.

      Those graphics don't look much (if at all) improved from the old version.

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