Isn't engine license costs alone for the Unreal 3 engine at least double the kickstarter amount? There's no way this game was made for under a million dollars.

After some more co-op:

It defaults to "mission mode" and the map "Biolab" every time you fail a mission you can't just restart you have to select it all again. It doesn't always play the map selected, you end up on "Biolab" or the map you selected before that. On "tango hunt" in the level "HQ" there is a dodgy player spawn, you can die before you spawn. It won't tell you what your loadout consists of, you have to remember what you set as "loadout 1" or "loadout 4". There is no tactical challenge to the game, it wears off pretty quickly. The easiest way to play the game is to run and gun because the A.I has a hard time hitting moving targets. The hardest part is trying to shoot the bad guys as they run back and forth and dance around. The singleplayer teammate A.I rarely shoots even when set it to aggressive and you cannot order them around other than: Hold position/Follow me Aggressive/Only return fire. Grenades and flashbangs are useless, especially when the enemies are facing the other way staring at the walls for some reason (and didn't even notice the flashbang! uuuugghhh!)

It could write an essay on all the obvious bugs since it clearly wasn't tested at all or at least was not fit for release yet. It does have some positives though:

+ Level design is great (apart from the doors all open in some of the levels)
+ Graphics and sounds are fine
+ It does "feel" like a tactical game, very SWAT/Rainbow Sixy
+ The text-to-speech is hilarious (singing, dialing tones, trollolololol etc) <--- best feature of the game

I had no idea this was a kickstarted game. I bought this based off of the early footage shown and the description on the store page. It sounded promising and It does have the potential to be pretty decent but the glaring bugs on release such as the multiplayer lobby being broken (I can only connect via server IP) and the A.I being pants (The main feature of the game co-op vs A.I). It's not worth trying at the moment.

Did they use Unreal3 engine or some cheaper option like Unity?

From Kickstarter update #29 (19/06/2012);
"It's been another exciting week here at Serellan HQ. We've brought on board two new developers from Zipper Interactive and made our final decision to use Unreal Engine 3 for TAKEDOWN. "

the problem is that it is not really released yet, it is an alpha. bugs and unfinished things are to be expected for some time yet. at the moment it is more or less an engine and concept demo, as the first alphas are supposed to be. It is hard to say anything about the finished product yet, and I am not aware about any timescale the developers have (I do not follow this project as this is not my type of game)

It's not marked as an alpha, that's the issue here

while true that the reality is this ammounts to a concept demo, far as i can tell thats not how theyr advertising it. Its not marked as early access on the steam page.
Wow what a mess... that ai..

This looks so bad, here's a cat o' 11 tails just to make sure.

is it not? I thought it was in early access

This is in the FAQ: source

Then I agree - it is bad.

Was it before or after they found the investor? Perhaps that was the investros major contribution, the engine.

I've figured out why the A.I is so dumb. First of all they start off "sleeping" (remember the first level of DOOM 2 where you could wake the first two enemies by punching the air? It's like that. They're "asleep"). Second, they look where the gunshots land and not where they are coming from... *facepalm*

Here, thank Chow

He has a compilation of video reviews for you to peruse at your leisure to get a feel for what you're in for.


http://steamcommunity.com/app/236510/discussions/0/846965056805208672/?tscn=1379903007