G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout PC Game is a third-person shooter game. This game is based on Hasbro's G.I. Joe toyline. Which was released for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One on13th October 2020. Later on, on 14th December 2020 released for Microsoft Windows. G.I. Joe game was produced by IguanaBee and Fair Play Labs. But in North America, it was published by GameMill Entertainment and in Europe by Maximum Games. It is the 1st G.I. Joe console video game since 2009's game G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
When “movable fighting man” G.I. Joe first made his way to British shores in the 1960s, he was renamed as the less nation-specific “Action Man.” Notwithstanding this amusingly bland new moniker, Action Man was still a smashing success with British kids, going on to sell thousands of dolls, (“It’s an action figure, mum!”), in the ensuing decades.
The synthetic military man and his kung-fu grip became so huge here in Britain, that when the super-popular G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero animated series made the leap overseas, it also needed to be renamed, to keep marketing in line with the toy range. So do you know what we got? Action Force. ACTION FORCE. The Brits are nothing if not great at poorly localizing American properties. That and making abysmal political decisions.
Nice history lesson, Moyse, but what does this have to do by G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout, GameMill Entertainment’s new video game adaptation of the aforementioned Saturday morning show? Honestly, not all that much. But what’s important is that now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is a joint-production of Chilean developer Iguanabee and Costa Rican studio Fair Play Labs. A third-person action-adventure with hero shooter elements, Operation Blackout is the first licensed G.I. Joe title since 2009 movie tie-in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and chooses to set itself within the universe of the hit 1980s animated series, rather than the recent live-action movies.
Operation Blackout consists of two distinct modes: a roughly six-hour story campaign and local co-op/Vs. play. The story campaign puts players in the gung-ho boots of both members of the G.I. Joe squad, as well as their villainous rivals COBRA. (Shout it. Always shout it.). In a storyline surprisingly similar to Marvel’s Avengers, a violent attack on the G.I. Joe headquarters results in the scattering and disbanding of the Real American Heroes, which leads to the vile Starscream Cobra Commander becoming President of the United States – I mean, at this point, I’ll take it.
Scattered across the globe, it is up to the player to reunite the members of G.I. Joe, before launching a series of covert missions to free the United States from COBRA’s tyranny. As a plotline, it’s straight out of the TV show, delightfully over-the-top and filled with amusing and welcome holes and contrivances. The story is shown through some nicely styled comic-book art, which makes up for the static nature of the cinematics. If there’s one element Operation Blackout does very well, it captures the feel, atmosphere, and awesomely Hoo-Rah spirit of the G.I Joe universe.
G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout Minimum requirements:
- Operating System: 64-bit Windows 7/8.1/10
- Processor: Core i5 3.5 GHz
- RAM: 4 GB
- DirectX: 11
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
- HDD Space: 12.5 GB
Size: 8 GB
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