Sure the Xbox One has plenty of characters, but what do they have in the way of action characters? And I don't mean your Chief Mastersons and your Arbiters, I'm talking 80's take-no-prisoners action heroes. The types of folks that are always here to kick ass and do another thing, but the other thing is never available for some reason. Well, whatever the count, they're about to get more, cause Tango Fiesta is about to make its way to the platform.
By most accounts, the 80s were the cinematic peak of character action movies. You had your John Rambos and your John McClanes turning bad guys into piles of far-less-alive bad guys. You had your Terminators and your Predators providing hours of evidence that Arnold Schwarzenegger is indestructible. Those movies are thoroughly fake, of course (everyone knows Schwarzenegger's weakness is [REDACTED]), but within every lie is an inkling of truth. That's why Tango Fiesta aims to tell the real story on September 24th.
A couple of co-op deals have appeared on the recent Humble Weekly Bundle, just enough to make it worth our nod of approval. Out of the 14 games in the bundle, three offer up a tasty co-op mode. Strangely enough, they're all retro-style arcade shooters, too.
Last night the crew streamed the early access version of Tango Fiesta, a twin stick shooter where "wacky, frenetic, comical, over-the-top, cheese-fuelled action of your favourite 80’s action movies becomes reality." We checked out the game, developed by Split Milk Studios, in three player online co-op.
If every 80's action film could fit into one game, that game would be Tango Fiesta. The latest update to this Early Access title takes a page from "Running Man" (1987), placing you in a deadly game show titled 'Who Wants to Be a Killionaire'. You play as the first playable female in Tango Fiesta, Conchita, who's been wrongly accused for a crime she didn't commit.
Hey look! It's a cooperative twin stick shooter with a description that doesn't include the words "gritty" or "World War 2"! Tango Fiesta from Spilt Milk Studios is a wild and colorful parody heading to Steam Early Access June 4th. It's got fully destructible environments, procedurally generated levels, online co-op, and a character named Bionic Cop. That's basically all we needed to know.
