Adding to the onslaught of Gamescom news and announcements, Rising Star Games has revealed a brand new trailer for RICO.
This arcade-style, first-person shooter was first revealed for Switch in March this year. Inspired by modern action cinema, RICO has you and a friend playing as a pair of loose-cannon police partners, trying to crack a case as part of an elite organised crime task force in just 24 hours.
Its in-game planning is described as being "tactical rather than strategic", with players needing to react to shootouts as they unfurl right there in the moment, gaining additional time to assess the situation if they are able to surprise their adversaries. The emphasis seems to be on simply having a fun time with your buddy, however, with the game's PR telling us to "just kick down doors, shoot bad guys, and exploit the element of surprise to gain the upper hand".

Gameplay features:
• Online co-op and offline split-screen play
• "Daily play" with online leaderboards
• Randomly generated cases, operations, and environments
• Unlockable weapons, traits, and mission types
• Compete against the clock to solve a case in 24 hours
Originally, RICO was destined to arrive on Switch this autumn, but the date has now been pushed back to "early 2019".
Does this one pique your interest? Let us know if you'll be joining up with a friend for this one in the comments.
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Definitely interested in this game.
this looks good will get this one.
Hmm, looks like an insane version of bullet time from Max Payne
Aw yeah... PUNCHING BAG!
Anyway, definitely an arcade-y, guts and gory shooter with apparently Max Payne/Matrix bullet-time within the period you kick down a door and surprise the enemy. I can dig it. Is there going to be a joycon gun shell for this perhaps?
As for case cracking, there won't be much of that since you're killing everyone lol... gotta love mindless fun.
Not on my radar but a good change from most shooters due to the cartoon style animation, rather than going for ultra realistic like almost all other fps nowadays.
@bones Wait what? Have I travelled back to 2008? That's less the case now then ever, with games like Fortnite, Paladins, Splatoon, Overwatch, DOOM etc. It was the 360/PS3 generation where we were showered with browny grey realistic shooters. Outside of COD and Battlefield there barely are any anymore, and even those series are changing rapidly.
I'm interested. I like that it's got daily challenges and leaderboards.
I'll keep this on my radar. It's got a 007 vibe with the arcadey speed. Randomly generated cases and such could add replay value
The gameplay looks cool, not a fan of cop games tho. 😥
I'm not interested! But yay for those who are.
Someone found Ubi's XIII source code 😏
Forgot about this. Breach: The Game! I'm down. Like the idea enough, just hope they can nail the feel, and make the random cases interesting. Hope I can cuff people ala Swat and that one BF game. Love that for some reason.
Sucker for FPS! Give me all of them.
Not really sure I know how this game will exactly play (even after watching the video) but alright! I’m interested in more info
Hopefully 60fps
Character models look a bit odd at times but the game looks pretty sweet. More emphasis on the action is always best.
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