Current status of shooters
As many have noticed, lately pretty much all FPS and TPS games have turned more or less the same: linear campaigns with "cool" and "dramatic" moments, regenerative health (bloody screen so real), no brain usage required. The same applies to co-op and multiplayer. Ten years ago, in the beginning of the millenium, a new kind of shooter emerged when Tom Clancy himself wanted to make a game based on his novel Rainbow Six. He wanted it to be something different than reflex-based fast-paced games like Quake. He wanted it to be realistic and slow-paced. Red Storm Entertainment then developed the classic tactical shooters like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon. Another notable tactical shooter series was SWAT. But as I earlier said, now most of the games are not tactical nor realistic. Even the sequel to R6 and GR are but a bland shadow of what they used to be.

Our prayers have been answered! ...Or have they?
But now Blackfoot Studios is attempting to make a game to fulfill our hunger for a tactical shooter. The developers definitely have experience and they have the right ideas for the game. It's called Ground Branch. Blackfoot Studios have presented their ideas to numerous publishers, but their reactions have not been favourable. They wanted to change Ground Branch so that it would get a bigger audience, or in other words dumbing it down and making it something else than it's supposed to be.

Ground Branch will not be like Battlefield, Red Orchestra, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Arma or like pretty much any shooter that has been released in the past seven years. It is very close to the original Rainbow Six games (pre-Vegas) and that's the goal. (edit: it's actually closer to the original Ghost Recon)

The main features of Ground Branch
- No artificial weapon balancing.
- Tactical realism
- Non-linear game design
- Realistic health system (no regenerating health here)
- Wounding system (if you get shot in the arm, you are less accurate, get shot in the leg and you limp etc)
- Weapon and gear customization
- Immediate access to all content
- Mod tools
- Material penetration
- Doors that can be opened/closed at variable speed, kicked open (might take more than one kick) as well as breached with weapons or explosives
- Full and free Dedicated Server support. Host a server wherever you want
- Weapons collide with the world.