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General discussionComing soon: Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission and Screaming Chicken: Ultimate Showdown(28 posts)(28 posts)
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Posted April 13, 2023
Get ready for a reinterpretation of one of the founding games of the Rail Shooter genre and a nutty multiplayer party game stuffed with madness – Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission and Screaming Chicken: Ultimate Showdown are coming soon to GOG!

Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission adopts the same DNA as in the original arcade game from 1987 (sustained action in an atmosphere straight out of 1980s action films) but offers a new design. Expect new artistic direction, addition of parody style voices, gameplay focused on non-stop action, a campaign that can be played alone or with two players, survival mode (fighting waves of enemies), and an arsenal of weapons.



Screaming Chicken: Ultimate Showdown on the other hand is a wacky multiplayer party game where you can prove that you rule the roost! As the daffiest screaming chickens in stylish outfits you will compete with each other on a wide variety of unique destructible levels. Lots of skills, lots of weapons, lots of destruction, creativity, customization and… fun!
Posted April 13, 2023
Screaming Chicken looks very fun... to the wishlist!

On the other hand... As much as I played the original Operation Wolf, this new game doesn't look appealing at all to me.
Post edited April 13, 2023 by Lone_Scout
Posted April 13, 2023
Sorry, but "Operation Wolf" looks like a childrens game. I don't want to say "garbage" (because I have seen much worse...), but NOTHING reminds me of the 80s original there. How could they?
Post edited April 13, 2023 by Anime-BlackWolf
Posted April 13, 2023
Op Wolf was one of my Favourite games from the 80s, not 100% on the style, but definitely going to give it a go
Posted April 13, 2023
Geez, so many hours I spent on an arcade with Operation Wolf, I wish I could play it again!
Posted April 13, 2023
Got excited .. then i saw the artwork... (Operation Wolf)
Posted April 13, 2023
This... looks like a very different "Operation Wolf". Weird to use the name for such changes...
Posted April 13, 2023
As a guy who spent many hours playing "Operation Wolf" on the Spectrum, comedy is something which doesn't really fit the franchise well.
I'd be happy to see a true FPS with a grim and gritty setting.
Posted April 13, 2023
I didn't heard earlier abotu Screaming Chicken, but looks very fun! Plus I'm happy to hear that there is another game from the, well, let's call it genre of "mini-games collection". Thrillville: Off the Rails was incredibly fun for me, so I I'm expecting the same about Screaming Chicken :)

I see the game was released today on Steam with 10% discount (plus additional discount if you own Spirit of the Island or Biped), so I guess we can expect the same, when the game will be available here.
Post edited April 13, 2023 by MartiusR
Posted April 13, 2023
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Anime-BlackWolf: Sorry, but "Operation Wolf" looks like a childrens game.
The actual action screens don't look so bad, but that comic-style cutscene (?) looks totally out of place.
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karnak1: As a guy who spent many hours playing "Operation Wolf" on the Spectrum, comedy is something which doesn't really fit the franchise well.
Well, that really depends.
The original game did have strange things like joggers, girls in bikinis and nurses running all over the battlefield, which are more on the comedy side than realism.
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karnak1: I'd be happy to see a true FPS with a grim and gritty setting.
Yeah, although the original Operation Wold is some kind of forerunner for later FPS games, and undoubtedly a classic game. Hopefully they get the true, original version on GOG as well.

I'm not holding my breath though, they did get the Boulder Dash remake here, but the original game is still missing...
Post edited April 13, 2023 by PixelBoy
Posted April 13, 2023
Operation Wolf was fun because it involved aiming a light gun (both the arcade machine and home computer). I played it on a ZX Spectrum with this and the game was unique / memorable purely because of that aiming. Not sure what gameplay is going to be like without it.
Posted April 13, 2023
Man, Operation Wolf, I had completely forgotten about that game.
Does anyone remember its sequel, Operation Thunderbolt? I had fun with that too.
Posted April 13, 2023
Seeing that even stuff like Operation Wolf is being remade leaves me in a strange state where I don't know if I should be happy (that some stuff I'd like to be remade will be) or worried (that things that shouldn't be touched will be shAIted upon)?!
Posted April 13, 2023
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karnak1: As a guy who spent many hours playing "Operation Wolf" on the Spectrum, comedy is something which doesn't really fit the franchise well.
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PixelBoy: Well, that really depends.
The original game did have strange things like joggers, girls in bikinis and nurses running all over the battlefield, which are more on the comedy side than realism.
I honestly don't remember the girls in bikini. The Spectrum version (as far as I remember) featured the nurses carrying a stretcher and women who reminded me of the old photos of Vietnamese refugees. Which - as a kid - probably further enhanced the aspect of the "horrors of war". Add to that the uglier monochrome graphics and I guess it made the Spectrum conversion seem more "hard-boiled" than the original arcade version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1ypYxyUFI0
Post edited April 13, 2023 by karnak1
Posted April 13, 2023
I'd much rather have the original Operation Wolf than the new thing that doesn't look anything like it. This isn't really nostalgia speaking, either, I last played the arcade version a few months ago.
Post edited April 13, 2023 by Zeewolf
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