Lone Soldier

Run and gun? More like stand and fire! Developer: Tempest Software Publisher: Telstar Electronic Studios (Europe), Virgin Interactive (Japan) Release Date: January 1996 (Europe), October 4th, 1996 (Japan) Available On: Playstation Genre(s): Run and Gun, Third-person Shooter (it kinda fits both even if I focus on the former, y’know?) Let’s be clear right away: this one is only for the strongest soldiers of Kusoge! If you’re the type to say things like “Why play a bad game when I can play a good game instead?”, then you need not apply to this particular assignment because you ain’t got the stomach for what Tempest Software was cooking. Lone Soldier is an early Playstation game, but even that can’t be used as a shield to justify everything it does as secretly normal and/or sensible. I’m absolutely the kind of guy to try and make a case for anything I please and I’m sure gonna try, but I think I have my work cut out for me because this game defies the very concept of conventional…