Drone: Remote Tactical Warfare

Drone: Remote Tactical Warfare is a top-down action game that combines stealth and combat. As a veteran cyber-mercenary, you remotely control mechanized assets through a satellite camera (SATCAM) that can track across the battlefield. Your mission is to weaken the forces of Universal Industries on Planet Zerous and secure the resource they are seeking, in an effort to prevent the destruction of what remains of the planet.

The conflict on Zerous

In a post-post-apocalyptic future, hyper-corporate entities control humanity and exploit resource-rich exoplanets, mining them until their physical structures collapse. Newly discovered life is often exterminated as potential competition; life with biological traits useful for financial or military purposes is acquired instead. A small uprising in Earth's megacities opposes the corporations and uses cyber-warfare to access their military drone-control networks.

Universal Industries' expeditionary forces are nearing the end of an eradication operation on Zerous and have almost secured the resource that brought them there. A breach in the planet's satellite network, SATNET, lets you remotely operate an RT6 maintenance unit. An assault mech is also in the area, and the firepower of the battle-tested R65 “Big-cat” is essential to the mission. You must use drones, strategy and resourceful tactics to deplete the invaders' forces, secure the resource and try to make them evacuate Zerous.

Infiltrate and attack

In Arcade mode, you begin with a small support drone to infiltrate high-security facilities. You collect ammunition, hack security turrets, place hidden mines and dispatch patrolling enemies without being noticed. Once equipped and your traps are set, you can use a heavy assault drone to raise the alarm and fight waves of responding local forces, with dozens of enemies on screen at once.

The mode includes 12 missions across three installations, with security and enemy troop numbers increasing across the levels. More than 20 unlocks are available: high performance earns weapons and upgrades, including futuristic heavy weaponry based on real-world weapons. Gadgets include mines, laser targeters and suppressors.

Stealth and enemy forces

Automated security turrets scan the area at long range, while patrolling units investigate and report anything unusual. You need to set traps without being detected. Infantry operate in sections under squad leaders, who can order them to attack, find cover or retreat, and raise their unit's morale. Autonomous enemy vehicles keep within firing range.

Arcade combat bonuses

In Arcade mode, multi-kills, destruction of high-value targets, stealth kills and other combat actions can earn combat performance bonuses. Earn five bonuses to call in attacks from above, including missile strikes and tank-busting close air support.