Summary: <p>On this episode of the fortnightly Waypoint UK Podcast, senior ed sort Mike Diver and regular co-conspirator Kate Gray are joined by Paul Kilduff-Taylor of Oxford’s Mode 7 Games, to discuss the studio’s forthcoming releases: <b>Frozen Synapse 2</b> and <b>Tokyo 42</b>.</p> <p> </p> <p>The former is the sequel to Mode 7’s breakout hit of 2011, a simultaneous tactics strategy game that’s honestly easier to play than it is to properly explain, which earned massively celebratory reviews from the likes of <b>Edge</b> and Eurogamer. Well done, that game. <b>Frozen Synapse 2</b> promises to deliver “open-world tactics” when it comes out later in 2017, and looked pretty grand from the whole five minutes of it that I saw at this year’s Rezzed. </p> <p> </p> <p><b>Probably</b> out before that is (the pictured above) <b>Tokyo 42</b>, made by the two-man team of SMAC Games and the first game to be published by Mode 7. Now this I did play a fair chunk of at Rezzed, and while my keyboard control skills are... <br></p><hr><p style="color: grey;">See <a style="color: grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
