Classic: Tango Strike

By: Derek Yu

On: June 3rd, 2009

Tango Strike

Back in the day, Fallen Angel Industries, or FAIND, was a well-regarded group in the Klik community (the community of people who use Klik n’ Play, The Games Factory, and Multimedia Fusion). They released a number of entertaining and polished titles, including Super Ken Senshi, Factor X, and Siege. Some of their former members include Joakim Sandberg, who released the original Noitu Love under FAIND, and Hamish McLeod, the creator of the now-vaporware War Angels.

Of their games, Tango Strike continues to stand out to me as particularly entertaining and polished. In the game you control a squad of three operatives which you can switch between. Each operative is better at one thing or another. Johnson, for example, is the weapons expert. Miles is good with tools. Vasquez is a woman. You can outfit your squad before each mission and are given a money bonus depending on how well you do in speed, stealth, and teamwork.

The missions, which can get pretty complex, span large maps, and there is some freedom in how you accomplish your various goals, which generally involve rescuing hostages, disarming bombs, and blowing stuff up. But the flavorful briefings and varied locations make it fun to play and see what the next mission is. Which is good, because it’s definitely a pretty challenging game at times.

Speaking of Klik history, the Daily Click recently put up The Click Museum, where you can download a lot of classic Klik games, including Tango Strike! Let me know if anyone still has the RPG Sword of Cobalt. I loved that game. It’d be a shame if it were lost forever.

TIGdb: Entry for Tango Strike

Posted in Action, Freeware, Highly Recommended, Strategy, Windows | Tags: FallenAngelIndustries

jeb

Hehe, it sounds funny that Vasquez’s special ability is to be a woman =)

The Klik Museum looks awesome! So many games, so little time…
cactus

Wow, nice pick!

I remember playing this back when it was first featured on GameHippo. I had a lot of fun with it, but never managed to beat it. I love the graphics, and as far as I can remember, the gameplay was a lot of fun (some of the AI was a bit lacking, but not a big deal).

I’ll try this again when I get a chance.
chutup

lol, Jeb beat me to it.

Reminds me of the DVD blurb for Darkplace:

“Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin.”
Dinsdale

“Johnson, for example, is the weapons expert. Miles is good with tools. Vasquez is a woman.”

This is awesome on so many levels.
Felix

Vasquez was a woman!? Man, I loved FAIND’s games. does Hamish still have a current site?
contra

This is one of the best games ever. One of my alltime favorites. Thats including commercial titles. I simply love it.
Whatever happened to Beau anyway? He was one of the most talented guys in the scene. Please come back :~
konjak

Life caught up to Beau… :(
Radix

Derek loves him some Sword of Cobalt.
Paul Eres

it’s weird how the communities surrounding different game engines have coincidences and similarities even though they never interact. the ohrrpgce community also had ‘companies’ like this, where people would team up and create games under particular labels. we had red murdock games, insight games, and my own group of rpgcreations. the ‘sword of cobalt’ even sounds similar to the ohrrpgce game ‘sword of jade’. they’re like parallel universes.
Sludge

Just tried out Tango Strike. Does anyone else get a chunky, uneven framerate? It seems to start and stop for me. Vista/3ghz core 2.
Kenzya

They don’t exist anymore?

D:

I LOVED their games.
Gilgamesh

The klik community…

Those were the days. Those… were the days.

I remember back when we had #k&p, our own IRC channel, and even our own news site. No, The Daily Click doesn’t count. They never were the true community. The klik community from way back died a long time ago. Man, I sure do miss those days.
Gilgamesh

I wish I knew what happened to all my fellow comrades from back in the day, from the early days of “klik.” I know they hated my guts back then because I was an annoying douchebag. But man, they were great. I really wish I knew what they were up to these days. I’d be nice to see a new game or two from them or something. But most of them have probably moved on from the whole klik scene and some of them have even assimilated into this new “indie gaming” scene. But, let me tell you, those were the days.
Beau

I am still around. I just can’t be bothered with a website. And yeah…life and all that jazz. But working on 2 games right now. One is large and will take forever. The other is small and is coming along quickly.
Moses2k

The Klik Kommunity lives!

http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com
fartron

The Vasquez line leads me to believe that her ability involves saying “Hey boys!” and causing guards to drop their weapons and turn into cartoon wolves with telescope eyes and hearts beating out of their chests.
tard

My game just keeps looping the training level, anyone else get that problem?
Gilgamesh

A little off topic here, but does anyone know what ever happened to Natomic?

I used to be one of the early members of the group. I co-created a game called Project 053 along with a guy by the name of Brad (aka Akira).

It was one of the only games I ever finished. And due to the fact that I’d never finish anything, they kicked me out of the group eventually.

I was always thinking of making a sequel to that game. But if I ever were to do that, I would ask permission first from Brad if the guy is even around anymore.
Anon

Clearly, the implication is that Vasquez is good at housework and having dinner waiting for you when you get home from work. Invaluable for a surgical strike.
Ezuku

The mouse is irritating. I mean, how the mouse can move outside of the game boundary.

Aside from that, this is a very enjoyable game.
Sludge

I can’t get past the tutorial. The game just starts over when I finish.
Ezuku

Err, I remember that hitting escape brings you back to the menu screen in too many situations, which forces you to restart. Perhaps that’s it, have you tried hitting something else?
Anf

try running the game as Admin if the tutorial is looping, worked for me.
Sludge

@Ezuku
I’ve tried all buttons and nothing works.

@Anf
That might very well be the problem. I’ve only tried to play in school and we don’t exactly get the freedom of the Admin when we want to use the computors.