Alpha Response

aside from remaining performance issues, the key issue I find is the lack of polish. the sensitivity maps strangely, the game resembles a massive asset flip, the tutorial bugs out easily, and a series of other areas that need improvement. I do like the format of the game, and I actually find the gunplay uniquely satisfying, but the developers absolutely need to dial their focuses on creating a more solid base experience, before they begin expanding on that experience by adding things like new units and whatnot. There is a good formula here, it just needs to be refined. But for the moment, I would not say this game is worth the price it asks. I will also add that the game DOES NOT NEED RAYTRACING ARE YOU PEOPLE INSANE THE GAME ALREADY HAS PERFORMANCE ISSUES THIS IS LIKE GIVING A DROWNING MAN WEIGHTS.

I have a very unique experience with this game because Alpha Response is set in a city that is very clearly Porto, Portugal… which is where I live and work. So yes, I can confirm: I have now participated in a tactical police operation approximately 20 meters from my office entrance. 10/10 immersion, very stressful work commute. The map is actually surprisingly accurate in many areas. Some parts look like Porto, others look like Porto after an earthquake designed by someone who saw Portugal once on Google Images, but overall it’s really fun and weirdly familiar to play in. Now about the game itself: The AI has the tactical intelligence of a microwave. Enemies sometimes have the durability of a washing machine. The game is a bit buggy. And there is currently very little content — you can see most of the game in 1–2 hours, and then you replay the same areas to unlock more weapons. Also, if the game is set in Portugal, please give us Portuguese police and military equipment. While in Portugal, be Portuguese. Overall, the game has a lot of potential and the foundation is actually good, but right now, being in Early Access and the overall state, it's not worth a full 20€. I will recommend it — but more in a “keep an eye on it” way than a “buy immediately” way. If you ever wanted to clear terrorists outside a Portuguese café, this is the game for you.

This is one of those instances where I wish I could leave a Mixed review. I see the potential of this game, I was getting Payday 2 vibes from playing it except instead of playing as criminals you are the police. The developers are still updating the game and doing bug tests, so despite the miniscule player numbers they're still trying to improve the game which is commendable, I do want to see this game get better, I had it on my wishlist for quite a while. I can see this being an excellent co-op game but because of the lack of a playerbase this is a game you NEED friends to play with. The game does let you play with bots and the AI is competent enough, but I only picked up this game because I was told about it from friends and that Gooseman worked on it, who is just a designer according to the Wiki. So I decided to try the game out and stream it to my three friends on Discord to see if at any point the four of us would play the game together, and after an hour and a half of playing, we all came to an agreement that yeah... this game is rough as ♥♥♥♥. I told them to just hold off on buying it. Where do I even start? Well this is an FPS game, so I'll start with the shooting. This game has by far, not even a joke, some of the worst shooting mechanics I think I've ever felt in a shooter game. I'll start with the aiming. Starting off, my hipfire sensitivity was WAY too high, so then I turn it down, but then my ADS sensitivity becomes WAY too slow. But even if I crank up my ADS sensitivity all the way up to 100, it's still too slow, so then I crank my hipfire sensitivity back up again, and guess what? Now my hipfire sensitivity is way too high again. So basically, no matter what I set my sensitivity to, the aiming just feels awful. Combine this with the high recoil no matter what gun you're using, and shooting at enemies genuinely feels like ♥♥♥♥. It's even worse when an enemy has someone hostage and held at gunpoint, which requires you to be precise, and yet, many times I end up killing the hostage on accident, and also, you gotta put multiple rounds into an enemy, even their head, just to kill them. It also doesn't help that this game doesn't have kill markers with enemies that are bullet sponges on the default settings, so most of the time I'm shooting at an enemy but I can't tell if they're dead or not because of the insane amounts of blood and ragoll physics. Sometimes the hitmarkers bug out and I still get them even after I killed someone, so I'm just wasting bullets. Now I gotta talk about the terrible optimization. The first thing I did when I booted up this game was go into the tutorial so I can learn the basics and also adjust my sensitivity, and what happened? I went to lower my sensitivity, and as I was about to exit the pause screen, the game crashed and my PC hard crashed and needed to be restarted which rarely ever happens. And even though I am well above the recommended spec requirements, the game still runs like hot ass at times, I still get frequent studders and frame drops depending on how much is on screen even at 1080p Medium settings, DLSS on Performance Mode, and Nvidia Reflex is set to On. At one point after finishing a mission, out of nowhere for seemingly no reason my FPS dropped down to as low as 10 for a minute. There was even an instance where I was in the shop and purchased a weapon, and after clicking the buy button the game hard froze for a good 15 seconds, I genuinely thought the game crashed again. Just for the record, these are my specs: CPU: Ryzen 7 3800X GPU: GeForce RTX 3060 RAM: 32GB DDR4 And yet if I turn my graphics down to Low, the game's graphics bug out a lot. I get glitchy textures and shadows, and the only option for Anti-Aliasing is SSAO. Overall the game genuinely looks worse than a mobile game when set to Low. This game also has bugs. For example, the game only lets you carry 4 medical syringes, and yet the shop still lets you keep buying them which is what I did thinking I could carry more, so I was literally just wasting money. I've also gotten shot and killed from enemies inside of walls. You get money from completing missions, and then you use that money to buy guns, attachments, throwables, healing items, and armor. The shop itself is fine aside from that one issue, and as you level up you unlock more guns, attachments, and even cosmetics for your officer. The driving? Jank as hell, even after turning the driving sensitivity all the way up. Any little thing that you hit, even if it seems like you can just run over it, just causes your car to come to an immediate stop, not to mention hitting anything can cause the car to swivel and lose momentum. It doesn't help that there are pedestrian vehicles everywhere. The car also tends to get stuck a lot. It reaches a point where it's actually faster to just run to the mission on foot. This is by far the jankiest game I've played in a very long time, it just felt broken in the most important areas. Again, I hope it gets better, and the devs seem passionate about what they're working on, but even for an Early Access game, this game seriously needs work. I would imagine the devs read the reviews so I'm hoping they see this feedback. The shooting and the optimization needs improving more than anything else, because if the shooting feels clunky and unresponsive and the game runs like crap for me, someone who plays quite a lot of shooter games, then I highly doubt it'll be any better for others, especially the people in my own friend group which was the whole reason I picked up this game to begin with. Even on a sale, I would wait on buying this game. If they succeed and the game does end up getting a playerbase then I would recommend it.

ultimately the concept is so phenomenal, and as a huge fan of Battlefield Hardline, I would totally vouch for this game, I wish I really could, but the approach and delivery was abysmal. I can totally excuse jank, most of my favorite games are absolute jank, but Alpha Response has the worst performance imaginable, and playing through it surprisingly makes me dizzy, like I'm actually getting motion sickness from this damn flat screen game. I think it mostly has to do with the stuttering movement on the camera when you look around. I've read that this was developed by the person who created the Counter-Strike mod which essentially made Counter-Strike what it is today. That's major influence and being a part of something bigger than expected, So I'd imagine he would create a more polished experience. Not sure what the engine its running on but it's horrendous. Mind you, I did have fun playing it. It is totally chaotic, but for someone who pretty much started Counter-Strike, this one is nothing but a huge let down and disappointment.

I cant believe it. TacInt 2. Minh Le does it again. As of March 12 2026: You can now Judo slam criminals! This is Democracy Manifest!

Gooseman's next masterpiece

I'll support my goat Mr. Minh Le any day, but it's lowkey mid (the differing mouse sensitivity scaling is egregious). It's like an alternate universe Tactical Intervention with some innovative concepts but worse fundamentals.

Worried that you missed out on the extreme batsh|t jank that was 2014's Tactical Intervention? Minh Le thinks so!

Oynanışıyla optimizasyonuyla her şeyiyle yarrağımdan hallice bir oyun.

I completely understand what this game is trying to be.. kinda. If you missed out on Tactical Intervention (or only got to play a small bit of it like I did) then this game is seeking to fill that space for you. The BIG problem with that is Alpha Response is singleplayer/co-op, and the year is 2026. Not only have gaming standards evolved, but it seems like the lead designer's philosophy has stayed the same crazy nonsense overload it's been since TI shut down. Enemies are endlessly dispatched upon you and your squad like an army of Terminators. Your only respite is that these Terminators are not programmed to be very smart, for better and for worse. Every action is clunky, you have a million things to worry about at any given moment, and to top it all off, the game's performance is all over the place. I know my rig is OLD now, but if it's going to run like this, I'd at least want it to look a little better :P And here's the reason I'm giving it a thumbs up: This game is not FOR me. Yeah, it's got some objective downsides, but this game is $20 dude. I got in on it when it was on sale for $10! That's a pretty low bar for entry if you're into this kind of janky chaos. I can especially tell the team has been working hard trying to get this game to be as good as it can be. I'm always seeing new updates in the top of my Steam library page, and I really respect the effort. Most of all, this game reminds me of a messy Source Engine mod.. seems like a lost art nowadays, and I think it's great to have at least one game from the last few years evoke that feeling. (Even if I hated playing it)