Takedown: Red Sabre was supposed to revive the tactical shooter genre but it failed miserably after the publisher forced the developers to release the game before it was anywhere near finished. The game had initially gotten over $221,000 from Kickstarter supporters but the final product wasn't anything like the developers had envisioned. This game was launched before it was anywhere near completed, by the company's own admission, in a cash grab by the publisher. Do not buy it. The company has moved on to new projects like Epsilon and this game is no longer supported, meaning that the developers do not intend to release further patches or content for it.

A summary of the situation is below.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=401409417

Do you like ultra hardcore realistic tactical shooters that border on masochistic, giving you the ability to pretend you're a military genius capable of clearing an entire room of enemies with a single bullet ricocheting off walls?

Don't get this game, buggy, unresponsive and downright crap. The AI is barely functional and has the incredible ability to spot and kill you through walls. Constantly. Moving a single step even crouched can alert an entire map to your position. Endlessly trawling through dull, drab environments looking for the solitary last enemy alive only to be sniped with a pistol through several brick walls across the map IS NOT FUN. Dropping an Action Man in to a blender and recording it in Slow-Motion is definitely more fun than this. Save your £3.99 for anything else.*

*Not literally anything.

10% skill
20% luck
15% concentrated power of will
50% rage
5% pain
& 0% reason to purchase this game..

So I got this game as a gift recently. Even as a free gift from a friend, this game is not worth playing.
Giving your friend a gift of this game is akin to giving him a boxed present that is filled to the brim with droppings from a variety of different animals combined.
Where can one begin on a game of so many failed things?
The controls are stiff and uncomfortable, to start off. Think "Rainbow Six", except not good. Movement is a chore and no matter how slow you move, the AI seems to detect you through eight layers of concrete and steel without problem, even though you are making no noise on your end - The disconnect between what you hear and what the enemies can hear is severely disruptive. You can move faster, but it does not help, nor is it advised. You will always run straight into one of the AI juggernauts I will cover shortly. The gunplay is abhorrent; barely tolerable. Every weapon feels, handles, and operates the same way (no differentiation between firearms) and are thoroughly unenjoyable to use or fire. The sounds are bland, stock, generic. . . etc. Any word you can imagine to describe forgettable sounds applies here. I can't think of a single sound that made me feel immersed, excited, thrilled, or anything you would WANT to feel about sound. The sound design in this game is on par with Rainbow Six. That game came out in 1998.
And so we get to the most offensive part of this game: the AI. The enemy AI, if you would even stoop so low to call it that, is beyond unbelievable. Not in the positive way, either. It's so bad it needs its own paragraph to discuss it. My average experience in this game upon loading a match up is seeing the first enemy in the level, maybe 15 seconds in, go from looking away from me, to instantly rotating 90 degrees towards me in a single frame, and then proceeding to headshot me from 50 feet away, ending my game instantly. They will either stand still and eat bullets for you, or annihilate you mercilessly and without a single modicum of realism in their actions. There is no middle ground. These are hellish terminators bent on the destruction of humankind, loaded up with aimbot and wallhack software, yet with nearly absent pathfinding and tactical skills. They are idiot savants who are expert marksmen yet walk into walls and freeze up upon trying to navigate the infinitely difficult obstacles of a simple wooden doorway.

This is not a fun game. This is barely even a game. I have difficulty in believing that people intentionally made something this horrid. I went into this wanting to like it, I truly did. It had the heritage of Rainbow Six and tactical squad gameplay behind it, devs who wanted to do the old series justice, and the potential that new technology and a fresh perspective could have brought to the genre. Instead, I was assaulted by an unplayable monstrosity that should have been put down by the evil scientists who created it before it broke loose from their lab.
After playing a while with my friend who gifted me the game, the only redeeming values I found about the entire game were these:
"Well, the models look pretty good."
"Aw dude, I can see your flashlight when you shine it. That's awesome."

When the only things I can commend about your work are the above, you know you have problems.
I do not recommend purchasing this game. Indeed, if you're reading this, go somewhere else for your tactical action needs. They will not be satisfied here.

TakeDown:RedSabre

this game promised to bring back tactical shooters and re-invent a now dead genre. Needless to say that this is not the case. lets break down why the game is so bad.

Gameplay:
Terrible squad and enemy Artificial intelligence. they spend more time shooting at walls than each other.
Meaningless customization: Three different armor types and multiple weapons that behaive exactly the same.
The enemies can one shot kill you, no matter where they hit you regardless of armor.

Interface:
very difficult to traverse menus.
Lack of visual settings

Misc:
Good luck setting up multi-player for friends.


Now lets look at some other points.

The price is currently set at $5.49 CDN, this is still way to much to buy this game for, in fact this is a game that you should not even accept as a gift. I bought 4 copies of this game for $5.49 TOTAL, so that my friends could suffer along with me.

and finally let me remind you of the awards section of the store page. (with my own commentary in brackets)
Awards

FPS Guru - Pax Prime'13 Most Innovative
The Most Innovative award is yet another indie title (Step your game up pax....). One of the great things about indie games is they always manage to be unique and bring something new to the table (Not always good). They're able to take the risks that triple A companies aren't. This is a company that has made the decision to skip following the generic shooter genre, let's get rid of levels(Maybe this is why there are only four maps...) , noob tubing, and throw in tactics (if by tactics they mean boredom) and strategy (and by strategy they mean endless buyers remorse) instead. Serellan LLC certainly deserves this award for (Ruining) their tactical shooter, Takedown: Red Sabre. (The name of the game also doubles as a request to valve)

Takedown: Red Sabre encourages the player to communicate with their team mates (by yelling at the npcs for walking into walls) and take on each mission differently (in exactly the same fashion) , in their hope to survive. don't expect to be running and gunning down the hallways, because (good luck finding anyone to shoot) there's no respawning(apart from the fact that you turn into team mates after death). It's a (Dis)pleasure to see a return to the tactical shooter and what appears to be a(n) (un)successful return. Once I got my hands on Takedown: Red Sabre it was difficult to stop. (Because the menus wouldent let you.)

This game should not be classified as a game, as it is an unfinished product a later alpha at best, if you have the misfortune of owning it, look in the games main folder it says "Early Access" that should tell you the amount of effort alone.

The AI can range from completely stupid, to unrealistically accurate, the game is riddled with various menu bugs, such as when you choose a level you don't always get the level you choose, and in addtion the inventory system rarely saves. I could never recomend this "Game" to anyone espically when the games it clams to be based off are vastly superior, even now Swat 4 is a better game, a 2004 game is better then this, even Swat 3 is better because it's AI was at least competent as far as team AI goes, IE: Checking corners by leaning.

And the biggest culprit of all to this bad game is the devlopers who blame their community for "Not being hardcore enough" they don't even have the gumption to admit their game is severely underdevloped compaired to the games they "Based" their game off of. If your thinking of buying this, just don't there are at most 3 servers if you are lucky, mostly none though.

DO NOT BUY. BUY INSURGENCY INSTEAD.

They sold an unfinished game, but advertised it as finished. Its really bad. And it also damages similar games' reputations, when they are much better. They did make small fixes after about a week of it being out, so we could ACTUALLY USE THE SERVER BROWSER, but by the time it was done, no one played. And for good reason.

DO. NOT. BUY.
I pre-purchased this pile of poo. Never again.

"Takedown: Red Sabre is largely unfinished but may have potential if it was finished"

As a fan of tactical FPS games such as Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon and Arma I was excited to hear about Takedown: Red Sabre. Unfortunately, the game failed to live upto the hype, which was promised by the developers, as being a realistic tactical FPS. In almost every area of the game it's clear to see that the game was rushed with apparently no time spent whatsoever for polishing or improving the game before it's release.

In terms of gameplay, majority of the game is actually there but it's poorly implemented. Enemies range from being completely unaware of you to being deadly accurate. The friendly AI is almost completely lacking, which makes singleplayer completely unenjoyable. However, the game's core mechanics are in fact there, which means that there is a small amount of fun to be had if you choose to play the game with friends. But be aware, there is no way to create private matches and there are no online games available at all at the time of writing this review. If you can live with some 'small' ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ such as the unbelievably slow walking speed, the fact that any height can kill you and the AI the game is playable but it just doesn't live up to what the developers promised.

The level design is one of the few aspects of the game that appears to have been properly thought out with levels that feature tight hallways and open spaces which might create a tactical FPS if the game's mechanics were equally polished. The graphics aren't terrible (on low settings) and even lower end machines should be able to handle the game pretty easily.

Overall, Takedown: Red Sabre is largely unfinished but might have some potential to live up to it's promises if someone took the time to finish it and give it the polish it desperately needs.

The best thing about this game is the uninstaller works great!!!