David Sears, the former SOCOM director, is looking to bring tactical shooting back to its PlayStation 2-era roots with H-Hour: World's Elite . His new development house, SOF Studios, is seeking $200,000 via Kickstarter to create a prototype to prove its worth to potential investors.

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“ Shooters don’t have to be about long cutscenes or pointless “wow” moments.

The shooter draws on SOCOM's third-person shooting with first-person options, as well as high levels of lethality, and emphasizes teamwork -- it's multiplayer-centric, after all. This project comes one year after Sears' departure from Ubisoft Montreal, where he was the creative director on Rainbow 6: Patriots, which has recently been rumored to have been canceled. If you wondered what might have been, H-Hour could be the next best thing.Presently, the plan is for the first two years of H-Hour's life to offer additional downloadable content at least twice per year. H-Hour is tentatively expected to launch on PC in January 2015 with at least six maps, four modes, and a set of "community building/clan management tools."Will you support a different kind of shooter in the age where Call of Duty is king?

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