The phenomenon of free games to play is now taking strong foot in length and breadth within the gaming industry. Up to now, these games had names are far from the most renowned brands and were characterized by very low production values. As for the shooter, something has changed recently, because of the arrival of big titles such as Quake Live, Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, the massive Team Fortress 2 or the upcoming Ghost Recon: Online. The Zombie Studios have not given up though and after the mediocre Blacklight Tango Down, released on PC and consoles in 2010, they quickly put a sequel in the pipeline. Due to the change of publishers, who now spends part in the expert hands of purely online games from Perfect World, the name by which it was announced Blacklight Blacklight 2 was changed to: Retribution. Thus we find with our review if this title will be able to get noticed in the now over-saturated market of first-person shooter.
Blacklight Retribution PS4 operations will continue without official support but the game's PC version has been shut down.
Shut the servers down but let people host their own and keep these games active for those who want to play. Its bullshit when they kill a game completely when they could easy patch it for hosting / creating online content
Hardsuit Labs has mentioned that the Blacklight Retribution servers are shutting down on March 11 for PC, though PS4 version will continue as is. All items in the PC store are now free.
Remember playing this when I first got a ps4. Never good news to see games shut down I guess one day online only games can bite the dust
This is why buying into these sort of games are a bad idea.
See this is why online mp only games effing sucks and definitely will never support them. ;)
Depending how much of a cult following it has, it could be revived by some mod team in the distant future. Similar cases have happened with games like 2142 and Star Wars Galaxies.
Blacklight Retribution review with screenshots and videos.