Ignition Entertainment has revealed some new details about the back story, setting and weapons of their upcoming multiplayer-focused first-person-shooter Blacklight: Tango Down.The title is currently in development at Zombie Studios, and is an Unreal Engine 3.0-powered game set to release this summer via the Xbox LIVE Arcade, PlayStation Store, and through digital distribution channels on PC.

Blacklight: Tango Down is set in the near future and revolves around a special operations military group called “Blacklight.” Blacklight is the SECDEF’s (Secretary of Defense’s) personal direct action team comprised entirely of “Tier One Assets.” These elite soldiers are extraordinary operators recruited from all branches of special operations, including Combat Applications Group (Delta), SF, DEVGRU (SEAL), RANGER, and CIA MSP. All combatants are hand-selected and trained specifically to be equipped to deal with fast-moving, ambiguous and unstructured situations. This is the player’s role in the game.

The game’s near-future setting is not that different from our own, and will appear both hauntingly familiar and distant enough to be unsettling. It is a universe that has been overtaken by the exploding speed of technological progress and is left suffering from the unbridled failures that those advances create.