Umbrella Corps also features a one-hit-kill melee weapon, much like the knife attack that pervades the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare titles. There's even a wall-running, ledge-climbing traversal system similar to those of Call of Duty: Black Ops III. Yes, Umbrella Corps presents things from an over-the-shoulder perspective as opposed to COD's first-person view. And because of its tense single-elimination rounds and close-quarters combat, Umbrella Corps feels more like Call of Duty than anything else. In fact, were it not for recognizable locations from the series' lore, and a handful of lumbering zombies strewn across its maps, Umbrella Corps could be mistaken for a brand new IP from developer Capcom.ĭuring a recent demo at PAX 2016, I got the chance to play several multiplayer matches in the 3v3 Team Battles Mode. He insists the military’s move on October 25 “was not a coup” but a push to “rectify the course of the transition” as factional infighting and splits deepened between civilians from the FFC and the military under the now-deposed government.Umbrella Corps is not Resident Evil canon, nor is it a survival/horror game.
Since the power grab, Burhan has overseen sweeping changes in multiple sectors including in education and banking which were seen by many in Sudan as a way to entrench the military’s control. The statement called for the reinstatement of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who was briefly detained and later placed under house arrest following the military takeover. “The Troika (Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States), the European Union, and Switzerland are gravely concerned by the purported appointment of Sudan’s Sovereign Council,” they said on Friday. The UN has criticised the military’s latest “unilateral” step, while Western countries said it “complicates efforts to put Sudan’s democratic transition back on track”. The newly named council features several new and little-known figures to represent civilians.īut it excludes any members of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), an umbrella alliance which spearheaded the 2019 anti-Bashir protests, and the main bloc calling for a transition to civilian rule.
Three former rebel leaders who were members of the ousted Sovereign Council and were appointed in the new one but did not attend the ceremony. They had previously rejected the military coup. On Friday, military figures and new civilian members of the new ruling council were sworn in before Burhan following its formation the day before. The committees have called for multiple protests since the coup and mobilised crowds via text messages as Sudan has largely remained under a rigorous internet outage with phone lines intermittently disrupted.īut despite the efforts, “civilian opposition to the coup has been diffuse and fragmented”, Jonas Horner of the International Crisis Group said in a report last week.Ī crackdown on demonstrations so far has left dead at least 15 people, according to an independent union of medics, leading to punitive measures by the international community. Saturday’s planned demonstrations have largely been organised by informal groups known as “resistance committees” in neighbourhoods and towns across the country which emerged during the anti-Bashir demonstrations in 2019. “In light of tomorrow’s demonstrations in #Sudan I once again call upon the security forces to exercise utmost restraint and respect the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression,” said UN Special Representative for Sudan Volker Perthes. The United Nations called on Sudanese security forces to refrain from violence ahead of Saturday’s protests. They also blocked roads leading to the army headquarters in Khartoum, the site of a mass sit-in protest in 2019 that led to the ouster of autocratic president Omar al-Bashir, said the correspondents.