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Remedy unveil wacky co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak, set in the Control universeProject Condor revealed
Project Condor revealed
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Image credit:Remedy
Anyway, Firebreak! Here’s the announcement trailer.
FBC: Firebreak – Official Announcement Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview October 2024Watch on YouTube
FBC: Firebreak – Official Announcement Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview October 2024
These are to be used more carefully than the average video game ultimate, according to Remedy comms boss Thomas Puha. “I like to think of them as a jaguar in a box,” he told the Wire. “You carry the box, you point it at something, you open the box, and you just kind of hope the jaguar doesn’t turn around and eat you or your friends instead.”
Schrödinger’s Jaguar, then? Yes, this is commendably Control-esque.
Firebreak will evolve over time with post-release content, but Puha is reluctant to call it a game-as-a-service, with all the associated baggage. “FBC: Firebreak should be easy to get into and quickly understandable, not feel like a second job or that you have to spend an hour setting up your loadouts etc. before you get into a session,” he told the site. “This is not that game. It’s a pick-up-and-play experience [about] having fun with your friends when you have the time. That’s not to say that FBC: Firebreak doesn’t have deep player progression and things to unlock, it does, but this isn’t about logging in every day for some loot or fear of missing out on materials.”
Firebreak does have some kind of narrative component - it’s set after the events of Control, and as such, presumably harkens forward to the events ofControl 2. It’ll try for a similar balance of absurdity and horror in its writing and atmosphere. But it’s not the same kind of story-driven game.
“That said, you will see more of Control’s world,” he went on. “More of the Federal Bureau of Control. Meet more of the people who work there. Explore more of the Oldest House. Run into more weird stuff. And importantly, experience this world, old and new, from a completely different perspective.”
