In case you have not been holding tabs on the dwell service house lately, it is a massacre. A feast or famine enterprise the place builders can both carry house some severe crash (see Helldivers 2), or drown in tumultuous waters just like the lately launched and sometimes mocked Harmony. For each recreation that succeeds, there are three that do okay, and 5 that fail. Heading into this house as soon as is dangerous, however to go once more following a failed first try? An act of bravery, or maybe of economic masochism.
That is the place of Sharkmob, a studio based by varied trade professionals together with lots of the massive names behind The Division and Hitman collection. A couple of years in the past, the Swedish workplace offered the world with Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodhunt. An bold Third-person battle royale, the sport positioned heavy emphasis on verticality and varied distinct vampire powers that set it other than its friends. The sport would stop improvement simply over a yr from its launch. Now they’re again with Exoborne, a sci-fi extraction shooter which clearly has a number of the bones of Bloodhunt transplanted in, alongside some contemporary concepts and a neat excessive climate element.
This yr at Gamescom, I used to be capable of see a hands-off gameplay demo fro Exoborne alongside different members of the press. The sport appeared entertaining sufficient, hitting all of the markers of a superb extraction shooter. That climate system gives alternative for fast motion throughout the map for sensible gamers, in addition to a powerful pressure that pushes gamers from stationary playstyles. However pretty much as good because it appears to be like, the shadow of Bloodhunt looms giant. That is why I requested CMCO and narrative director at Sharkmob Martin Hultberg what the workforce realized from their first try.
