Overwatch and Battleborn: meet the new breed of cooperative first-person shooter games

▤ Summary

Ubisoft has brought Rainbow Six Siege and the all-new For Honor for gamers to try out in Cologne, while DICE used the show to debut a massive 20-player dogfight mode in Star Wars: Battlefront. The typical definition of a first-person shooter (FPS) game immediately brings to mind the Call of Duty series, where realism is prized and storylines revolve around plausible near-future scenarios. Thats what makes them so exciting and captivating, but its also what puts off many players who dont fancy spending their afternoon enjoying a first-person view of some bleak dystopia filled with dying screams and smoking shotgun shells. Not every shooting game has to make the player feel like a homicidal maniac Both Battleborn and Overwatch offer highly stylized playable characters with diverse abilities and roles. Personally, I have fallen in love with the design and gameplay of Battleborn: its instantly accessible and fun, and its heroes superhuman litheness means theres rarely a pause in the action.

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DICE Corporation

$10M to $25M