Remedy Entertainment properly revealed its first-ever multiplayer game, FBC: Firebreak, just yesterday, and it’s trying to dodge the same fate as countless other online games by getting the shooter into as many hands as possible from the get-go.
FBC: Firebreak might ring a bell if you’ve ever played the studio’s freaky action game Control. The upcoming co-op shooter looks just as wonderfully weird and frantic because it’s actually set in the same paranormal Federal Bureau of Control homebase called the Old House, which should explain all the yellow post-it notes everywhere, as up to three firebreakers shoot through what looks like very Left 4 Dead-style missions.
FBC: Firebreak – Official Announcement Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview October 2024 – YouTube Watch On
Remedy is keen to avoid the pitfalls of other modern multiplayer games, though. Communications director Thomas Puha tells Xbox Wire that the team didn’t want players to feel like logging in every day is a
FBC: Firebreak, the Control FPS, is only the second game to ever launch into Xbox Game Pass and PS Plus on day one
