In these busy days of live service multiplayer games it's always good to have a few singleplayer shooters on your radar, and today a new FPS was announced from VG Entertainment, headed up by former Stalker: Call of Pripyat dev Ruslan Didenko.
Forest Reigns is an 'emergent' FPS set in a post-apocalyptic Paris not ravaged by war or radiation but plantlife. The City of Light has been reclaimed by nature: vines choke the lamp posts, greenery grows up the sides of buildings, grass covers the asphalt, and a massive, twisted tree trunk winds itself around La Tour Eiffel.
Mother Nature is back and she seems pretty pissed off. You're there too, with some high-tech weaponry and a few tricks to turn these weird sentient plants into your allies.
In this gameplay trailer secured by IGN, we see a few brief firefights against enemy agents where the player uses all that invasive greenery to their advantage.
Popping a round into a giant root causes it to expand, giving the player cover to crouch behind while shooting. Glowing orange orbs also sprout from the trunk which, when shot, will explode, burning your enemies.