Alien: Isolation studio Creative Assembly reveals its zero-G shooter, Hyenas

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In 2018, a job listing from Alien: Isolation studio Creative Assembly let slip that it was working on a tactical first-person shooter(opens in new tab); the following year, the studio officially confirmed it(opens in new tab). And now, all these years later, we're finally getting our first look at what the team has been up to: Hyenas is a «space piracy smash and grab» multiplayer FPS that pits five teams of three against each other in a quest to rob orbital shopping malls of booty picked from the bones of a broken Earth.

It's the future, you see, and billionaires, having done what they do, are now comfortably encamped on Mars. The zero-G tech they used to get there has unfortunately done a bit of a number on the Earth (which presumably wasn't in great shape to start with, or otherwise why would anyone bother going to Mars), leaving survivors to cling to existence in a floating slum called the Taint.

But life finds a way, as the saying goes, and in this case that «way» is to team up and bust into spaceborne warehouses called Plunderships, which the ultra-wealthy have packed full of merch, swag, loot, tat, and other kitschy crapola scavenged from the surface of the Earth by the oligarch diaspora, who are apparently desperate for reminders of life on their old home. Of course, cooperation in these endeavors only goes so far, which means that instead of everyone from the Taint working together to put the gears to the people responsible for their situation, five teams of three will battle royale each other to grab the goods and make their getaway.

(This is how billionaires rise to positions of unchallenged authority in the first place, you know.)

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