Embark Studios brings out the destruction with The Finals team-based shooter game
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Nexon’s Embark Studios has unveiled The Finals, a free-to-play, team-based first-person shooter that focuses on changing landscapes, destruction, and player freedom.
Inspired by battle royale literature, films, and games, The Finals is set in a world where people watch and participate in combat entertainment game shows. It’s like The Hunger Games, but it has also been inspired by entertainment like Squid Game, Battle Royale, American Gladiators, Running Man, Formula One, Smash TV, and other dystopian survival stories.
In this case, players compete for a chance at riches in The Finals, which represents the pinnacle of competition after escalating tournaments. The game features four teams of three players each, all competing against each other in shooter combat.
Gustav Tilleby, creative director, said in a press briefing that he also worked on the project from the beginning as one of the team’s first six developers.
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“The vision has been to make a team-based first person shooter that pushes environmental dynamism, and destruction, and player freedom to the very limits of possibility,” Tilleby said. “That’s what we set out to do. So we want to build a game that provides players with the tools to meaningfully interact, change and use the world as they play. So it’s a shooter. It’s a game where aiming and shooting is important. But it’s it’s also a game where the players that can use the environment and
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