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Fortune's Run is one of PC Gamer's most anticipated games of 2023, a fast-paced, acrobatic FPS/immersive sim in a grungy sci-fi future that's like the original Deus Ex meets the Star Wars Expanded Universe. In a new trailer at the PC Gaming Show, Team Fortune shows off some of the new features coming to the game's free demo, as well as its early access release date of September 1.
Fortune's Run's new trailer begins with a slapstick kerfuffle of a docking sequence at the game's "fully simulated centrifugal gravity space station level," before cutting to the interior of the shuttle where protagonist Mozah is quickly recognized and a firefight ensues. We get a combat sizzle reel showing off new enemies and locations coming in the game's early access release, as well as a peek at some new features added to Fortune's Run's demo that you can play right now.
The big ticket item is dual wielding, which Team Fortune told me to think of «like power stancing» in FromSoftware games. «Some weapons allow you to carry a second one [offhand], which opens up a new moveset and/or a greater ammo pool.
»However, you can only use the power stance until you run out of ammo, because you can't reload with both hands full."
Previewing the revamped demo, I noticed Fortune's Run now has more optional tutorials and a gentler onramp in general for new players, but that's balanced with cannier enemy AI that had me scrambling for healing items way more often.
But all of that's secondary to the new basketball minigame. Fortune's Run already opened with a Looking Glass-style, physics-simulated b-ball court, but now there's an NPC you can one-on-one with and this guy can hoop. He had me like «Mom, can you pick me up? I just went 11-0 against a frog man
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