Sharkmob announce Exoborne, an open world PvPvE shooter featuring exo-rigs and tornadoes

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Do you like paragliding, exosuits, loot, and tornadoes? Do you like all of those things at once? Then you might enjoy the just-announced Exoborne, a tactical open world shooter from Sharkmob, the Swedish studio behind Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt. Running on Unreal Engine 5 and set in fictional, near-future Colton County, USA, it's a PvPvE affair in which you roam a big ruined map either alone or as a team, fighting other players, NPCs and renegade "natural" elements. Published by Level Infinite, it'll be a premium game with live service elements and microtransactions, and there's no release date yet. I caught a briefing before today's announcement, and yeah, it looks all right.

Exoborne takes place following a global collapse triggered by something called Project Rebirth, which was itself launched to stave off some kind of environmental disaster. Rather than saving the world, Project Rebirth has royally pissed off the weather and produced what creative director Petter Mannerfelt called a "dramatic playground where everything is broken and turned upside down".

As a "Reborn" warrior akin to one of Destiny's Guardians, you get an exo-rig that lets you jump really high, grapple onto stuff and deploy a parachute, the better to roam this post-apocalyptic landscape and pick it clean of valuables. The game is played in third-person but switches to first-person gunsights view when you aim. Aesthetics-wise, it's sort of Anthem played to the tune of PUBG. The environment is awash with shattered, weed-hung bridges, monstrous silver "Stratos" towers, and what look like beached oil rigs. Exo-rig powers aside, you can make use of ziplines and ride around in buggies, the better to evade those pesky tornadoes.

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