Why Embark Is Making The Finals, Another First-Person Shooter In A Sea Of FPS Games
The folks at the helm at Embark Studios are no strangers to shooters--most are ex-DICE developers who worked on the Battlefield series--and the team is sticking to their guns (heh) for their first two projects, Arc Raiders and The Finals. The Finals, a free-to-play first-person shooter with an emphasis on environmental destruction and teamplay, is scheduled to launch first and looks a whole lot more like the high-octane action in the Battlefield series. It's the type of game Embark co-founder and chief creative officer Rob Runesson thought he'd left behind.
«To be completely honest, I didn't, or we didn't think that we would ever build a first-person shooter game again,» Runesson said during a preview event for The Finals. «But after a year or so we actually started talking a little bit about first-person shooters among ourselves again and questions started growing in the studio.»
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According to Runesson, the team brainstormed about why the first-person shooter genre felt stale and not as fun for them. The studio believes that innovation has stalled in the genre, preventing new types of fun from being created.
«After talking for, I don't know, a couple of weeks, or three weeks, we actually said fun [was missing],» Runesson said. «There might be things [in first-person shooters] that no one had tried before. Why shouldn't we give it a shot? So we took six people, we put them on the sixth floor and we worked for six months and we said, 'Yes, let's try to see if we
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