If you loved the dark, brutalist atmosphere ofControland the mysterious air ofAlan Wakebut craved a more run-and-gun experience, you will loveFBC: Firebreak.
FBC: Firebreakis a three-player co-op shooterthat bringsDOOM-esque combat to a grim goofiness reminiscent ofLethal Company.
The game was announced as part of theXbox October Partner Preview, and places you and your friends as agents of the Federal Bureau of Control.
Your job is delightfully simple: if something isin the wrong dimension, you blow it to smithereens.
The items coming toFBC: Firebreakare varied, including normal items such as a hand-cranked Gatling gun, ora garden gnome that turns living beings from biology into chemistry as it explodes.
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Remedy communications lead Thomas Puha has noted that the tools you get inFBC: Firebreakare not your classic consequence-free power-ups.
You carry the box, you point it at something, you open the box, and you just kind of hope the jaguar doesn’t turn around and eat you or your friends instead.
-Thomas Puha, Remedy Comms Officer
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The idea behindFBC: Firebreakis to make agame that is fun and accessible to play with friends but with a guilt-free progression systemto keep players engaged.
Puha emphasized that there will be no need for “logging in every day for some loot or fear of missing out” so it seems thatFBC: Firebreakwants to avoid the usual FOMO baiting that is unfortunately endemic tomodern live service games.
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Despite its goofy-doomercore fusion appearance, FBC: Firebreak has a plot, and it is set between the events ofControlandControl 2.
Most of the game is set in the Federal Bureau of Control’s Oldest House, a shape-shifting brutalist masterpiece that could easily fit in the heart of East Berlin.
At the same time, director Mike Kayatta makes it clear that FBC: Firebreak is neither aDLCnor a sequel to Control despite taking place in the same universe.
I guess you could say that it’s a spin-off, but in the most positive sense of the word. […] FBC: Firebreak is its own, fully formed thing.
-Mike Kayatta, FBC: Firebreak Game Director
FBC: Firebreakwill launch in 2025 for Xbox Series X and S, and PC, available on Xbox Game Pass from day one.
