The Creative Assembly workforce behind Alien: Isolation has one other first-person recreation within the works, however this time it’s an authentic tactical shooter IP. Exactly what type the sport will take stays a thriller, although any hopes you may’ve had for an Alien sequel from the studio ought to now really be crushed – although something first-person from that workforce is effectively value getting excited for.
The new lead setting artist itemizing says that “Creative Assembly’s award-winning team behind Alien: Isolation are exploring new frontiers with a brand-new and exciting First Person Tactical Shooter IP.” Creative Assembly can also be in search of a technical animator, senior UI artist, and technical artist for the challenge. All these jobs are on the firm’s Horsham, UK location.
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This isn’t the primary time job listings have outed CA’s new IP. Last yr, their hiring attempts outed a recreation with “weapons, movement, abilities, gadgets, health and other underlying gameplay systems,” structured with some form of “economy, progression and retention methods, leaderboards, challenges, world building and events.”
Neither set of listings inform us a lot on their very own, however put collectively they paint not less than a imprecise image of what to anticipate. Namely, a tactical FPS that includes characters with numerous forms of skills and long-term mechanics and occasions designed to maintain you enjoying over an extended time frame. In different phrases, simply the type of recreation you’d count on to be in improvement in 2018.
It’s troublesome to gauge how deep in improvement this new IP is, although provided that hiring for the challenge – together with some elementary design roles – solely acquired seen in November, it might be very early. (But hey, for those who’re searching for work you may browse these listings for your self.) That means the sport might nonetheless be too far off to be proven at E3, however subsequent week’s conference might nonetheless be the location for an official announcement.
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