The face of conflict is at all times altering, and Warface‘s newest face is skull-faced androids preventing faceless robotic drones on Mars, as a result of why not? Perhaps My.com have gotten their free-to-play shooter confused with Warframe? Either method, I’m at all times down for a bit of robot-on-robot laserfight motion. The new replace provides a brand new co-op mission set on the crimson planet, distant robotic our bodies to inhabit, zappy laser rifles and a swarm of latest mechanical enemy varieties. Yes, there’s even (robotic) spiders from Mars; the place’s Bowie if you want him? Below, a trailer.
Originally developed by Crytek, however now within the fingers of splinter studio Blackwood, Warface has been more and more leaning into its sci-fi facet for some time now, and that is the game’s largest leap. Back within the early days it was largely modern-day warfare with the occasional mech boss or power-armoured trooper to whittle down. Now gamers get to struggle cyber-mutants in Chernobyl and battle energy-shielded gunships on high of super-villainous tower laboratories. A becoming shift contemplating that the game lifted a lot of its fight from the extraordinarily over-the-top Crysis 3.
The Mars mission is round an hour lengthy, and has gamers hopping between their squishy meat-bodies on Earth and your robotic endoskeletons on Mars, culminating in a giant boss struggle. I’m all for shooters reinventing themselves. Warface has been experimenting for some time, transforming its (initially garbage) enterprise mannequin to one thing rather less exploitative, and including a Battle Royale mode some time again. As nicely as launching gamers into area, this replace contains the standard assortment of foolish new weapon skins, a brand new seasonal Battle Pass and the standard spherical of bug-fixes and steadiness tweaks.
You can see the full Mars update patch notes here. Warface is free-to-play, and accessible on Steam or direct from publisher My.com.
