This Is What LawBreakers Looks Like in Action

Kinda looks OK, but not enough for me.

Huh, that actually looks pretty awesome. Getting some oldschool Unreal Tournament vibes for sure.

There are more than a few of these on the way, will be interesting to see if any are actually fun.

My thoughts exactly when I saw this.

1. Overwatch
2. Battleborn
3. Star Wars Battlefront
4. Doom
5. Unreal Tournament

I'm sure that I missed a few. I'm looking forward to Battlefront, cuz I'm old, and still like Star Wars.

Getting a Dirty Bomb/Overwatch vibe from it. Kind of curious to know what sparked all these FPS class based games to start coming out all of a sudden. I can't exactly recall their being one in the last few years that got really popular that made developers want to go back and look into the genre.

whats the point of having a melodramatic story trailer if it's gonna play like Unreal Tournament? Like they didn't even need to have the text of lore about the Grand Canyon being destroyed when all I care about is Rocket Jumping like it's 1996.

It's kind of funny that the class based/ arena shooter is returning.

Happy for the folks who love these kinda games and are getting about 50 of them in the coming year, but this is where LawBreakers and I part ways. Looks me-too in every regard.

Was hoping for something weirder from this studio, though I know the risks of big-budget weirdness are too prohibitive to overcome these days.

Am I the only one noticing the 'MOBA-fication' of other games? Like in Law Breakers and Overwatch, you dont play a class but a named character with unique abilities. Just like champions in any other MOBA.

@bones8677: Or more or less what TF2 started in the Mp FPS genre. Granted their names were the classes, but you were playing a character.

Looks ok. I really hope that is the entire roster so they can balance the game properly.

It's just another F2P MP only shooter with maybe one or two unique things in it.

Not even slightly interested.

Unreal Tournament vs Q3 vs ......Bulletstorm?

Rocket-jump confirmed.

I guess the videogame market likes these types of games again.

If this game was running at twice or three-times the speed I'd be interested. All the arena-style shooters today all kind of play the same. Nothing really stands out in my mind.

IMO there are two ways that competitive shooters can really work:

- The hard core 1v1 approach with map control/awareness of your opponent (Quake)

- The objective based team mode where you need to be aware of what your team mates are doing and react accordingly (CS / MOBA)

Most of these new shooters seem to aim at the middle with FFA chaos and constant respawning all over the place with very little structure to the game. This really takes away alot of the competitive aspect and makes it a lot less engaging. I hope Law Breakers (sigh, that title) will be a great game but from what im seeing here i doubt it.

The overwhelming success of Gears was a "perfect storm" of conditions wherein the right game (with new novel mechanics) was released at the right time, on the right console (with the right player base), with players looking for/primed for another great shooter to follow Halo on the 360.

This looks... Meh.

I'm sure they've baited this trap with as much F2P/MOBA hooks as is possible; just from the look of things, and what little I've seen/heard/etc., I wouldn't bet on lightning striking twice for Cliffy.

Then again, it's F2P... Valve's made obscene amounts of money on F2P shooters (admittedly with more going on than this).

Its UT without vehicles.

This looks different enough from the new UT to have me interested to at least give it a shot. Looks fun to me!

Wow, a character whose special skill is shooting behind them finally i dont have to wait .2 seconds to turn around anymore

Valuation is always a weird concept, but this looks like a $20 download.

...k.

Eh, looks bland. Which, kind of the only thing Cliffy B's games had going for them for me was that they weren't bland.

Surprised everyone is so down on it. I actually came in here with that exact same attitude from all the screens I've seen but the gameplay looks actually really solid. It's the first one of these (online-only kinda oldschool shooter) that I actually might want to play.

Too bad some parts of it seem a little oldschool in that JNCO jeans oldschool kind of way if you know what I mean... (a little embarrassing)

Looks kinda 'meh' to me too, especially with so many similar products out there and on the way, but quality gameplay could change my mind.

The hints of Bulletstorm leave me optimistically curious.

I was pretty disappointed this is another one of those games like everyone else has mentioned. The whole class/role playing thing has never really appealed to me. I think Destiny may be the only game I'm invested in that uses classes in a multiplayer setting.

We'll see how this turns out I guess.

@nickhead: Sounds like that's your problem right there. 3 out of 4 Experts agree Destiny is bad for your health.

CHRONOS: SLIPKNOT FRONTMAN

I played this at PAX. I had to sign an NDA, but I'm allowed to say I played it and I am more than happy to inform you that it was an insanely fun demo.

I am interested to see more.

Mmmmm shooty

Looks neat but I feel like it's going to be overshadowed by stuff like Overwatch.

Eh I dunno. Seems a lot like Battleborn and Overwatch to me.

Okay, a shooter where each over the top 'named characters' makes 'groaner' quips after each kill....

No thanks.

Hey, I admire Cliffy for trying to get back into the game business, but that's just a 1999 idea that probably isn't going to fly today. If Cliffy wanted to make another Unreal Tournament style game...why leave Epic? That's what confuses me most about this, I thought leaving Epic would mean branching out a bit. Why make this?

There is a fine line to tread when your game characters scream "want some more asshole". Also, name characters like Kitsume, Breacher, Maverick, and Chronos is a bit lame in an era where players make their own unique characters, choose ethnicity, and choose dress them how they want.

So what is this game really selling, aside from flamboyant characters which scream taunts?

It has a bona-fide rocket jump. How long since we had that mechanic in a big new game?

This is literally TF2, and it shouldn't come as a massive surprise that the lines between class-based FPS and MOBA are becoming a bit blurry.
Both have a strong focus on different classes/characters/whatever with different capabilities participating in teamwork not for kills, but rather to capture objectives (which is assisted by killing the opposition, but capturing objectives, such as a point or a cart or flag, is always the end goal).

ok this looks good

Doom and UT are more traditionally universal weapon loadout shooters, not class specific based like those others and the former is more single player focused while the latter is more mp focused.

So I wouldn't consider either the same as those others and this. Quite differently balanced/playing shooters actually. Frankly all of them look kinda meh besides UT which I have high hopes for.

Ehhh. Kinda looks like Overwatch.

Looks too mindless for me.

@drmantistabogganmd: You're probably right - but I can't help it!

This looks like a dozen other games I've seen and passed on. No thanks.

When you're using a mouse and keyboard, you don't need a gimmick to shoot blindly behind you...

I stopped watching after I heard too many of the bots acting sassy and throwing out crappy insults. Not particularly interested in a shooter that wants to keep promoting people acting like assholes.

Oh my god, this looks awesome.

@megasheep: I've actually found it to be the other way around, in my experience, where the older folks tend to hate Star Wars and younger folks tend to like it.

Also I'm not a fan of Cliffy B, but this seems alright.

@spicyrichter: Looked a little Tribes-ey as well

Listen guys, from the maker of Gears and Unreal…I'm going to give this a shot at the very least.

Did somebody two years ago run into every video game exec boardroom and yell "GUYS TEAM FORTRESS 2 MAKES A TON OF MONEY. LETS MAKE GAMES LIKE TEAM FORTRESS BUT DIFFERENT."

@jackofhart: I think it was more the rise of Dota and LoL that brought this on. I think that their thought process is "Fuck it, I guess class based shooters are pretty much the same as MOBAs right?"

Oh great, more angsty, "badass" dialog. Didn't Cliff learn from Bulletstorm?