Gearbox Introduces Battleborn

Gearbox, the company behind Borderlands, Borderlands 2, and… other games, I’m sure, has recently announced a new game via Game Informer: BATTLEBORN. Check out the trailer below.

While details are scarce at the moment, what we know so far is that it seems to be some kind of FPS MOBA with a focus on Co-op. But here, I’ll let the press release speak for itself:

2K and Gearbox Software – the genre-fusing masters behind the award-winning and best-selling Borderlands franchise – today announced that their next big original IP, Battleborn is in development for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Affectionately called a hero-shooter by the dev team, Battleborn combines frenetic first-person shooting with co-operative combat, and an expansive collection of diverse heroes to create an experience unlike anything you've played before. Set in a distant future, the only hope for the last star in a dying universe is a new breed of warriors who must put aside their differences to drive back an unstoppable menace. Players choose from a myriad of powerful heroes and fight together alongside their friends in a narrative-driven co-operative campaign, or battle against them in fast-paced competitive multiplayer matches.

Sounds promising. I like the premise, if nothing else, of a group of heroes defending the very last star in the universe from destruction, but other than that it’s pretty vague. The idea of it being a team-based game where you pick from a list of champions has a real MOBA feel to it, but maybe there’s some key differences between a MOBA and a “hero-shooter” we’re just not picking up at the moment. Either way, if it’s from Gearbox, who, again, made Borderlands, then it’s bound to be at least decent, right?

...oh god knowing my luck Handsome Jack will be in this game too.