Ukraine-based unbiased video games studio Reburn have simply introduced a brand new shooter, La Quimera, which I’d summarise as Name Of Obligation: Superior Warfare and Cyberpunk 2077 enjoying kiss-chase within the near-future jungles and neon sprawls of Latin America. It’s acquired world and narrative writing from Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, and is playable in single participant with three-person co-op help. Right here’s a trailer.
Who’re Reburn precisely? Apparently, they’re a rebrand of former Metro builders 4A Video games Ukraine, with 110 folks on the books together with “lead gameplay designers, artists, sound engineers, programmers, and extra from throughout your entire Metro sequence”. The mission lead is Sasha Kostiuk, who was gameplay and AI designer for Metro 2033 and Metro Final Gentle and Exodus. Reburn’s CEO and founder is Dmytro Lymar, beforehand director and CEO of 4A Video games Ukraine.
Whereas all this may increasingly appear fairly cut-and-dried, there’s really scope for some confusion about who and what’s or isn’t 4A Video games. I requested the PR for clarification and have now been educated. To briskly recap, 4A Video games started life in Ukraine again in 2006, engaged on Metro 2033. In 2014, a portion of the crew cut up off to discovered a brand new studio in Malta in response to political instability in Ukraine.
The 2 studios retained shut connections, nevertheless, agreeing to share the 4A Video games trademark and 4A’s engine expertise. They collaborated on Metro Exodus. Then, in 2020, celebrated mass-redundancy peddlers Embracer purchased 4A Video games Malta. Round about the identical time, 4A Video games Ukraine acquired funding for an unique mission, La Quimera. Now, they’re engaged on it as a completely separate outfit – although they’re eager, naturally, to money in on their affiliation with the Metro sequence.
Returning to La Quimera, it casts you as “a down-on-their-luck PMC soldier” with a customisable exosuit. “Followers of the Metro sequence will get pleasure from acquainted tense gunplay and intimate storytelling mixed with new sport experiences by way of distinctive and extremely detailed environments, characters and weapons,” feedback the discharge.
My ideas proper now are 1) I get the gentlest frission of Gears Of Battle’s squad narrative from the quieter elements of the trailer, and a couple of) these weapons are so wildly overfaceted I can’t resolve which bit is the enterprise finish. It’s like they have been crafted from Rubix cubes. The greebling seems to be consuming the wielder’s arms. I dread to assume what graphics card adverts appear to be in La Quimera’s cyberpunk future.
Discover out extra about La Quimera on Steam. Launch date as but there’s none.
