A Way Out

Electronic Arts announces a new story-driven co-op game, A Way Out

Electronic Arts has just revealed a new game called A Way Out. A Way Out is a two-player experience in which each player controls one of the main characters, working together to escape the prison and continue beyond into each character’s lives.

A Way Out will support both couch and online co-op. Do note that this game will require two players, and EA did not reveal whether it will be playable in single-player (with the second player being controlled by AI).

A Way Out is currently planned for an early 2018 release.

Enjoy!

A Way Out Official Reveal Trailer

A Way Out Official Gameplay Trailer

29 thoughts on “Electronic Arts announces a new story-driven co-op game, A Way Out”

    1. Stop taking single player mode for granted, please.
      Some devs don’t have resources to make basically two games in one. It’s better to have one solid mode than two unplayable ones.
      And you know, different strokes for different folks. I personally like both SP and MP titles. They both provide two unique kinds of gaming experience.

    2. That’s fine. They want to make a compelling co-op game. Better they go all in and make that, rather than half-baked experience that allows for both.

      1. No you’re right. Dev decided that way for their own reasons. I won’t boycott the game because of their choice, it looks too fun for that but i’d prefer what you said.

      1. Even then, you’d have to wonder if said people who have big enough screens, were to have friends that were into not only the same game, but eager to play it at the same time and also be free from education/work.

        These days I find old fashioned split screen as being a checklist to filter through.

    1. And you think being always online is a bad thing in titles like this? It’s just this kind of game where it’s a must.

      1. I’m talking about the lacking options other than “play this online and enjoy until we pull the plug”.

        It’s not hard to notice that we’re steadily seeing more pubs and devs aiming for an online approach, where they control the game more and more and you end up paying more and owning less. MS pulled this at the start of the gen and got an a$$ whooping for it, but they kept that goal in their mind for years. Fast forward to now and we’re seeing more devs going for this approach, now it’s suddenly amazing and perfectly fine to force games with less options and more online based, which effectively gives all said games a defined expiry date. (unless we have private servers, but top kek to any AAA game that fully supports the modding/private server communities these days, that isn’t Valve).

    2. It has split screen, it’s not made by EA owned studio, and made with unreal engine

      You should make more research before you start judging ****

  1. Looks pretty good for a splitscreen game.

    If you just have to play a prison themed action adventure game right now, prison break the game is decent.

  2. It’s always nice to see such original titles being made. I’m afraid the game won’t have good replayability, though.

  3. Had my interest up until EA’s name was mentioned. Now I know that there is next to no chance of a DRM free release until maybe 10 years from now and zero chance of a Linux version.

  4. Looks really interesting but the probability you won’t end up with peole always quiting the game is extremely low.

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