Gunzilla Games announced today Off The Grid, an all-new Battle Royale third-person shooter that will be using Unreal Engine 5. This new battle royale game will only come out on current-gen platforms, and targets a 2023 release date.
Set within a dystopian future, the cyberpunk-styled shooter plans to evolve the genre through strong emphasis on narrative progression, led by Chief Visionary Officer Neill Blomkamp and Script Writer Richard K. Morgan. In addition, industry veteran Olivier Henriot (Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed) assumes the role of Executive Narrative Director, ensuring a wealth of top-tier talent to bring the world of OTG to life.
Off The Grid will support fights with 150 players in PvP (Player Vs Player) skirmishes, as well as PvE (Player Vs Environment) storyline missions using the same map inhabited by other players in real-time. According to the press release, players have the freedom to control how the hard-boiled story unfolds, with each decision made directly impacting everyone’s gameplay. Core to the experience and deep narrative structure is the unique way in which players can craft, customize, and trade their in-game items with each other. In OTG, the lines between hero and villain become blurred as players fight to survive the covert corporate battles of the future.
Neill Blomkamp said:
“With OTG, our ambition is not only to create the Battle Royale 2.0 by adding deep player progression, but to build an evolving world designed to take on a life of its own, changing in unexpected ways each time a player rejoins the game. With an innovative approach to the Battle Royale core session flow and a deep narrative experience, we add purpose to each element of the game, allowing players to revisit the OTG world repeatedly where there is always something new to find and explore, and for us to expand upon.”
Enjoy the following teaser trailer and stay tuned for more!
https://youtu.be/x6InNyCE2Rc
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I gotta admit I’m kinda interested after hearing Neill Blomkamp is involvled.
Same here, dude knows how to do sci-fi
“”…an all-new Battle Royale third-person shooter that will be using Unreal Engine 5.””
Stopped reading after that. Another BR genre game says it all. These are just quick ”cash grab” games being released by devs/publishers today, because they know these will sell like hotcakes as with any online MP title.
They are wasting the potential of UE 5 if you ask my opinion, but hey why will they care about a good SINGLE player or solo storyline campaign, when it’s a proven fact that majority of the younger gen gaming audience/kids are going to jump on this so-called “Battle Royale” Mode bandwagon.
Like I once said before, gaming industry is slowly getting doomed.
But don’t get me wrong, because I know a lot of peeps want to play these type of online games (and I don’t blame them nor offending them), but this is slowly becoming a trend in the gaming industry, as of late.
It’s hard to find good SP games these days (very few titles are there like TITANFALL 2), that’s why I stopped playing any of the latest AAA/AA tittles lately.
I have enough backlog of my old school FPS library and even CDs/DVDs from early 2000s, so I’m not missing anything.
Project SNOWBLIND, AREA 51, QUAKE 4, and RED FACTION anyone ?
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Last weekend me and the mates did a session of Unreal Tornment 4.
That’s the only kind of multiplayer shlt I’ll get into, and ONLY with my dudes!
Unfortunately we who grew up playing games, have less and less good stuff to waste or times with. But, as you’ve just mentioned, we still have the good ol’ games to back us up!
LOL
Started playing F.E.A.R 1 first time yesterday , still looks good 2005 game with impeccable atmosphere and AI .Felt guilty of not giving it a try earlier LOL !
F.E.A.R 1 is just awesome ! One of the best FPS released on the PC.
One of the reasons why I bought a bike. Spending less and less time gaming due to these predictable and boring decisions our industry makes, it’s sad.
Potential? Like i said on someone’s review of the new postal game, the reason everything look so empty and fake and postal 2 looked like an actual place was because that engine let you do brushes and build your own level, meanwhile now every modern engines needs you to use 3d models for everything. Unreal engine 5 is just a graphics engine that you can put your 3d models to build the game.
Also all the games you mentioned were made with brushes. AAA is mess right now, i just play indie games, so many boomer shooters i need a ms excel spreadsheet to track them? Have you played ashes 2063? You should. Also turbo overkill is awesome. You should play their previous game total chaos on moddb.
Yes I have played ASHES 2063 ! It’s an awesome mod. It was fun killing those bandit raiders, mutant cannibal warlords and acid spewing carnivorous plants, lol.
Btw, Turbo Overkill looks quite interesting and addictive. Added to my list.
Gonna try it out soon. Too bad the game is still on early access on Steam. There is a free DEMO that I can try now.
early access episode 1 is 5 hours long.
Also dread templar looks like its worth it. I got many many more i can list them if you want.
Nice to see you being back buddy! Hell Kaos! ?
Thanks Oscar ! HAIL METAL !
It’s design by committee. “Check the Google analytics. What is the most popular genre? Battle Royale? Ok make that. What’s the most popular theme? Cyberpunk? Ok make that. What’s the most hyped engine? UE5. Done.”
Now we get a cyberpunk battle royale built on UE5.
Five years ago it would have been a pirate ninja moba on unity.
/yawn Just what the world needed. More “battle royale” garbage.
Well done, “gunzilla games”.
I wish there was a Steam page for this game… so that I could add it to my ignore list. MP only games are absolute deal breakers for me.
I wish they stopped making royale’s
Wtf john this is literally a cutscene from cod advanced warfare.
What you mean its a different game?
If it’s more EFT than traditional BR then I’m slightly interested. If it is just another standard BR then it can just get in the bin. I wonder because it has big names involved if it will have some sort of NFT f*kery integrated into it.
People just can’t make good games any more. There always has to be some sort of angle to it, whether it’s scummy monetization, NFTs or social propaganda. This game might just tank because it could be technically horrendous, doomed to be in early access for years.
ret@rded games like Rust and PUBG making billions doomed the industry. So many copycats and there’s no passion involved, they all want the big Rust bucks. I repeat, if you see a battle royale game you can be sure that the f*ggots behind it don’t have passion for their dreamgame, they just want Lambos and yachts.
Metal limbs are silly. At least Deus Ex makes artificial limbs look like carbon fiber and reserves the metal look for tank characters like Barrett, Gunter or Marchenko – characters who are 99% augmented. Meanwhile this character looks like they strapped metal arms and legs to a regular guy. His neck seems natural so we can assume he has a human spine. A human spine is not going to carry those limbs for very long. He would herniate his discs going for a mild jog. The spine is the most fragile component, even worse than the knees and shoulders. If you want metal arms and legs you basically need a full robot like those Deus Ex characters I mentioned, or like the big bad in Cyberpunk 2077. You can’t go half-way. Partial limb replacements only work in the Deus Ex style, with hollow lightweight components. If we pretend there’s a feasible energy source to power them.
If you want to make a human super soldier you need protection (armor) and a force multiplying exoskeleton. Crysis has the most compelling rendition of something like that. A single “suit” that accomplishes both tasks, it enhances and protects and it’s even configurable to prioritize different enhancements temporarily. Meanwhile the last thing you want is for your expensive future soldier to wear no freaking helmet, thus making him less protected than even a standard soldier today.
I resent COD:AW for popularizing essentially unarmored soldiers. The realism of the exoskeletons doesn’t make up for that stupidity. If anything it just makes the cost calculation even worse. Sending people into combat with no protective gear made sense for nation states during WW2 because they saw their citizens as expendable cannon fodder. They drafted them (no training) and sent them off to die with nothing more valuable on them than their gun. But in recent COD games armies are sending highly trained cyborgs into battle – with no armor. What are the economics behind this? Did they develop Matrix-like technology to train men into soldiers really fast and cheaply? And were the exoskeletons on sale?
This game rips off COD’s “no protection” look and then goes the extra mile by replacing the only plausible thing about it, the exoskeleton, with LMAO ROBOT LEGS. It’s soulless, much like making a new Battle Royale game in 2022. No good signs, no gameplay, I’m already predicting this game will be bad.
“Chief Visionary Officer” – is that a real job now? So they have a known director and a writer of popular cyberpunk books coupled with the battle royale formula. What a waste.