The studio was founded in 2019 with the aim to create AAA games on the Unreal Engine for the whole world to enjoy free-to-play. Since then it received an Epic Mega Grant from Epic Games, and has turned that investment into a promising trailer released today. At first blush, the game looks like the lovechild of Halo and Transformers, with Warhammer serving as a godparent.
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Xbox is already home to the Halo franchise, and Exomecha has a very similar feel, especially on the weaponry front. The trailer features similar armaments to what Master Chief might have available: smooth-bodied machine guns with scopes, helicopters that can be hijacked by dispatching the pilot, tanks, and other vehicles. Even the pacing seems similar, with the initial trailer showing robotic troops storming a beachfront.
There are definitely elements to this trailer that are exciting on a gameplay aspect — at one point in the trailer a soldier flies by on a hoverboard, only to be blasted out of the sky. The stars of the show, the giant Transformers-like robots, brandish swords and shields, having their own titanic battle while their smaller and more vulnerable cohorts face off at their feet. As if that weren’t enough, a mighty robot-dragon barges in to cause even more chaos on the battlefield.
Speculations run wild about what Exomecha gameplay will actually entail. This FPS may be very Halo-like, but there are elements at play that suggest something more. The giant sword-wielders could be characters in themselves, but it would not be unreasonable to assume from their robotic appearance that they could also count as vehicles and can, therefore, be captured, just like the helicopters and tanks also appearing in this game.
Player responses to the news have been all over the place so far, from delighted anticipation to apathy. Some compared the trailer to Titanfall, lamenting that there will be no Titanfall 3. TwistedRed is clearly trying to make its title a unique gameplay experience, and hopefully, Exomecha will appeal to the broad player base.
Exomecha will be coming to PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X in 2020.
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