Borderlands developer Gearbox Software is working on a new IP titled “Battleborn”, Game Informer reports. The title is described as “a fusion of first-person shooting and loot-grabbing RPG elements in a living comic book art style.”
2K Games will publish Battleborn for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC.
First details include:
- Takes the minion smashing and fast leveling often associated with MOBAs and injects it into an intergalactic first-person battle arena
- Dramatic story
- Story assembles a universe’s worth of disparate heroes
- These include an immortal samurai to a minigun-wielding giant
- All are battling over the last star in the cosmos
- First announced competitive match type: Incursion
- Incursion is a 5 vs. 5 mode that combines fast-paced first-person gameplay with the strategic team-based elements of games like League of Legends and Dota 2
- Rival battleborn hunt one another in lush jungles and arid deserts while robotic NPC minions wage an ongoing tug-of-war
- Start on a level playing field at the beginning of each match
- Progress along a streamlined skill path up to level 20 filled with customizable abilities that unlock a variety of different play styles
- Many of these gameplay elements will also bleed into Battleborn’s five-player cooperative campaign
- Each hero controls like they’re from entirely different first-person games
- The consummate space marine feels like he’s been ripped from any modern shooter
- A spry elven huntress leaps far above other players’ heads and rains down volleys of deadly arrows
- Huge cast of characters
- Rivaling factions
- Game will have humor