Smilegate Leisure appears eager on additional increasing the universe of its Crossfire sequence. Whereas the corporate has beforehand tried, first by releasing a single-player marketing campaign into multiplayer shooter CrossfireX and later with the discharge of real-time technique recreation Crossfire: Legion, this time round, the franchise will seemingly discover the horror style with Crossfire: Rainbow. Take a look at a brief trailer that includes some gameplay under.
It’s price noting that Smilegate hasn’t made any official bulletins for a possible Western launch of Crossfire: Rainbow thus far. The title is seemingly being developed for PC, iOS and Android, and based on its trailer’s description on YouTube, is being made with Unreal Engine 5. The trailer itself was uploaded by a fan of the Crossfire sequence reasonably than Smilegate itself. The trailer additionally has textual content on the backside stating that it options the PC model of the sport, and that it’s a mixture of in-game cinematics in addition to gameplay.
The trailer for Crossfire: Rainbow exhibits off the photo-realistic visuals that the slow-paced horror shooter will likely be going for. That includes voice appearing in Chinese language, the trailer doesn’t reveal a lot in the way in which of story. Nevertheless, there do appear to be fairly a couple of supernatural parts at play, with the participant character at one level even recognizing a sinister human-shaped silhouette in a hallway earlier than they’re distracted by a close-by portray falling off the wall.
On the subject of gameplay, Crossfire: Rainbow will seemingly be impressed by different first-person horror shooters like Resident Evil: Village, with the participant accessing fairly a couple of weapons to tackle the seemingly supernatural threats with. Whereas the trailer does characteristic an assault rifle at first, we actually solely get to see what gunplay will seem like for a pistol and a shotgun.
The sport additionally appears to have a crafting system, and the truth that gamers can create makeshift suppressors for his or her pistol would additionally point out that stealth could be one of many choices as we make our means by the sport. At a later level within the trailer, the participant character additionally crafts a molotov cocktail, which is then promptly used on a a lot tougher-seeming enemy that received’t simply go down in a couple of photographs of a pistol or shotgun.
Whereas we don’t get to see an excessive amount of of it, there additionally appears to be a mechanic for the participant character’s sanity at play, with audio and visible hallucinations beginning up when an indicator within the bottom-left nook is sort of fully purple.
The final huge recreation within the Crossfire sequence – Crossfire: Legion – was launched all the way in which again in December 2022. Nevertheless, the title didn’t appear to garner a lot of an viewers, and in the end ended up peaking at simply wanting 400 concurrent gamers at launch. Final month, Smilegate Leisure, together with developer Blackbird Interactive introduced that Crossfire: Legion can be delisted from Steam on August 18. When the announcement was made, the studio additionally stated that it might be offering refunds to gamers “in accordance with the Steam Refund Coverage”.
Within the meantime, additionally take a look at particulars of CrossfireX shedding help, together with its marketing campaign going away again in 2023.
