After making some incredible arcade shooters, Housemarque is moving forwards with a multiplayer focused experience called Stormdivers. The trailer above gives us our best look at the game yet, and it appears to be a battle royale game melded with the studio's penchant for sci-fi and futuristic settings.
As usual, you'll start a match by falling to the ground, but here it's via a drop pod. Your objective is to be the last one standing, but in Stormdivers, everyone's running around in souped up outfits that seem to grant special abilities. We're not sure if you'll need to scavenge for new weapons and equipment, but it seems that you'll have powers at your disposal, such as teleports, shields, invisibility, and more. Finally, the map closes in to a smaller and smaller point on the map to keep things interesting, and in this game, it's a literal storm you'll need to avoid.
It doesn't look too bad at all, and we know that there's real talent at Housemarque. We'll have to wait and see if the developer can pull it off.
Are you interested in Stormdivers? What do you think of this new trailer? Air drop into the comments below.
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Hmmmmm.
Trash.
"... Battle Royale" - and everyone lost interest.
Not my bag, old bean.
Meh. I'm out.
It might find an audience, but I'm not sure how many will be from their old audience.
Good luck to them but really not my cup of tea. Would love to have seen another Resogun or Nex machina
@KALofKRYPTON what about the 150 million active Fortnite players? I wonder what the active Nex Machina player base is in comparison.
I understand why they did it, but it's kind of gross seeing a company known for excellent arcade-style games develop some super generic-looking battle royale thing just to be able to stay afloat.
@kyleforrester87 that’s because much like other pop culture phenomenons like the Wii it has people who wouldn’t normally play games playing it. You have school kids who see it as the cool thing to do especially with famous rappers,movie and sports stars playing it and much like the Wii it will die down in the future and won’t have nowhere near that kind of playerbase
Not a fan of Battle Royale, but still looks pretty cool.
Good luck. When BR is not tied to an existing franchise like COD or BFV it will be a hard sell if this is not free to play. It looked more fun to me than Fortnite and H1Z1 though.
Not for me, but I really hope this becomes a massive hit for them.
That might give them the freedom to go back to their roots... .
@dark_knightmare2 I wasn't really asking for the whys and the how's, at the end of the day they need to put food on the table though right? And as fun as Housemarques games have been previously there is apparently no real market for them. I've actually bought every one of their games at launch (other than Resogun that was a giveaway, and the most recent one that came out after Nex which kind of escapes me right now?) but to be completely honest I've never been a massive fan. Dead Nation is the best game they've done from my perspective.
Anywhooo hopefully this is a success for them and they can carry on making whatever kind of games they like. That said, I don't really think it's going to pay off for them.
@kyleforrester87 The majority of those Fortnite players probably won't be jumping ship to a new IP any time soon.
Fans of the big AAA franchises have BR game types coming in the next iterations - so doubtful they can pick up players from CoD or BF.
Despite my own lack of interest in the 'genre' - if it can even be called that - the allure of the next big thing must be palpable, and I understand their desire to capitalise on that. But the chances are that this will tank.
@KALofKRYPTON of course they won't be jumping over, it's just funny how people on here (and a lot of other forums) think that no one is interested in BR when clearly there is a massive market. Whether another game can be successful is up for debate I guess but there is obviously massive interest in the genre.
@KALofKRYPTON It's not just Battle Royale. A lot of people here are not interested in multiplayer it seems...
@kyleforrester87 People aren't interested in Battle Royale, they're interested in PUBG and Fortnite. All the other million clones will flop anyway
@kyleforrester87 I think there's a 'massive market' for the games that are already entrenched, with very little - if any - room for contenders. I just think that the people playing Fortnite, like Fortnite.
@WanderingBullet I certainly prefer single player, or couch multiplayer - but do like online multiplayer. Just takes something to really peak my interest. Warhawk was so very great.
I wasn't a fan of BR in Resistance 2, loved the game types and set up in M.A.G.
@kyleforrester87 oh I agree I don’t see this paying off for them either and like you I understand why they went this route but unfortunately it just isn’t a route I’m interested in. Dead nation is a good pick for their best game I would go with alienation but dead nation is def my second favorite game by them
Count me in, I think it looks like a lot of fun. I know it's cool to hate on the latest trend.. but I've never been cool! I'll let you all know how it plays.
No, I don't even like battle royale.
Maybe if you guys had actually bought Nex Machina and Matterfall, you wouldn't be here complaining about a new Battle Royale game. I, for one, am very excited, and that's coming from someone who preordered Alienation, Nex Machina, and Matterfall, and got the Platinum in Resogun.
Its a pity no more Housemarque for me. 😢
@KALofKRYPTON I tend to agree but despite the (low) chance that another BR has to break into the market, they probably have more hope with Stormdivers than they do another single player arcade throwback, like it or loathe it.
Man, talk about a 180
the first half of the trailer is all fluff, gameplay at the end looks okay I guess have to see more consistency
also i think RD2 BR may take off, apparently the game is launching with it
Looks me and unless it's f2p it will probably die! Also invisibility in a battle royale? LMAO
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