2K Games and Gearbox announce Battleborn for PS4, Xbox One & PC

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, Xbox One, 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

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