Video Games
Bring Down Mutant Dinosaurs in Upcoming Co-Op Shooter ‘Second Extinction’
We know that everyone and their grandma wants Left 4 Dead to come back. But while we are getting a spiritual successor in Back 4 Blood, we still have to look for alternatives at present time.
One such alternative has arrived in the form of developers Systemic Reaction’s Second Extinction, which was revealed yesterday as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Event. The three-player, online cooperative shooter will be coming to the Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC. A release date was not announced, but a PC closed beta is scheduled for this summer.
In Second Extinction, your goal is simple: wipe out the mutated dinosaurs that have taken over the planet. Teamwork is vital as you adopt the role of one of the survivors, using a unique combination of weapons, abilities and skills to take on the dinos.
“Second Extinction is a real passion project for our tight-knit team, and we’re just getting started,” says Brynley Gibson, Lead Producer at Systemic Reaction. “It’s incredible how far we’ve come in this short time and I’m super excited to reveal more details, including our live roadmap, in the coming months.”
While not quite Snakes on a Plane or Red Eye, co-developers Liquid Static Studio and Snapping Turtle have something darker in mind with their upcoming job-sim horror game, Night Plane. Coming to Steam later this year, the game has you doing the expected work as a flight attendant, but with the added bonus of trying to find demons hiding amongst the passengers.
It’s 1999, and it’s your first day on the job. You must do the usual things as a flight attendant: welcoming passengers aboard, check tickets, and attend to their needs. However, shape-shifting entities may attempt to come aboard disguised as humans. So, your additional job in Night Plane is to question passengers, and find a way to remove any unauthorized non-human visitors from the plane.
That also leads to assisting passengers in unorthodox ways inside the plane, outside the plane, and in places not listed in your training manual. To make things even more complicated, you’ll need to make tough decisions with irreversible consequences. Naturally, the company will not be held accountable for any mistakes you make. You live with them.
Oh, and seeing as this is a plane, you may encounter some turbulence while in flight, along with power failures, lightning strikes and more. All of which, including your decisions, will lead to one of the multiple endings in Night Plane.
If you wish to get in on the fun prior to the game’s release, you can sign up for the playtest via the Steam page.