ARC Raiders, the forthcoming shooter from Embark Studios, has had a genre change.
Originally a co-operative third-person shooter, the free-to-play game is now being described as a “PvPvE extraction shooter”.
The change has been updated on the game’s Steam page, along with a new blog post from executive producer Aleksander Grøndal giving more details.
Grøndal explained that, over the course of development, “ARC Raiders has taken the shape of what we believe to be a truly promising PvPvE survival extraction shooter – a game that stays true to the ARC Raiders universe and that we’re having a blast testing internally.”
So what exactly does that mean?
Said Grøndal: “ARC Raiders drops players into a lethal but stunningly beautiful future earth, with hair-raising moments of survival and suspense. Human versus machine, human versus human, together or alone, and you versus the sometimes conflicting nature of your own humanity, all in the spectacular backdrop of a landscape littered with the haunting remains of the past.”