4:LOOP, the next co-op shooter from the creator behind Left 4 Dead, received a gameplay deep dive at today’s State of Play, and it’s looking really good in the run up to its closed beta. Mike Booth, the game’s director and chief creative officer at Bad Robot Games, was emphatic about creating a title that stood out from the crowd, an ambitious goal for the rather crowded co-op shooter space.
“A core goal when I’m designing games is to make new kinds of experiences that always offer interesting surprises and unpredictable moments for players, and for our own dev team! To achieve this means building emergent gameplay,” he said on the PlayStation Blog.
However, it looks like 4:LOOP might live up to its lofty goals, with a very cool way to dive into missions in a world where an alien invasion has left the majority of Earth’s population turned into glass statues. You choose missions with your fellow players via a vote, and are thrust straight into the action, navigating maps designed to give you options and the creative freedom to make the most out of them as you go about your objectives.
Don’t worry if you die, though, as there’s a really cool 3D printer that’s going to bring you right back to life at your home base, while at least one of your teammates must make it to the Escape Zone for your run to succeed. All in all, it looks like 4:LOOP could just gather enough momentum to have a player base that swears by it when it drops later this year.