The world of Rebel Moon is about to get a little larger. Not with one other film just yet, sadly, however with a new mobile game from Netflix Video games. The brand new game is known as Rebel Moon: Blood Line, and whereas Netflix announced that the game was in development over a year ago, it wasn’t till Thursday’s Geeked Week presentation that we received our first have a look at the squad-based motion game.
Netflix’s Geeked Week presentation confirmed off a little little bit of gameplay from Blood Line, together with a few phrases from the builders at Tremendous Evil Megacorp. The trailer additionally confirmed off some footage, together with the top-down taking pictures that makes up a lot of the core gameplay loop.
Forward of the Netflix occasion, Polygon had the chance to play a few of Rebel Moon: Blood Line, and chat with the builders about what it was prefer to tackle a video game venture on this authentic sci-fi world.
The game is ready throughout the universe of Rebel Moon, however is basically separate from the plot of Zack Snyder’s films. The thought for the game began shortly after growth of the movie, the group says, with Snyder and crew handing over scripts and different world-building supplies to Tremendous Evil Megacorp and letting the group run wild with their concepts for tips on how to develop the world. The observe they selected concerned diving into a new phase of the universe and increasing on among the factions of the Imperium and the riot that we see briefly within the films, however don’t get a lot backstory on. The game takes place on a planet referred to as Krypt, the place you assist the insurgent faction battle again towards the overwhelming may of the Imperium.
Whereas its standing as a mobile tie-in game to a blockbuster film franchise should still carry some baggage, Rebel Moon: Blood Line’s gameplay is surprisingly deep and fun. Just like different brief mission-style video games like Helldivers (which the group famous as a particular inspiration), the game begins gamers (as much as 4 in a squad) within the rebels’ house base, the place you may run round and edit your loadout, customise your look, glean a few particulars concerning the story and the bigger Rebel Moon universe, or choose missions.
The missions we performed have been fast, small-scale skirmishes that lasted about 5-Quarter-hour every. They have been fast-paced and tasked us with finishing a number of distinctive aims whereas wave after wave of enemies rushed us from all sides. Whereas the simplest degree we performed didn’t really feel too robust, ramping up the issue elevated the enemy numbers till it turned a little bit of a problem (and a complete lot extra entertaining). All of this was made considerably higher by the game’s distinctive courses.
The game could be performed single participant, however taking part in with a full squad is the place it actually shines, particularly if every of you takes on a completely different class. The game contains 4 distinctive courses, but it surely’s simpler to consider them within the conventional roles they could occupy in different video games: Bannerguard is the tank, Evoker is the healer, Kindred is the bow-wielding ranged DPS, and Forsaken is the stealthy fast melee DPS choice. Every class has a number of distinctive talents that pair properly with one another, together with crowd management for the Kindred, a taunt for the Bannerguard, and a few high-damage and fast repositioning talents for the Forsaken. It’s straightforward to see how the upper problem ranges might make these talents actually shine — for instance, making it much more necessary for the Bannerguard to take aggro from the numerous enemies on display screen and get heals from the Evoker — to let the remainder of the squad do injury with out worrying about taking injury.
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Every of those courses additionally has a large litany of upgrades out there to earn, both by in-game forex you acquire from missions or by leveling up every particular person class. These upgrades appeared fascinating, and look like Tremendous Evil Megacorp’s major incentive for folks to stay with the game, however in our brief demo we didn’t have a probability to essentially dive into the small print, or learn the way a lot they actually change the core gameplay loop.
One other factor we didn’t get a nice sense of within the demo was simply how a lot this game digs into the bigger world of Rebel Moon. Whereas the unique launch variations of the film don’t do a nice job of displaying it, the director’s cuts revealed that Rebel Moon’s world (finest described as a mashup of Warhammer 40K and Star Wars) is fascinating and full of bizarre, cool-as-hell lore. An motion RPG like Rebel Moon: Blood Line looks as if the proper place to indicate off all of the sick particulars that make this world tick, however they have been robust to note within the snippet of gameplay we skilled.
Tremendous Evil Megacorp was clear the game was solely in alpha in the intervening time and that the courses and gameplay have been what was most locked down. That half felt nice. In fact, solely time will inform how sticky the game will show with gamers, or if its mobile platform will maintain it again as the degrees get more durable, however for now it appears to be off to a fairly promising begin — and it’d at the very least be a nice holdover till the conclusion of the film trilogy arrives.
Rebel Moon: Blood Line doesn’t have a launch date simply but, however it is going to have a beta within the close to future. When it’s launched, the game will likely be out there to obtain for anybody with a Netflix subscription and a supported machine to play it on.
