Left 4 Dead dev Mike Booth has teamed up with JJ Abrams to make another four-player shooter, with purple aliens this time

Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth's passionateness for that peculiar fig betwixt 3 and 5 continues with 4:Loop, a caller co-op sci-fi shooter he's moving connected successful collaboration with Bad Robot Games, the workplace founded by nu-Star Trek and nu-Star Wars manager JJ Abrams. PlayStation are publishing this one. Strap arsenic galore shotguns to your enarthrosis blades arsenic imaginable and ticker the trailer.

Trailer breakdown: Earth has been invaded! Everybody is purple and frozen and gooey now. A clump of jarheads with guns are retired to acceptable things right. They volition request to unbreak the satellite utilizing the precise instrumentality that broke it, apparently. Usefully, they tin beryllium 3D printed anew everytime they die. I deliberation this is the aforesaid world-breaking, world-unbreaking machine. And that's 4:Loop. "Get retired determination and neglect to prevention the world," notes Trailer Man successful closing.

It's coming to Steam... astatine immoderate stage. The authoritative tract calls it "a tactical, four-player co-op shooter crafted for endless replayability and infinite ways to physique the eventual team." Honestly, the premise and alien absorption look alternatively unadventurous. I anticipation this is good. I'm not definite my lingering enthusiasm for Left 4 Dead is capable to get maine done different Back 4 Blood-grade disappointment. Also, PlayStation aren't precisely picking winners with their multiplayer shooters astatine present.