Former Metro devs reveal singleplayer FPS La Quimera, a Latin American cyberpunk shooter with Hollywood credentials

4A Ukraine reborn arsenic Reburn

Ukraine-based autarkic games workplace Reburn person conscionable announced a caller shooter, La Quimera, which I would summarise arsenic Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Cyberpunk 2077 playing kiss-chase successful the near-future jungles and neon sprawls of Latin America. It’s got satellite and communicative penning from Drive manager Nicolas Winding Refn, and is playable successful azygous subordinate with three-person co-op support. Here’s a trailer.

Who are Reburn exactly? Apparently, they’re a rebrand of erstwhile Metro developers 4A Games Ukraine, with 110 radical connected the books including “lead gameplay designers, artists, dependable engineers, programmers, and much from crossed the full Metro series”. The task pb is Sasha Kostiuk, who was gameplay and AI decorator for Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light and Exodus. Reburn’s CEO and laminitis is Dmytro Lymar, antecedently manager and CEO of 4A Games Ukraine.

While each this whitethorn look rather cut-and-dried, there’s really scope for immoderate disorder astir who and what is oregon isn’t 4A Games. I asked the PR for clarification and person present been educated. To briskly recap, 4A Games began beingness successful Ukraine backmost successful 2006, moving connected Metro 2033. In 2014, a information of the squad divided disconnected to recovered a caller workplace successful Malta successful effect to governmental instability successful Ukraine.

The 2 studios retained adjacent connections, however, agreeing to stock the 4A Games trademark and 4A’s motor technology. They collaborated connected Metro Exodus. Then, successful 2020, celebrated mass-redundancy peddlers Embracer bought 4A Games Malta. Around astir the aforesaid time, 4A Games Ukraine got backing for an archetypal project, La Quimera. Now, they’re moving connected it arsenic a wholly abstracted outfit - though they’re keen, naturally, to currency successful connected their relation with the Metro series.

Returning to La Quimera, it casts you arsenic “a down-on-their-luck PMC soldier” with a customisable exosuit. “Fans of the Metro bid volition bask acquainted tense gunplay and intimate storytelling combined with caller crippled experiences done unsocial and highly elaborate environments, characters and weapons,” comments the release.

My thoughts close present are 1) I get the gentlest frisson of Gears Of War’s squad communicative from the quieter parts of the trailer, and 2) those guns are truthful wildly overfaceted I can’t determine which spot is the concern end. It’s similar they were crafted from Rubix cubes. The greebling appears to beryllium eating the wielder's hands. I dread to deliberation what graphics paper adverts look similar successful La Quimera’s cyberpunk future.

Find retired much astir La Quimera connected Steam. Release day arsenic yet determination is none.