Outpost is the name, and blowing your eyebrows off with high-octane action seems to be the game. Unveiled during the Steam Enter the Dragon showcase, which highlights upcoming games from China, the trailer starts with a bang and never stops. In the end, you are not sure if this will be the best game ever, or just one of the best.
The trailer, which is embedded above and can also be viewed on the game’s Steam page, begins with a Red Alert-style notification voice that says “Warning: Enemy Signal Detected” – classic. We immediately see someone jump down from a roof and fire a rocket launcher before a quick cut to another shoots at what looks like incoming comets.
We’re not even ten seconds inside yet. Now a character opens a missile box, lifts a giant missile out and throws it into the air. We cut to another player’s perspective while the missile flies up, they catch it and slam it into a giant gun. We then see a large gun, probably this one, firing into the distance.
Then there are some who shoot zombie-type enemies in a snowfield – so far so normal – when a screen-filling obelisk thing crashes out of the sky and into the enemy’s ranks.
Then we see a base that, and this is probably my favorite part of it all, zooms out to an RTS show, then shows some RTS matches and cuts straight to an FPS show of a player shooting a giant rock monster , fast-cut once again to a landing craft being attacked by zombies – seen from the outside and then one from the inside, honey!
A guy shows up to give a heroic speech in which he says the word “outpost” twice before we hear “the outpost is under attack!” We see a giant outpost that is actually under attack from hundreds of glowing bad things.
Then there are like three battleship platforms stacked on top of each other that shoot before a mechanic lands and the character reloads their gun with a giant golden ball.
In fact, I lied earlier, this is my favorite bit. The screen briefly fades to black before a guy sighs and says, “We have imagined the collapse of human society in many ways, but it came quietly from the creation of which we are most proud,” and then there is a scene from The Matrix revolutions, basically. So some shoot into that scene, and boom: It was 80 seconds of madness.
Who knows if Outpost is the next big thing, complete schlock or an over-ambitious project we will never hear from again. It’s published by Lightning Games and is, as the trailer suggests, a multiplayer co-op shooter where you gather resources and build and improve outposts and various characters. An exciting element of the short description is that matches are “filled with random elements” – although this is one of those things that could be a game-changer, or have little effect in practice.
Outpost does not yet have a release date, but if it comes with another trailer like this, we will definitely report it.