Dauntless Is The Latest From Former Bioware Talent

<p><em>Dauntless<&sol;em> is a brand new co-op action RPG coming from Phoenix Labs&comma; coming in 2017&period; The studio showed up at the 2016 Game Awards with their reveal trailer showing off a cinematic look at the setting for their upcoming title&period; Phoenix Labs has some serious pedigree running through it&&num;8217&semi;s veins&comma; with staff who have previously worked at Bioware&comma; Riot Games&comma; Capcom Vancouver and other studios&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;rvrNSM8AQ78<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game has a very slick&comma; animated style that looks similar to something that could come from Blizzard or Pixar&comma; in both their character and creature designs&period; In the game&comma; players act as Slayers in a dystopian world&comma; and venture out to conquer Behemoths that occupy the floating islands of the game&period; The game looks to embrace its gameplay influences of <em>Dark Souls<&sol;em>&comma; and especially <em>Monster Hunter<&sol;em>&period; The 4v1 of players versus monsters initially led to that impression&comma; and a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;playdauntless&period;com&sol;">visit to the website<&sol;a> shows a couple gameplay clips that look like a more westernized take on the <em>Monster Hunter<&sol;em> series&period; Players additionally will be able to obtain materials to craft and upgrade armor and weapons&comma; of which there will be hundreds of items to use in the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game is coming to PC in 2017&comma; and to sign up to be included in the beta visit the <em>Dauntless<&sol;em> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;playdauntless&period;com">website<&sol;a>&comma; though there is no word on whether or not the game will be coming to consoles&period; <em>Dauntless<&sol;em> will be free-to-play&comma; and it should be interesting to see how Phoenix Labs creates an effective setup for bringing in and retaining players and handling their microtransactions&period; Regardless&comma; it will be interesting to see a new take on the <em>Monster Hunter<&sol;em> style of action-RPG and what Phoenix Labs will be bringing to the table&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;playdauntless&period;com">Dauntless Website<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;