It was only a week ago when we learned that JJ Abrams’ studio Bad Robot Games was teaming with Sony and Left 4 Dead designer Mike Booth on a new gaming project. Now, thanks to an appearance by Abrams and Booth on The Game Awards stage, we have learned quite a bit. The game, 4:Loop will be released on PlayStation 5 and Windows PC, and it looks pretty great.
A teaser trailer for the game set up the basic premise. After an alien invasion, most human life was wiped out in mere moments. As one of the few surviving humans, you are waging a futuristic war against those invaders. And the question isn’t if you’ll die, but how many times. In 4:Loop, when you die, you are basically printed out again via a horrifically advanced 3D printer and sent back into battle. Almost as if it’s a time loop where the loop never actually resets time.
“At Bad Robot Games Studio, working with our friends at PlayStation, we’ve been creating a new kind of co-op game that builds upon what I learned making Left 4 Dead,” Booth said during the appearance. The end result is a game that is “an unpredictable, challenging combat sandbox where you succeed through cooperation and improvisation.”
Based on the teacher, it looks like a sci-fi co-op shooter with a sense of humor and plenty of the big action set piece moments you might expect in one of Abrams’ movies.
There is not yet a release date for 4:Loop; however, it can be wishlisted on Steam and the PlayStation Store now.
