Crucible Interest Post

 

 

Crucible, a new free-to-play PC game from Amazon’s original game development arm, is launching later this month, the e-commerce giant announced on Tuesday.

 

It’s Amazon Game Studios’ first big-budget original game, as the studio has focused mostly on tablet games released through its Android app store since the division’s launch back in 2012.

 

The game is a sci-fi third-person shooter that mixes together a bunch of popular game designs including components of team shooters like Blizzard’s Overwatch, battle arena games like Valve’s Dota 2, and battle royale hits like Epic’s Fortnite and Respawn’s Apex Legends.

 

The result sounds like it a combination of the game industry’s most dominant competitive titles of the last five years, which could position Crucible at the forefront of the Twitch and esports scene if it ends up taking off.

 

Crucible will feature a roster of different characters with specific abilities — Amazon isn’t calling them heroes, like most other games do — and three distinct game modes that each touch on competitive gaming’s biggest genres.

 

The first mode, called Heart of the Hives, will be a four-versus-four mode pitting two teams against AI-controlled enemies.

 

The second mode, Alpha Hunters, will put eight teams of two against one another in a battle royale-style contest, with the last team standing declared the winner.

 

And the last mode, Harvester Command, sounds a bit like Dota 2 and League of Legends by putting two teams of eight up against one another in a contest to collect “essence” and level up your characters mid-game. 

 

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