With FBC: Firebreak due to launch later this year, GamesRadar+ recently sat down with Mike Kayatta (Game Director) and Thomas Puha (Communications Director) to talk about Remedy's upcoming adventure and what the new genre means for the studio. The article is part of the publication's January feature, Big in 2025, which spotlights fifty upcoming adventures.
If you missed last year's Xbox Partner Preview, let's catch you up! FBC: Firebreak is a three-person FPS co-operative game set in the Federal Bureau of Control. It's been years since the appointment of the new Director, Jesse Faden, and this time players are tasked with helping in the FBC's continued fight against The Hiss, which stubbornly continues to infest The Oldest House.
The article doesn't reveal a ton of new information, with Remedy clearly holding their cards to their chest for now, but the interviews give a wonderful description of the team's approach to the game.
Before you start, players will be asked to select a weapon and customise your “Firebreak Crisis Kit”, creating a toolset perfect to your play style including grenades and support items. As it's set in the Control-world, Altered Items are also back, with the crews given permission to use these “para-natural augments” to help boost their success rates.
The GamesRadar+ article also touches on the decontamination showers, originally shown in the reveal trailer. Though it might not quite as straight forward as a nice refreshing dip with your buddies; water management is apparently essential. Mike notes, these decontamination showers were one of the first design elements that stuck with the team and made it through to the final product.
As already revealed, the game will be a “mid-priced” shooter, with the title set to launch across both Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus simultaneously. Throw in that the game will be Remedy's first self-published title, and there's a lot to get right. There will also be PC releases on the Epic Games Store and Steam, and while it's too early to confirm PC specifications, Puha has touched on the topic. He states that “we are pretty conscious of keeping the minimum required PC spec reasonable”, and that while the team aim for great graphics, the requirements won't be as demanding as Control and Alan Wake 2.
You can read the GamesRadar+ interview in full, HERE!
FBC: Firebreak is scheduled to release in 2025 for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5. FBC: Firebreak will launch day one on PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate. It also launches day one onto the PlayStation Plus Game Catalogue, available for all Extra and Premium members.
