{"id":80713,"date":"2015-08-31T03:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80713"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T07:08:40","slug":"a-first-look-at-cliff-bleszinskis-lawbreakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/80713-a-first-look-at-cliff-bleszinskis-lawbreakers","title":{"rendered":"A first look at Cliff Bleszinski&#8217;s LawBreakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally entitled &#8216;Project Bluestreak&#8217;, Clif Bleszinski&#8217;s (of <em>Gears of War <\/em>fame) next foray into videogame development has culminated in <em>LawBreaker<\/em>, and it looks rather good.<\/p>\n<p>If we had to describe <em>LawBreakers<\/em> as succinctly as possible, having only seen this initial gameplay reveal (which you&#8217;ll find below), we would call it the illegitimate love child of <em>Unreal Tournament <\/em>and Blizzard&#8217;s upcoming <em>Overwatch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>By that we mean, <em>LawBreakers<\/em> looks to amalgamate the functionality of varying, and really quite unique, class types of a game like <em>Overwatch<\/em> or <em>Team Fortress 2<\/em> and give it high-octane <em>Unreal Tournament<\/em>-esque shooting mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we won&#8217;t know until we get a feel for it, but the way weapons and characters seem to handle all seems very reminiscent of <em>Unreal Tournament 3<\/em>, which really isn&#8217;t much of a surprise given the studio Bleszinksi originally hails from.<\/p>\n<p>That is to say, characters and their movements seem a lot meatier than the likes of <em>Overwatch<\/em> or <em>Team Fortress<\/em>; character abilities are far more grounded in science fiction than fantasy; and some of the weapons look straight out of an <em>Unreal Tournament<\/em> setting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RJ4S5G4nsUI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See what we mean.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, barring the slightly more cartoonish aesthetic, it looks quite a bit like <em>Unreal Tournament<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not stupid, we know that a lot of that may be down to the engine powering <em>LawBreakers<\/em>, the Unreal Engine 4.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, we&#8217;re actually pretty excited about <em>LawBreakers<\/em>. We can&#8217;t wait to see how it unfolds.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/80673-metal-gear-solid-wedding-takes-the-cake.html\">Metal Gear Solid wedding takes the cake<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/80587-transformers-devastation-perhaps-the-coolest-robot-game-ever.html\">Transformers: Devastation, perhaps the coolest robot game ever<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/80585-former-gears-of-war-creator-reveals-lawbreakers.html\">Former Gears of War creator reveals LawBreakers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/80549-the-following-plays-like-dying-light-only-its-bigger-and-better.html\">The Following plays like Dying Light, only it\u2019s bigger and better<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Unreal Tournament and Overwatch had a baby, you&#8217;d get LawBreakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15569,1448,1994,1003,15565,1969,6979,15397,15617,4379,183],"class_list":["post-80713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-boss-key-productions","tag-cliff-bleszinski","tag-free-to-play","tag-gameplay","tag-lawbreakers","tag-news-2","tag-nexon","tag-pc","tag-project-bluestreak","tag-unreal-engine-4","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}