Brothers in Arms: Furious Four is now a very different game from the one Gearbox unveiled at E3 2011, so much so that it's no longer an over-the-top offshoot of the Brothers in Arms franchise or even called Furious Four. So what's the story with Furious Four? Gearbox isn't ready to say just yet, but the studio is heavily hinting that a core Brothers in Arms game true to the franchise name is also in the mix.
Raise your hand if you were disappointed when Brothers in Arms appeared to be going the slapstick route in Furious Four. Yeah, me too. I'm a big Brothers in Arms fan, and enjoy the mix of squad strategy and first-person shooting. Turns out Gearbox wasn't that keen on Furious Four as a BiA game either. As studio boss Randy Pitchford told Kotaku at PAX Prime, the decision to make BiA: Furious Four was due, in part, to Ubisoft wanting a new BiA game and Gearbox being out of fresh ideas. Hence the wild new direction for the franchise.
But as Pitchford revealed, the further into development the team got on Furious Four, the more obvious it became it wasn't a BiA game. The studio actually felt "unshackled" by dropping the Brothers in Arm name and started to add new features. As it stands now, the game formerly known as Furious Four is drastically different, Pitchford said, and while he refrained from sharing specifics, he did say it will bring a Borderlands-like genre hybrid experience.
"Our Pokemon has evolved," Pitchford told Kotaku. "It has different powers."
An official Furious Four announcement is coming soon, Gearbox said, and for fans wondering about the core Brothers in Arms franchise, an announcement about that should also be right around the corner. Pitchford teased that Gearbox plans to talk about its plans for BiA during the next community event, set for September 15.
Source: Gamespy