Based on a brand new report, a Red Faction sequel was in improvement at one level earlier than the venture was canceled throughout Embracer’s months-lengthy interval of layoffs. Whereas this new sport within the collection was pitched to increased-ups shortly after unique Red Faction studio Volition had shut down, developer Fishlabs felt that it had the mandatory expertise to resurrect the collection.
As reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, Fishlabs put collectively an elevator pitch in trailer kind to promote Embracer-owned writer Plaion on the thought. The visible prototype was in-built Unreal Engine 5 and the plan was to create a sport much like 2009’s Red Faction: Guerrilla, nevertheless it was by no means greenlit and the venture was canceled by November 2023. Not lengthy after, Fishlabs studio management was reportedly instructed to put off virtually each employees member not concerned in an energetic sport venture and mass layoffs started quickly thereafter.
This wasn’t the primary time that Embracer had flirted with the Red Faction franchise, as again in 2019, Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered was launched by the corporate. This model of the sport had higher visuals and much more spectacular physics-based mostly destruction. Its 2011 sequel, Red Faction: Armageddon by no means obtained the identical remedy.
Total, Embracer has launched into a collection of drastic cuts these days, partly on account of a serious deal falling by way of. This was later revealed to have been a pact with Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games that fell by way of, and ultimately 29 unannounced video games had been canceled and 1,400 individuals misplaced their jobs. Embracer Group can also be splitting up into three distinct firms and it has lately mentioned its plans to to make use of synthetic intelligence know-how to “empower” its staff in the course of the sport improvement course of.