Wargaming has built a gaming empire on the multiplayer experience. World Of Tanks put the company on the map back in 2010, and since then, the MMO action game has expanded to the air and sea with World Of Warplanes and World Of Warships. A few new genres of multiplayer games have emerged more recently, and with Steel Hunters, which was revealed during The Game Awards, Wargaming hopes to challenge them all… at the same time.
Steel Hunters is a free-to-play PvPvE third-person shooter that combines the unique characters of hero shooters, eliminations of battle royales, and key-item retrieval of extraction shooters into one experience. Each player will choose a character–those characters being massive mechs themed after real-world animals–and pair up to try to win the day, either through surviving or securing the objective.
GameSpot recently attended a hands-off briefing with Wargaming to learn more about Steel Hunters, and while on paper it sounds like it might be trying to do too much, we left the presentation thinking that maybe Wargaming has the formula figured out after all.