Gearbox Making a MOBA

The same geniuses behind Borderlands are making a MOBA, which is short for multiplayer online battle arena. The name for the multiplayer game is Battleborn. It’s going to be in first-person with all of the playable characters being ranged fighters. It’s going to be different from other MOBAs in many ways. The art direction is very different from their previous games, but the cinematic trailer still promises a one of many great looking landscapes. It will be out for PC, Xbox One and PS4 with no released date or rating being announced yet.

A quote from Gearbox in the July issue of Game Informer...

2K and Gearbox Software — the genre-fusing masters behind the award-winning and best-selling Borderlands franchise — today announced that their next big original IP, Battleborn is in development for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Affectionately called a hero-shooter by the dev team, Battleborn combines frenetic first-person shooting with co-operative combat, and an expansive collection of diverse heroes to create an experience unlike anything you’ve played before. Set in a distant future, the only hope for the last star in a dying universe is a new breed of warriors who must put aside their differences to drive back an unstoppable menace. Players choose from a myriad of powerful heroes and fight together alongside their friends in a narrative-driven co-operative campaign, or battle against them in fast-paced competitive multiplayer matches.This game will certainly be interesting. One question to be asked; do we need another MOBA? He have so many PC-based games in this genre and they are already time consuming and have been up with times with steady updates since they have been released. Of course, this one is different from the others. It will be on home consoles and is being developed by the oh so talented Gearbox studios. Still, how will it compete with League of Legends, Infinite Crisis and Smite? Not to mention the 19 other action real-time strategy games. What do you Game Geniuses think?