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FireFall

Firefall is a massively multiplayer online team-based action shooter role-playing computer game from Red 5 Studios, a studio founded by Mark Kern. It is currently in its open beta stage and it will attempt to…

59 9 July 2013

FireFall is an adventure developed by Red 5 Studios, released 9 July 2013 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What FireFall is

FireFall is an adventure game developed by Red 5 Studios and released in 2013. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Offset Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Firefall is an event that takes place almost 200 years in the future. An asteroid was predicted to fly right next to Earth and be a near miss. However, the asteroid instead entered the gravity well of the Moon and shattered. Many of these shards began to slam into the Earth while the bulk of the asteroid entered a low, descending orbit around the Earth, pelting it with even more debris that continued to break off of the asteroid. Eventually the asteroid itself crashed into the Earth, and with this event, plummeted mankind into a new dark age known as the Nine Year Winter. Many of the larger governments fragmented during this time, while other nations bound together, forming a strong…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and sandbox. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Multiplayer.

How it was received

FireFall holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points below the year average.

What it launched against

FireFall launched on 9 July 2013, within three weeks of Dota 2, Rogue Legacy, Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World and Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dota 2, Rogue Legacy, Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World, Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection.

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When did FireFall come out?
FireFall was released on 9 July 2013 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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