Striden looks like a very serious multiplayer shooter until the irradiated bear shows up

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The first hint that Striden is a little different comes part way through the trailer above, when a player absolutely decks the glass face of a vending machine and a soda can pops out. The Half-Life throwback seems out of place next to the very dramatic, blue-filtered WW2-ish shooting—but then you get to the bear.

“Striden is an experience like no other,” says creative director Johan Sundqvist. “It’s a completely new game mode, environment, and cooperative experience.”

“Powerspikes give you the advantage of gaining an upper hand over your opponents,” say the devs. “The more points you collect for your team, the better powerspikes you unlock. Activate a radar that shows opponents on the map, call in an airstrike, or become a radioactive bear that crushes all enemies in its way.”

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Later in the trailer, a moose shows up, too, which I’m happy to see as a Canadian—an underrepresented animal in videogames, I think.

Mainly, though, I like that Striden’s mode design is unconventional. Pairing an old-fashioned score-based victory condition with more fashionable decisions like small teams and looting feels like it has potential, especially for those feeling burnt out on extraction games. It’s also nice to hear from Sundqvist that it will have a “classic server list”—as opposed to just an automated matchmaking system—and well as built-in VOIP.

Striden doesn’t have a release date yet, but it’s got aSteam pagewith more details.

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