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Crytek’s free-to-play shooter Warface has entered open beta on Xbox 360 for Xbox Live Gold members.
The game is part of Crytek’s shift into entirely free-to-play development, an intention stated in February 2013 by the developer’s chief executive Cevat Yerli.
The beta features three versus modes, four playable classes, plus a handful of PvE co-op missions. The versus modes are your standard Team Deathmatch and plant the bomb fare, while the classes are made up of Rifleman, Medic, Engineer and Sniper.
Head through to xbox.com to queue it up for download.
Although Crytek has promised a “constant flow of new content”, currently it feels like the only real innovation here could be the use of the free-to-play model on a console shooter. An experiment that needs to be done, certainly, but the distinctly within-the-box design decisions make this game feel like more of a proof of concept than the Next Big Thing.
Have we missed something about Warface that makes this a really standout shooter? Let us know in the comments below.
Source: majornelson.com
