Evolve adds ‘a hell of a lot more’ to Left 4 Dead’s style of storytelling

When a giant, fire-breathing alien is chasing you, the only story you care about is whether you live or die in the next 30 seconds. But it’s nice to know that Evolve has a larger narrative that you can dive into when you’re not busy fighting other players online.

Up to this point, everything we’ve seen about Evolve (out on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC this fall) has to do with multiplayer matches in Hunt mode: up to four players control the hunters, and a fifth takes over the alien. The hunters must kill the creature before it grows too powerful (by eating other forms of wildlife) and completes its objectives, like destroying a shield generator. Though the few rounds I played were thrilling, it was hard to get a sense of the story while I was figuring out the controls and communicating with my team via headphones.