Extinction is a game brave enough to mash up ‘Attack on Titan’ and ‘Shrek’

Killer Instinct developer Iron Galaxy Studios is like an onion. It has layers. And one of those layers is working on a new game.

Extinction is the next big project from Iron Galaxy and publisher Maximum Games. It is an action-adventure that puts players in the role of one of the last powerful defenders who must protect a population of everyday humans from violent, attacking giants. That is a similar setup to the Japanese animated show Attack on Titan, or at least that’s what nerds are always telling me — I’ve never seen it. But in Extinction, instead of killing large nude giants, you take on giant green ogres like the one from Shrek — which is a cool movie I’ve seen like 50 times. Extinction is due out in 2018 for PC as well as PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.