FBC: Firebreak is coming on June 17.
FBC: Firebreak is coming on June 17.
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Remedy’s FBC: Firebreak will keep you busy exterminating the Hiss | hands-on preview

I played hands-on with multiple missions in a preview Remedy Entertainment‘s FBC: Firebreak game. You’ll spend so much time exterminating monsters known as The Hiss that you’ll feel like a rodent exterminator.

It’s a quirky game with beautiful triple-A graphics and some quirky humorous elements, like the presence of tons of paper sticky notes through some of the levels. It’s a co-op first-person shooter game, with online play for three players. It’s a nice change for Remedy, as I love its narrative-based games — I’ve played every one of them — but this game has a kind of short and intense Left4Dead feel to it.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.