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FireFall

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Critic rating

59.0 / 100

4 votes

Release

Jul 9, 2013

Genres

Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)

Overview

Firefall is a massively multiplayer online team-based action shooter role-playing computer game from Red 5 Studios, a studio founded by Mark Kern. It is currently in its open beta stage and it will attempt to mix elements from the MMORPG and MMOFPS genres when it is released. This game should not be confused with the Macintosh game from Pangea Software that was rereleased as shareware on June 13 in 2000.

Storyline

Firefall is an event that takes place almost 200 years in the future. An asteroid was predicted to fly right next to Earth and be a near miss. However, the asteroid instead entered the gravity well of the Moon and shattered. Many of these shards began to slam into the Earth while the bulk of the asteroid entered a low, descending orbit around the Earth, pelting it with even more debris that continued to break off of the asteroid. Eventually the asteroid itself crashed into the Earth, and with this event, plummeted mankind into a new dark age known as the Nine Year Winter. Many of the larger governments fragmented during this time, while other…