I was sitting at the airport waiting for my boarding group to be called when it dawned on me what a distinctly odd moment in time I was living through. I was flying to a preview event for an extraction shooter called Exoborne, all the while checking my phone to see if there were any updates on whether my friends and family in Los Angeles were okay, if they had to evacuate, if they still had homes. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic United States, one where the disaster that ruined our world wasn't nuclear war, or zombies, or a pandemic. It was climate change.
Mother Nature had even more of a helping hand in this particular version of our doomed future than she's getting in real life—which, unfortunately for us, is really saying something. A corporation called Project Rebirth was supposed to save the world from climate disaster with geoengineering technology, but instead weaponized it and turned it against the people. We play as Reborn, who are mostly regular folks who have taken up arms to battle against the corporation while trying to scavenge a life from the wreckage.
