Some of my favorite gaming memories of my life stem from the utter chaos of surviving co-op shooters with my friends — games like Left 4 Dead or Gears of War’s Horde Mode. There’s just something about getting your best friends together and screaming into that mic, whether it’s in shock or glee. FBC: Firebreak manages to hit that same feeling at the best of times, even if the journey to get there is a little rocky. It’s an imaginative co-op shooter that can be an absolute blast if you get the right squad together, and luckily, it’s on both PS Plus and Xbox Game Pass to make that easy.
Firebreak is the first multiplayer game from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind games like Alan Wake and Control — and it actually takes place in the Control universe. Your group takes on the role of grunt workers at the Federal Bureau of Control, a “Firebreak” unit that’s sent in to clean up chaotic paranatural events. But, just like in Control, the supernatural entity known as The Hiss wants to stop you from completing your job, and they’ll send everything at you in order to do that.
