The new game from Painkiller and Bulletstorm's creators is a tropical survival shooter that looks a teensy bit like Far Cry, and it's out in early access next month

On a tropical island, a character wearing glasses and a shirt offers the player some tinned food, while another player stands over a dead hyena in the background.

Just the other day I was thinking "I could really go for a survival game in the style of the original Far Cry". You know, one that has the lush tropical islands and open-world mercenary blasting of Crytek's 2004 trailblazer, but where you plan and execute your missions from a base you build yourself.

I'm not sure why I thought this. I've been playing a lot of Abiotic Factor—a survival game set in a massive underground research facility inspired by Half-Life—and that must have got me thinking about what other classic shooters would suit a survivalist twist. In any case, I did think it and now I want it more than anything in the whole world.