“You’ve really got to work to make a player look up in FPS games.”

You will definitely need to look up in Orbifold, a forthcoming shooter project from Hi-Rez programmer Chris Cullen.

There are also Halo-style launchers that punt you directly through the middle.

A view of wooded ground and trees overhead from Orbifold, a shooter set inside a giant sphere with anti-gravity locking you to the outside

Here’s a slice of very WIP footage featuring some airborne android nuisances.

Catch a video of it below.

Most tempting of all, for my money, are Cullen’s ideas for grenades.

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He envisages slapstick varieties that launch attackers right across the sphere.

you’re free to imagine all kinds of things.

Come, let us bask in the glow of hypotheticals.

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I’d love to see a Halo Warthog driver attempt to make sense of these conditions.

Ah, Lawbreakers, you died too young.

Hopefully Cullen will treat us to a proper announcement in the not-too-distant future.

They sold the rights to that series to a spin-off subsidiary, Prophecy Games, in 2019.