How did the idea for Firefall come about?
It sounds a bit cliché, but Red 5 Studios is made up of a bunch of gamers. We love games, including shooters and MMOs. We saw an opportunity to create a game that didn’t exist. It’s a game we all have wanted to play. By taking the best parts of shooters; intense combat, player skill, engaging movement, and adding to it elements from other genres such as large-scale, persistent worlds, resource management and deep character progression, we really think we’ve created something unique that will bring gamers together. What can you tell us about the fictional back story for the game? We want to make sure Firefall has a deep, rich story and to give players the opportunity to uncover details with twists and turns as they play the game. Firefall takes place on Earth in the year 2233. Mankind has always been on the lookout for clean energy and in the early 23rd century, we found it in the form of a resource called Crystite. Soon after the discovery of Crystite, nearly everything on the planet s
