[steampowered.com] A cult classic shooter is back after years, and deserves more players

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Gaming news from Steam - steampowered.com:

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Originally released in 2017 as a free-to-play game, the 5v5 hero shooter and MOBA hybrid Gigantic has become a cult classic of sorts, changing up the hero shooter format by combining it with MOBA elements to create a legitimately unique experience, even when compared to later competitors like Overwatch and Valorant. Splitting matches into two phases - an objective based, familiarly King of the Hill-esque phase followed by a more MOBA-inspired space-control Rampage phase - was novel, and nothing has been similar since. When Gigantic was shuttered by Gearbox in 2018, it was a loss for the genre and fans of the game made their feelings clear online that it was sorely missed - that was, until its eventual relaunch.

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