Eidos gets caught in the Crossfire @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on September 28, 2006

News: Another two-player FPS co-op game from the publishing house of the Hitman.

Two-player co-op First Person Shooters are all the rage these days. First there was EA's Army of Two. Then there was Eidos' Kane & Lynch. And now there's Eidos' Crossfire, which is coming to the Xbox 360 and PC in 2007.

Crossfire places players in the shoes of the blackest of black ops operatives, the National Clandestine Service. Taking two soldiers into battle, they will have no identity and no objects, papers or clothing that could associate them in any way with their employers.

Crossfire is being developed by Pivotal Games and players will be able to switch between the two main characters at any time to "lay down cover fire, explore different paths through levels, create a distraction or pin down the enemy under crossfire". And all this action takes place in the "politically sensitive areas" of South America, Africa and Siberia.

УBeing able to develop a true next generation title is always both exciting and challenging,Ф said Darren Barnett, Development Director, Eidos. УWe are able to utilise the power of Xbox 360 in so many different areas, such as making use of true next-gen lighting techniques, designing fully destructible environments and really exploiting the game's concepts into new multiplayer areas with the Xbox Live online game service. Crossfire will offer a new approach to the next-gen FPS genre.Ф

Eidos also said that Crossifre would "debut exclusively first" on the Xbox 360 and PC, so a PS3 version is probably not out of the question sometime later.