I played hands-on with multiple missions in a preview Remedy Entertainment‘s FBC: Firebreak game. You’ll spend so much time exterminating monsters known as The Hiss that you’ll feel like a rodent exterminator.

It’s a quirky game with beautiful triple-A graphics and some quirky humorous elements, like the presence of tons of paper sticky notes through some of the levels. It’s a co-op first-person shooter game, with online play for three players. It’s a nice change for Remedy, as I love its narrative-based games — I’ve played every one of them — but this game has a kind of short and intense Left4Dead feel to it.

FBC: Firebreak is set in the universe of Remedy’s Control. It is set within the world of a mysterious federal agency under assault by extradimensional forces. You have to battle through hordes of different types of reality-warping anomalies and otherworldly monsters with your two friends / two other players, customize your gear and level up as you fight back against this ever-growing threat.

For six years after the events of Control, the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), a bureaucratic government agency that deals with the paranatural world, has been trapped in its headquarters, a shifting, extradimensional office building known as the Oldest House.

This self-imposed lockdown was in response to an invasion of the Hiss, a harmful resonance from another dimension with the ability to infect humans and turn them into chaotic monsters. Since it began, no one and nothing has been allowed in or out, leading to growing shortages of critical resources.