Of course, these enormous contraptions can do more than just mine. The Interstellar Mining Corporation develops incredibly powerful, 24-foot-tall surveying/mining suits called Titans. The game’s story takes place in the distant future after humans have colonized their way out to “the very edge of explored space.” But as every sci-fi flick ever made will tell you, once mankind starts reaching out to new frontiers, a couple of things will inevitably happen: We will develop amazing new technologies … and run into deadly resistance. The mag went on to say that Titanfall is doing a bang-up job of riding those long coattails, becoming this year’s shooter of choice, and suggesting that its gameplay concepts and tech could make it “the most addictive game ever.” I recently saw a stat in Popular Science magazine estimating that if you added up all the hours gamers have spent online shooting one another in the Call of Duty universe, it would tally in at, oh, 2.9 million years. That online multiplayer favorite has become a juggernaut of gigantic proportions. That’s partly because the game was developed by Respawn Entertainment, a company co-founded by a duo that had a hand in a small little gaming franchise you may have heard of: Call of Duty.
And the new run-gun-and-jump-monster-mech title Titanfall is currently considered by many to be on the top of the sometimes messy stack. The multiplayer online shooter game is now considered a vital inclusion in the libraries of most avid button-mashers.