ARC Raiders Hands-On Preview: Come For The Violence, Stay For The Rooster

ARC Raiders is an upcoming multiplayer extraction shooter from Embark Studios, the team behind 2023’s hit first-person shooter The Finals. Last week, CGMagazine was invited to go hands-on with an early build of ARC Raiders and explore Embark’s vision of a lethal, post-post-apocalyptic Earth.

After an excruciatingly tense nine-hour tour through three robot-infested hellscapes, I can report that ARC Raiders is shaping up to be a top-tier third-person sci-fi adventure — and one of the most distinctive extraction shooters to date.

ARC Raiders is set in the distant future, long after Earth was devastated by a mysterious mechanical force called ARC. To escape their ruthless oppressors, humanity’s survivors retreated deep underground into bastion cities such as our home, Speranza. To keep Speranza alive, its bravest citizens — and a rooster named Scrappy — must return to the surface to scavenge the ruins, fill their backpacks with recyclable loot and race home before ARC forces... Read more