FBC Firebreak is dead on arrival, but it didn't have to be this way

I’ve started to consider multiplayer spinoffs from story-driven games a recession marker. This is, admittedly, not a political science endorsed by world economists. Instead, it’s predicated on my memories of that time. Occupy Wall Street. Recession pop. Shrinkflation. Tacked-on multiplayer. We’ve been teetering on the brink of a global recession for what feels like forever, so perhaps the emergence of multiplayer games like FBC Firebreak and Elden Ring Nightreign is inevitable.

MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best co-op games, Best FPS games, Best Game Pass games