After Left 4 Dead 2 had come and gone people wondered what that studio might go on to make next. After key personnel left the studio following Valve’s decision not to continue with the franchise they went on to look for a new studio and a new publisher, but kept their ideas firmly in place. They wanted to make asymmetric multiplayer experiences that were a little out of the ordinary. They had done it twice before, could they do it again? Evolve was born.
This game wasn’t the standard 4 vs AI and 4 vs 4 multiplayer that the studio had pioneered with Left for Dead. Instead this was 5 player multiplayer, exclusively in a 4 vs 1 scenario. Expanding on the Tank gameplay from Left for Dead Evolve pits one monster against 4 players. The monster starts weak but, over the course of a match, can get extremely powerful. It’s very tense and very strategic.