Creative Assembly, the developer behind the hugely popular first-person survival horror game Alien: Isolation, has been working on a new IP. The studio has remained rather secretive on its latest project, but a new job opening at Creative Assembly hints that the game could be a hero-based shooter.First noticed by VG247, Creative Assembly is looking for a lead hero designer to work on `a ground-breaking FPS.` The role asks for someone who can lead the creative process for `exciting playable characters` that each have `a range of amazing thought and play provoking specialties.` It sounds like Creative Assembly is designing a first-person shooter game that features a cast of diverse playable characters that each possess their own unique set of skills and abilities, much like Overwatch, Rainbow Six: Siege, and Apex Legends.The lead hero designer role also asks applicants to have a `broad understanding of monetization, rewards, and art production` and a willingness to provide `guidance on visual design and cosmetics.` This further reinforces the comparison to the hero-based shooters listed above, as all three feature cosmetics tied to some form of microtransactions.Earlier job postings at Creative Assembly have referred to the developer`s new title as a tactical shooter, but not much else is publicly known about the game. Given that hero shooters have been done for a while now, it`s unlikely the `ground-breaking` description of the game is in reference to hero-focused combat. What`s more likely is that Creative Assembly is designing a game that utilizes hero-based combat in a genre that hasn`t been done much of before, similarly to how Respawn innovated on hero-focused shooters by putting those mechanics into a battle royale game.
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