



If any of the open-world driving or interesting combat from those games comes over to Contraband and its co-op-focused heists, then Xbox may just have another bow in an ever-growing quiver of exclusives worth talking about. Contraband Trailer (2012) Trailer for Contraband. While Just Cause's explosive gameplay has always hooked the headlines over the years, Mad Max's engaging story-driven campaign and Rage 2's aggressive first-person combat was proof that Avalanche has a lot of range in what it can produce.
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It's clear that Contraband is still very early in its lifecycle, but it has the potential to turn heads when it does hit Xbox Series X and PC in the years to come. " We’re taking everything that we’ve learned from 18 years of being at the forefront of creating beautiful, vast open game worlds filled with stunning vistas and incredible emergent gameplay moments." He reveals that it will run on the next generation of the Apex Engine, the tech that was behind the Just Cause series, and that Contraband builds directly from those games. On the Xbox Wire blog, Contraband director Omar Shakir went into a bit more detail about Avalanche's new project. There's no sight in the video of who players embody in the game and no firm release date to share. The audience later sees the chest was already stolen, which leads to a slick logo reveal that also fits in-universe. Starting off on a record player with an appropriate soundtrack, the camera sweeps through a secret bungalow showing off plans for a heist to steal a chest. Set in a fictional country called Bayan in the 1970s, Avalanche's game certainly evokes the chill mood of the decade throughout its reveal.
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Thanks to today's release trailer, it is known that Contrabandwill be coming to Xbox Series X and Windows PCs via Xbox Game Pass when it eventually releases. Related: Starfield Is Xbox Exclusive & Releases Day One On Game Pass The rumor also stated that the talks were still in the early stages, so it's also possible that the rumored merger will become official sometime in the future. It's also known that IOI has some sort of project in the works with Xbox at the moment, and it's possible that it will also be a publishing deal rather than a straight merger. As seen in today's reveal, it seems that Xbox will publish Avalanche's next game, but it might just end there. At one point, there was talk of Xbox acquiring Avalanche alongside IOI Interactive and Crytek. A partnership between Avalanche Studios and Xbox Game Studios was rumored before E3, but the truth was different than what people assumed.
