With Fuse, Insomniac’s hoping to convince us it’s made a bona fide cooperative shooter, not just a shooter with that feature — among other shooter tropes — tacked on. Yes, it’s a futuristic third-person cover game like Gears of War, but also apparently very little like Gears of War in its tactical particulars, focused more on oblique, ability-based approaches to combat and less on the usual overwhelming forced-based run-and-gunnery.
May 28
PS3, Xbox 360