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2014 · Edge of Reality · Arcade · Indie

Loadout

PlayStation console exclusive

Loadout is an outrageous new multi-player shooter that’s all about the guns, baby! Build a massive variety of absolutely insane weaponry - billions of combinations - totally customized, totally unique, and totally deadly.

Released: 16 December 2014
Platforms: PlayStation 4 Windows
Genres: Arcade Indie Shooter Third-person shooter
Developers: Edge of Reality
Publishers: Edge of Reality
Modes: Multiplayer
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Science fiction Comedy
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB M

About

Loadout is a free-to-play multiplayer third-person shooter developed by Edge of Reality. It was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows, then co-published as a special PlayStation 4 version with P-40 Online Entertainment. Loadout focused on arcade-style multiplayer firefights across a variety of modes and used exaggerated cartoon gore. Players could alter the appearance of their in-game avatar, as well as the properties of their weapons using in-game currency.

Edge of Reality has since discontinued development of the game. On January 23, 2018, CE-Asia (in collaboration with P-40) published the game on PlayStation 4 in several Asian countries as a paid "Premium Edition". Other game servers were closed on May 24, 2018, due to the inability to comply with the onset of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. On September 26, 2020, Loadout Premium's servers were shut down due to inability to afford the server cost. However, a fan project is currently attempting to revive the game and has brought working multiplayer.

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Reception

Loadout received mixed to positive critic reviews (72 on Metacritic), 4 out of 5 stars (51,800 player reviews) on PlayStation 4, and “Very Positive” (35,986 player reviews) on Steam.

The Escapist gave Loadout a rating score of 80 and wrote this bottom line in their review: "A surprisingly well crafted multiplayer shooter full of options, amusing cartoon violence, and rock solid action. That Loadout does all this, and provides a respectably balanced free-to-play ecosystem, is encouraging to see."