more people implied to be Ghosts like him. Development The original Crossfire, developed by Smilegate Entertainment, is an extremely popular free-to-play multiplayer game for personal computers in the East. The team wanted to expand the narrative of the franchise and introduce it to a broader audience. Therefore, the team partnered with Microsoft to create a console version and entrusted Remedy Entertainment, a Finnish video game developer, to create a single-player campaign for the game, alongside a PC version of the campaign for Crossfire HD in China. As Remedy at that time was exploring the idea of working on a first-person shooter, and planned on developing multiple projects at once, the team agreed to help Smilegate. Remedy had been working on the single-player portion since 2016. The single-player portion will be powered by Remedy's own Northlight engine, which was used previously in Quantum Break and Control. Remedy was chosen due to the team's expertise in creating memorable fictional worlds and characters. Inspired by Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil, the team hoped to create characters that are "larger-than-life". An open beta was available for Xbox Insiders from June 25 to June 28, 2020. In November 2020, Smilegate Entertainment announced that the game would be delayed to 2021. The game was eventually released on February 10, 2022, for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S consoles. Reception CrossfireX received "generally unfavorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Metacritic listed CrossfireX as the second-worst game of 2022. IGN criticized the storytelling, calling the characters bland while describing the multiplayer as having "atrocious gunplay and controls". Polygon criticized the pacing of the game. References External links Crossfire (series) 2022 video games Unreal Engine games Video games developed in Finland Video games developed in South Korea First-person shooters Xbox One games Xbox Series X and Series S games Terrorism in fiction Free-to-play video games Tactical shooter video games Remedy Entertainment games Multiplayer and single-player video games Video games postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic