What does it take to develop something revolutionary in the crowded first-person shooter (FPS) market, experimented with in countless ways, and starved of innovation over the last several years—Money? Innovation? Technology? Creativity?
The Finals by Nexon subsidiary Embark Studios, born in December 2023, might provide the answer. Backed by a substantial funding of about , before starting work on the game the developers diverted time and investment to use , , , and even such as advanced server-sided destruction, which helped in the creation of a completely destructible environment, an innovation the likes of which had never been achieved before in the FPS genre.
