Gameshow FPS The Finals has just gotten a surprise release

The wait is finally over

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Surprise! Embark Studios’ free-to-play first-person shooter (FPS),The Finals, just got its release date announced at The Game Awards 2023. The best part? That date is today. Like, right now.

The Finalsis a multiplayer FPS that has players step into the shoes of a game show contestant and “compete for worldwide fame and the support of our discerning and stylish sponsors.” They must battle it out in virtual arenas inspired by real-life locations, such as Seoul and Monaco, where pretty much everything can be destroyed, adding to the immersion and dynamism of the action.

Modes include the frantic 3v3v3 Quick Cash, which tasks players with breaking into a vault and then transporting the loot over to a cashout point on the map while fighting it out against other trios of players. There’s also the more casual-focused Bank-It mode, which has four teams of three duke it out while attempting to collect as many coins as possible.

Back in October, gamers on all major current-gen platforms (PlayStation 5,Xbox Series X|S, and PC) were able to try out a number of different modes and maps in anopen cross-play beta. It was incredibly successful, too, with around7.5 million players logging onto see what all the fuss was about.

Here at TechRadar Gaming, editor-in-chief Jake Tucker was a big fan ofThe Finalsduring its open beta period, noting that it’s“the most fun I’ve had in a multiplayer shooter all year.”He added: “The Finalsdeserves to be huge, and the frenetic combat is genuinely incredible.”

Really, the only major issue that players noted in the open beta was the use ofawkward-sounding AI-generated voice linesforThe Finals’ commentators. The developers previously described AI as an “extremely powerful” tool, which turns recording and adding voice lines into “a matter of hours instead of months.” However, at the time of writing this article, it’s not clear if these AI-generated clips have been included in the final version of the game.

For more games like The Finals, be sure to check out our recommendations for thebest FPS games, as well as thebest free games.

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Catherine is a News Writer for TechRadar Gaming. Armed with a journalism degree from The University of Sheffield, she was sucked into the games media industry after spending far too much time on her university newspaper writing about Pokémon and cool indie games, and realising that was a very cool job, actually. She previously spent 19 months working at GAMINGbible as a full-time journalist. She loves all things Nintendo, and will never stop talking about Xenoblade Chronicles.

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