Warframe is perhaps one of the best comeback stories in the gaming industry. Despite a pretty rough launch, the game has managed to gain a significant following over the past six years, with multiple expansions, and added content. It's perhaps one of the absolute best free-to-play games available today.
However, even though it has come back from the brink of disaster to become a big success, there's one thing Warframe never got: A fancy cinematic trailer. There's no better flex than starting your game off with a big budget CGI video to get your blood pumping. Well it took Warframe six years to get it, but Digital Extremes finally has a trailer that they can call their own.
The trailer was revealed at this year's Tennocon, which is essentially E3 if it was only about Warframe. The trailer is sort of a prologue to the game itself, and it helps new players get better acquainted with the world they're about to drop into.
It shows a human girl running from the villainous Grineer army. She reaches a temple, and plants flowers inside for the Tenno, who were beings that were so cool that they just decided to stop existing after they kicked everyone's ass. We then get examples of that as each of the starting frames, the sword wielding Excalibur, the electricity flinging Volt, and the magnetic and shiny helmeted Mag all wreak havoc, wiping out hundreds, perhaps thousands of soldiers. At the end of the trailer, they are seemingly woken up by lightning and injustice, and are ready to wreck another entire army, thus starting the game.
It's a bit odd for a game to get its cinematic intro six years after it's already been released, but Warframe hasn't taken a traditional route to success before, so this is par for the course for its developers. The trailer also has a pretty strong creative force behind it, as it was directed by Dan Trachtenberg, an avid Warframe player who also happens to be the director of 10 Cloverfield Lane, and the man who is currently trying to get the Tom Holland starring Uncharted film off the ground.
This new intro is just one of a few new additions announced at Tennocon. Also being added into the game is the Empyrean update, which will allow you and your friends to pilot your own ship, and then battle other ships in space. Along with this massive new feature, the game is also getting a new open world zone, and a new Nightwave Series, which is essentially their form of a battle pass. Most of these changes will be go into effect either later this year, or early into 2020.
Considering the insane amount of content that's been added to Warframe over time, there's almost no downside to checking it out. The game is free, and each new update adds something new, and in cases bizarre to the game. If you want to play something that feels like a a version of Anthem that was actually good, then you can pick up Warframe just about everywhere, including PC, Xbox One, PS4, and even the Nintendo Switch so you can slice and dice on the go.