Housemarque Is Really Spoiling Us with Matterfall

Watch a full eight minutes of gameplay

by Sammy Barker Mon 17th Jul 2017

Nex Machina only just released, but Housemarque is already set to return to the PlayStation 4 with Matterfall in August. And the side-scrolling twin-stick shooter is looking awesome. Embedded above is an eight minute playthrough which details how the game operates, and it’s incredible how faithful it appears to be to the Finnish developer’s DNA.

Are you looking forward to this one? Run and gun your way into the comments section below.

[source youtube.com]

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.

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SoulsBourne128
Mon 17th Jul 2017

Looks like what Might No.9 should have played.

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Flurpsel
Mon 17th Jul 2017

I miss Dead Nation and Helldivers. The last games by Housemarque have gone too much into the arcade style for my taste.

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Flaming_Kaiser
Mon 17th Jul 2017

@Flurpsel Could not disagree more Dead Nation and Helldivers could not even touch Nex Machima and i think Matterfall will be better to but thats personal.

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Flurpsel
Mon 17th Jul 2017

@Flaming_Kaiser well I think they're very different games. If you like arcade I can understand you like this better.

@JoeBlogs huh, looks like you're right. Not sure where I got that from.

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Quintumply
Mon 17th Jul 2017

@Flurpsel If you liked Dead Nation and Helldivers, maybe Alienation would be more up your street?

Matterfall is looking pretty good!

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Flurpsel
Mon 17th Jul 2017

@Quintumply yes I had high hopes for Alienation but didnt really like it in the end. I felt like there wasnt enough diversity in weapons and shooting stuff just wasnt super satisfying. Not like Helldivers at least.

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wiiware
Mon 17th Jul 2017

Yes, I'm looking forward to this. The boss reminding me of one of the early enemies in megaman x1. Now that I think about it, capcom should hire these guys to make new megaman x game

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KingSimba
Mon 17th Jul 2017

I wasn't entirely convinced by it, but now having watched this gameplay many times and glad it changed my mind. Gameplay feels good and it looks like the offspring of Outland and Resogun. But Jari (Housmarque) confirmed in the PlayStation E3 interview that they won't use Voxel visuals for Matterfall, they'll use 3D polygons (Wonder why?). Bit disappointed, but I hope it turns out great.

Link of the interview (Skip to 2:50):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgJLXR_5kiY