Killing Floor 3: A very risky change is coming for the co-op shooter

Killing Floor 3 is almost here: the new co-op shooter from Tripwire Interactive will be released in March 2025. Fans are looking forward to the title. But there is a big, controversial innovation.

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Take: a large portion of powerful gunplay, six people for the co-op spectacle, challenging wave gameplay and lots of meat and intestines!

The result is something that my mother would never tolerate on the lunch table. ButIt's not for my mom either, but for fans of brutal action and endless splatter.

Nine years after Killing Floor 2, the third part of the series will finally be released in March 2025 and from what we've seen so far, Killing Floor 3 could be the most fun co-op shooter sincebecome.

Since we played Part 3 at Gamescom last year, the devs at Tripwire Interactive have been releasing more and more information and details about new enemies, gameplay changes and more over the last few months.

Simple principle with a high fun factor

The biotech company Horzine has plunged the world of Killing Floor into apocalypse after unleashing its monstrous bio-weapons on humanity. As an elite unit, we and up to five other players shoot our way through seemingly endless hordes of Zeds - these are the mutated monster men that we and up to five other players destroy.

Our goal: send as many Zeds to hell as possible. Veterans of the first two parts will feel right at home: In the matches we fight our way through increasingly strong waves of opponents and earn money for better weapons and equipment. At the end of each round we face a powerful boss monster.

According to creative designer Bryan Wynia, a big inspiration for Killing Floor 3 was the idea “Science Gone Wrong.” So experiments that simply went terribly wrong.

Specific examples are SciFi films such as Aliens, Terminator, Predator or Total Recall. The groups of “Well Trained Badasses” from Aliens and Predator were particularly an inspiration for our elite unit.