{"id":84382,"date":"2026-06-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84382"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:43:26","slug":"titanfall-fans-are-in-for-a-treat-with-empulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84382","title":{"rendered":"Titanfall Fans Are In For A Treat With Empulse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Splitgate developer 1047 Games is back with Empulse, a new competitive shooter that, as GameSpot discovered, is to Titanfall 2 what Splitgate was to Halo. Jean-Luc got to go hands-on with the new shooter, which enters early access later this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though it&#8217;s heavily inspired by the Titanfall games, which should be pretty clear from the gameplay footage, it wasn&#8217;t the sole source of inspiration for Empulse. Jean-Luc found the gunplay to feel closer to the Halo-y style of Splitgate than the ADS-heavy Titanfall, but the movement and grappling abilities, as well as the mechs (yes, this game has mechs) should be very familiar to fans of Respawn&#8217;s masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One big change from Titanfall 2 is the way you deal with those mechs if you&#8217;re on the ground. There are no dedicated anti-mech guns here, but you do have access to a big ol&#8217; hammer that is very effective against them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than use a free-to-play model like Splitgate, Empulse is a $20 release, and 1047 is going with an old-school monetization approach&#8211;there will be no cash shop when the game launches in early access on June 24 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Splitgate developer 1047 Games is back with Empulse, a new competitive shooter that, as GameSpot discovered, is to Titanfall 2 what Splitgate was to Halo. Jean-Luc got to go hands-on with the new shooter, which enters early access later this month. Though it&#8217;s heavily inspired by the Titanfall games, which should be pretty clear from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":84384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84385,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84382\/revisions\/84385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}