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2K Games has released a bevy of trailers for Evolve over the last year, but I guess there’s room for one more. Turtle Rock’s “4v1” shooter launches today and this “Launch Trailer” showcases exactly how the four Hunters square off against a single player-controlled Monster. If you’ve somehow avoided every mention of Evolve during the last 13 months, this trailer should still get you pretty excited.

Evolve is available now for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

With Evolve‘s launch less than a week away, 2K Games has released the practically de rigueur live-action trailer for the game. Titled “Ready Or Not,” the trailer drops five teenagers into the largest game of hide-and-seek you’ve ever seen. Tack on a haunting vocal track (in this case, “Ready Or Not” by Scala and Kolacny Brothers, a Belgian women’s choir) and you’ve got yourself a trailer. Still, it’s a pretty impressive piece of footage and it definitely evokes the mood that Turtle Rock is striving for with Evolve.

Evolve will be available for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on February 10.

With three eldritch horrors living it up on the planet Shear and a variety of other deadly fauna and flora, the world of Evolve is not a safe place for humanity. So the planet’s leaders have ordered an evacuation… except for a group of Hunters who have volunteered to challenge these creatures and protect the fleeing colonists.

Since fighting a beast from beyond the stars isn’t your average job, Turtle Rock Studios has put together this “Survival Guide” to acclimate players to the harsh realities of Shear. The video breaks down all four Hunter classes (Assault, Medic, Trapper, and Support), all three Monsters (Goliath, Kraken, and Wraith), all four game modes (fighting deathmatches in Hunt, breaking eggs in Nest, rescuing colonists in Rescue, and defending generators in Defend), and the Evacuation campaign. According to Turtle Rock, the Evacuation campaign can play out in more than 800,000 different ways based on which objectives are completed by the Hunters or the Monsters.

Evolve will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on February 10. Players who pre-order the game will receive the Monster Expansion Pack for free, which will add a fourth Monster as a playable character sometime this Spring.

After months of teasing, Turtle Rock Studios is finally ready to unveil Evolve‘s fourth Monster, Behemoth, which will be released as part of the game’s Monster Expansion Pack. The Monster Expansion Pack is being offered as a bonus to players who pre-order, but it will also be sold separately for $14.99. Either way you acquire it, the Monster Expansion Pack will be available this Spring.

So what can we expect from Behemoth? Aside from the excellent Indiana Jones-inspired trailer above, the rocky beast is the largest Monster that will ever be offered in Evolve. He is stronger than any other Monster and has more health and tougher armor too. Thankfully, he cannot leap or jump, but he can curl himself into a ball and roll over the Hunters.

Want more? The Evolve News Blog has an infographic comparing Behemoth’s girth to other grand endeavors and details his four attacks:

• Lava Bombs: Effective at short and long range, these mortar bombs shatter into fragments and continue to burn the area around them, including any Hunters who find themselves in the damage radius.
• Rock Wall: Creates a large, semi-circular rock structure that either traps victims inside with Behemoth, or locks him away from attackers.
• Tongue Grab: Behemoth uses his harpoon-like tongue to snatch a distant target and pull it into melee.
• Fissure: A wave of destruction blasts out of Behemoth, fracturing the terrain and scalding and stunning everything in its path.

Turtle Rock has also outlined some additional downloadable content that will grace Evolve after its PC, PS4, and Xbox One launch on February 10:

The Hunting Season Pass will include “Magma” skins for the three main Monsters and four new playable Hunters. The Hunting Season Pass will be available in the Spring and has been priced at $24.99 (each Hunter will also be sold separately for $7.49 apiece). It’s also available as part of the Digital Deluxe Edition, which will also include the main game and the Monster Expansion Pack. The Digital Deluxe Edition will be sold exclusively as a digital download, which has been priced at $79.99.

Lastly, the PC Monster Race Edition is a digital download exclusively for the PC that includes the main game, the Hunting Season Pass, the Monster Expansion Pack, and a special bundle of DLC featuring a fifth Monster, two additional Hunters, and four PC Monster Race-exclusive Monster skins. The PC Monster Race Edition has been priced at $99.99.

After a slight delay (it was originally scheduled to launch last Fall), it looks like Turtle Rock’s Evolve is ready for primetime. The developer confirmed that Evolve has passed certification and that it’s officially “gone gold.” With development complete, the manufacturing process can begin so that Evolve is ready to ship to stores on February 10.

To celebrate the pending launch of the PC, PS4, and Xbox One game, Turtle Rock has added Evolve merchandise to the 2K Store and given gamers a look at the game’s intro cinematic. The nearly-three-minute is pretty impressive, but be on the lookout for the crazy glint in the eye of Hank, the heavily-bearded Support character. I think he’s going to be my favorite. And speaking of beards, Turtle Rock revealed (via the game’s official website) that facial hair is no longer allowed in the office now that Evolve has passed certification:

And last, but not least, we have some beards to shave and hair to cut! Team members at Turtle Rock pledged to not shave or cut their hair until the game passed certification. For each inch of beard grown by the guys and hair cut by the ladies, we’d donate $50 to Child’s Play charity. The total length? 227.5 hairy inches! That comes out to $11,375 raised for Child’s Play – with the hair itself, if long enough, being donated to Locks of Love. 2K is matching the Turtle Rock Studios contribution, for a total donation of $22,750.

That’s fantastic!