Warframe (2013)
Warframe is a 2013 shooter video game made by Digital Extremes.
You wake from centuries of cryo-sleep into a solar system carved up by warring factions: the cloned Grineer, the profiteering Corpus, the spreading Infested. You are Tenno, and your power runs through the Warframe, a bio-mechanical suit with its own abilities and identity. Missions send you sprinting, sliding, and wall-running across ships and open worlds, gathering parts to build the next frame and the next weapon. The story runs far deeper than the shooting once its secrets start to unfold. A free game that keeps growing, dense with systems and patient with newcomers who stick around.
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What is Warframe about?
You wake from centuries of cryo-sleep into a solar system carved up by warring factions: the cloned Grineer, the profiteering Corpus, the spreading Infested. You are Tenno, and your power runs through the Warframe, a bio-mechanical suit with its own abilities and identity. Missions send you sprinting, sliding, and wall-running across ships and open worlds, gathering parts to build the next frame and the next weapon. The story runs far deeper than the shooting once its secrets start to unfold. A free game that keeps growing, dense with systems and patient with newcomers who stick around.
When was Warframe released?
Warframe was released on 25 March 2013.
Who made Warframe?
Warframe was made by Digital Extremes.
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A few thoughts on Warframe
The heart of it is a mind riding a machine body, a self poured into hardware. Ghost in the Shell sits right on that line between pilot and shell, asking who is really in control. For the mood, Blade Runner scores the same lonely, neon-slick future the Tenno drift through between missions.
Manga where a mechanical body carries someone's soul
The Tenno pilot a Warframe, a living suit of armor with its own voice, and the game treats that bond as central to who you are. Fullmetal Alchemist binds a soul into a suit of armor, Galaxy Express 999 chases a mechanical body, Ghost in the Shell questions where the self ends and the machine begins, and Phoenix follows one life force across bodies and ages.
Stories with a mythology that keeps getting bigger the longer you stay
Warframe's story stays quiet at first, then keeps unearthing a much older war behind everything you do as a Tenno. Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon build the same sense of history pressing on the present, Stranger Things keeps widening its hidden world season after season, and Avatar: The Last Airbender reveals its spirit world and deeper stakes gradually as the journey goes on.
Aggressive, sci-fi-scaled music for an endless space war
Warframe scores its parkour combat and endless three-faction war with a driving, cinematic sense of scale. Deltron 3030 raps a whole sci-fi war saga, The Fat of the Land hits with the same aggressive, mechanized energy, Muse's Black Holes and Revelations and Simulation Theory build widescreen space-age drama, and Ayreon's Universal Migrator plays out an entire interstellar conflict across two records.