CrossFire (video game)

CrossFire features several game modes, each with unique maps and rules.

Team Deathmatch

Teams work towards goals, such as first to x many kills, or the team with the most kills.

Search & Destroy

Black List's objective is to plant and detonate a C4 charge in a designated spot or kill all of the Global Risk players. Global Risk's objective is to eliminate all Black List players or prevent Black List from planting and detonating the charge within the match's time limit. Players do not respawn. Rounds last up to 3 minutes.

Free for All

No teams, teams kill as many players as possible. Players respawn at different locations. The round ends when a player reaches the kill quota for the match or the timer runs out. Weapon restrictions exist for this mode.

Elimination

Similar to TDM, except players do not respawn when killed. In some maps, players start only with their melee weapons and must pick up guns pre-set in the map. Rounds last up to three minutes, with Global Risk defaulting in wins.

Suppression Mode

A new, and much faster Search and Destroy. Each Black List player gets a bomb, and spawns only a few metres from the bomb plant site. The Global Risk must storm their defenses and disarm the bomb before it detonates.

Ghost Mode

All Black List mercenaries have invisibility and melee weapons, while all Global Risk mercenaries are fully visible, but can use all available weapons. Black List emits a heavy breathing sound, footsteps, splashes while running through water, and also become significantly visible while moving.

Shadow Mode

A variant of Ghost Mode. A player becomes a Shadow warrior which is an advanced ghost character. This mode introduces security devices such as Sensors, Lasers and Sprinklers to track down the Shadow warriors. In this map, there are certain parts of the floors which are covered with different textures (including broken glass) that will make more noise than others, making it easier for the Mercenary Soldiers to hear the Shadow Warrior movements.

Mutation Mode

One or two players are infected and mutated 20 seconds into the round. When the time is up or all mutants are dead, the soldiers win. If all the soldiers mutate or die, the mutants win. Mutants are knocked backwards when shot.

Escape Mode

A game mode where the Black List team must "escape" through a portal a certain number of times while the Global Risk team tries to prevent them. There are walls and doors that can be destroyed to make the escaping team's job easier or are a requirement to escape, at half time the teams switch sides (if the team finishes escaping early, then they immediately switch sides. If they do not complete their goal, then the other team only has to finish what the other team started).

Hero Mode

The game plays mostly like Mutation mode, but features a "Hero" character. 20 seconds into the round, one to three players randomly will mutate and one will become the "Hero". Also, mutants here will continue to respawn when killed unless they are killed with a headshot. The game ends when either the soldiers survive until the round ends or they are all mutated.

Hero Mode X

Random players are mutated after 20 seconds count down, and one of them is chosen to be the "Terminator" which has 6000 HP and can infect players with longer ranged lightning bolt attacks, making it a rather daunting foe for soldiers. Mutants can only be prevented from respawning by being killed with a melee attack rather than a headshot. The premise of this mode is that once only 2-3 players are left, they can have a chance to turn into Commandos, which cannot be infected like regular soldiers and possess dual kukris, which do massive damage to mutants and prevent them from respawning altogether, however Commandos cannot use firearms. The round ends either with all players infected/killed or if all the mutants are killed and cannot respawn. Also in this mode, it features a damage boost for soldiers, which deals much more damage to mutants and increases every time a soldier is infected. Soldiers can have a maximum of 340% damage boost, to the point of becoming Commandos themselves. This mode also features two expansion packs, one with a new Terminator-like mutant called Havoc, which is same equivalent as Terminator but has slashing attacks instead of electricity attacks and a Commando counterpart called Nemesis, a female commando armed with dual axes. The other expansion is called the Parasite Expansion, an upgraded add-on where the mutants side features a Devil Terminator mutant armed with long blades and a parasite bomb, and for the soldier's side features a new Commando called Devil Hunter armed with Twin Assassin Swords and can regain 200 HP for every mutants killed. In this add-on, the Devil Terminator can infect soldiers using its parasite bomb from a distance and the soldiers will have to shoot each other, if they were hit by the parasite bomb to prevent getting infected and curing the player or their teammates will have the player's primary weapon's ammo restocked.

Zombie Mode

Four players in a Zombie Apocalypse-esque scenario. Zombie Apocalypse consists of a team of four Global Risk mercenaries trying to survive a fixed number of rounds with a boss at the final round. The enemies featured in the game are a variety of "zombified" Black List mercenaries and mutants, each kind having their own characteristic. The game ends once the players survive through the rounds and kill the final boss in the map or if all the players are killed and cannot respawn.

Elite/Bounty Mode

This mode is the first with given money and battle results, similar to the concept of Counter Strike. When the battle begins, players can only use the pistol equipped in their inventory and must buy other weapons using their cash. Cash can be gained by killing opponents or planting/defusing the bomb. This mode is like S&D Pro.

Wave Mode

5v5 or 4v4 team based mode. Both teams must destroy the opposition's defense towers in order to reach the base, which has two "Last defense towers" guarding it, and players must destroy those two towers to start damaging the base (clearance of all side towers is not needed). This is the first mode where the player can pick one of eleven classes before joining the room. Each class is different and has its own skills. This mode also introduces NPCs, airstrikes, mortar bombs, energy transmitters and Class Upgrade Systems.

King Mode

No teams. Players compete in a series of mini-games each round, and the players with the highest score gets selected as a commander each round. The game continues until a player reaches a certain score and fight to be crowned the King.

Sheep Mode

No teams. Players compete to get the most points in the end by picking up sheep, which generate points every so often. Once someone has gotten to a point limit set before the game, the golden sheep is spawned, and everyone must fight to see who will get it.

Big Head

Team death match but with a twist, as the player kills they level up, increasing their head size. The maximum is five. A bar will fill up for each team and when it is full, that team will enter "Big Head" mode, where the player is able to instant kill anyone with a melee attack.

CrossFire weapons are based on real-life models, with each weapon belonging to a category. Categories include machine guns, assault rifles and sniper rifles. Each category is functionally similar to their real world counterparts (E.g. Machine guns are heavy, powerful, lay down heavy fire and have long reload times, Submachine guns are lighter and fire faster but deal less damage, Shotguns are effective in close range but ineffective at long distance.) Weapons often have many variations, including different skins which give them different attributes. In addition, the re-skinned versions are often rarer. There are also some weapons which are different from other weapons like the VIP weapons, which have better functions like faster reload, among others. Certain modes have mode-exclusive weapons.

Crossfire Mobile is a free application for mobile users to play a separate CrossFire experience on the go; while maintaining the overall aesthetic of the original game. The application is developed by Smilegate and Tencent. The game is running on Unity and was released on December 3rd (2015) for iOS and Android devices to all markets. The game is now only operating in China as other markets have been closed.

Crossfire Zero was a free spin-off first-person shooter PC game for the Southeast Asian market released in January 2020. This game featured two game modes, one which offered classic modes such as S&D and Team Death Match and the other offering a Battle Royale style mode. The game ran on Unity and has and was closed on the 28th October 2020.

Crossfire: Warzone is a spin-off real-time strategy mobile game, for iOS and Android mobile devices.[19] It was developed by Joycity, and released on July 28, 2020.[20]

Crossfire HD is a free spin-off first-person shooter PC game set to be released exclusively for China. This game has been described as a remastered version of the original Crossfire using Unreal Engine 3. Crossfire HD has recently went into a fourth closed beta in China in August 2020.

CrossfireX is a first-person shooter set to be released exclusively for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Smilegate Entertainment wanted to expand the narrative of the franchise and introduce it to a broader audience. Therefore, the team partnered with Xbox Game Studios to create a console version and entrusted Remedy Entertainment, a Finnish video game developer, to create a single-player campaign for the game.[21] As Remedy at that time was exploring the idea of working on a first-person shooter, and planned on developing multiple projects at once, the team agreed to help Smilegate.[22] Remedy had been working on the single-player portion since 2016.[23] The single-player portion will be powered by Remedy's own Northlight engine, which was used previously in Quantum Break and Control. Remedy was chosen due to the team's expertise in creating memorable fictional worlds and characters. Inspired by Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil, the team hoped to create characters that are "larger-than-life".[22]

In October 2015, it was announced that Neal Moritz would be producing a film version of CrossFire, after spending a year weighing up proposals from Hollywood producers and studios.[24]

In February 2020, it was announced that Sony Pictures will be developing the film adaptation, Tencent Pictures will co-produce and co-finance and Moritz will produce through his Original Film banner.[25]

CrossFire, a Chinese television drama series produced by Youhug Media and Tencent Holdings, premiered on July 20, 2020. The plot is a coming-of-age story about two young CrossFire gamers, played by Chinese movie stars Lu Han and Leo Wu, attempting to compete in CrossFire e-sports competitions. The show became a commercial success, receiving more than 980 million views on online streaming platforms within four weeks of release.[26] As of October 2020, the show has received more than 1.7 billion views in China.[27]