Two people who saw my screen during my time in Firefall assumed I was on yet another Borderlands 2 DLC adventure on Pandora. "I wish," I said. Firefall never manages to approach the same level of fun.

Firefall, for the uninitiated, is an upcoming massively multiplayer shooter from Red 5 Studios, who count World of Warcraft team lead Mark Kern and lead designer of Tribes Scott Youngblood among their ...