Watch 15 minutes of Battleborn’s cooperative campaign

I think 2K Games and Gearbox suprised the world when they unveiled Battleborn for the first time back in July. Although much of the focus was on the competitive multiplayer aspect of the game, there's also a pretty interesting story here.

"Battleborn’s story is set in a distant sci-fi fantasy future, where all but one star in the universe has gone dark at the hands of the vicious Varlesi," 2K explained alongside today's new video. "A single solitary beacon of hope remains – the last star, Solus. In the wake of the chaos, different species of survivors take refuge in the Solus system and form five factions based on their beliefs. Heroes called battleborn emerge from each faction and fight for what little resources are left in the system. Now, the Varelsi are threatening to finish what they’ve started, and only a united team of the universe’s most powerful heroes can stop them."

Battleborn features team-based, first-person shooting with a deep roster of playable heroes. According to Gearbox, no two heroes play the same, and each has their own unique weapons, powers, and personalities that "can be fully experienced" in a cooperative campaign mission. Today's video gives us fairly lengthy look at on of those missions, featuring a 5-player team.

Battleborn is due out for Xbox One, PS4, and PC in 2015.