This latest gameplay trailer reveals how its violent mech-within-a-mech gameplay works, dropping traditional cover systems for agility and an arsenal of high-powered weaponry.

In Beyond Flesh and Blood you play as conscripted engineer Ethan Cunningham. Ethan is one of the remaining members of the human race, hidden away on an orbital space station full of survivors that fled the surface of Earth. The Earth, itself, has become a severely inhospitable place.

"Ethan Cunningham is an engineer from the United Global Remnant: the very last survivors of humanity." "The year is 2281 and military grade VR is the only way back to Earth, 80 years after a Global War for resources forced decent society to the edge of Earth's atmosphere. Space is safe but rumours of aliens, terrorists and a meteorite strike finally conscript Ethan away from the UGR Astralis orbital colony." "He must pilot a series of increasingly advanced Tactical Frames alongside the UGR. They are used to hack the security, identify enemies, and destroy all hostile scavenger forces. But Ethan's first real task is to survive dystopia and go Beyond Flesh and Blood. "

I've played early builds of Beyond Flesh and Blood, both on my Surface Pro 3 and on a Xbox One at last year's EGX convention, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. If you'd like to know more about the game, I interviewed lead developer Lee Blacklock last summer, right here on Windows Central.