This is essentially the culmination of a concept Jay Allard gave a speech about at the beginning of Xbox Live. I can’t really find anything on the net about it any more, but he talked about this idea of anti-coop (where a human plays the role of the bad guy, the antagonist vs the the protagonist being also human).
It’s why the souls games excited me so much, and also the L4D games; I like the current L4D clones but they never have much equivalent to being the zombies in L4D. I always saw being the zombie as being an actor in someone else’s story, so I enjoyed making it as jump-scary as I could 🙂
So yeah, this is very exciting to me. It’s basically, finally, J Allard’s speech as an actual game, some twenty years later.
side note: it gives me serious Spies vs Mercs vibes too. I loved that mode in SC.