inXile Entertainment was founded in 2002 by industry veteran Brian Fargo. During his distinguished tenure in the video game business, Fargo has been behind some of the greatest fantasy game franchises of all time including The Bard's Tale, Baldur's Gate, and Fallout. Hunted's development is being overseen by Fargo while Michael "Maxx" Kaufman serves as the game's Director. Previously, Kaufman served as Art Director on such titles as Kingpin: Life of Crime, Redneck Rampage and the award-winning Return to Castle Wolfenstein® at Gray Matter.

Whatever the case, Hunted's combat could be broadly described as Gears-esque mostly because it's an over the shoulder third-person action game, it uses the Unreal Engine 3, and it has a cover system. In fact, it uses a destructible cover system, which are words that we don't often use to describe a fantasy RPG. Featuring two playable characters (a lady elf called E'lara and an uber masculine warrior called Caddoc) that are then utilised for online co-op play and local single-player (no local split-screen), Hunted blends together ranged and melee attacks punctuated by an array of different spells. inXIle also appears to be incorporating these different combat options with a specific focus on the co-op, positioning E'lara's strengths in ranged attacks and Caddoc's in melee combat.

Not only this, but the spells also reward intelligent co-op play. For example, one of E'lara's spells allows her to fire ice arrows that freeze enemies on impact, which Caddoc can then easily pick apart with his manly sword. And then there's the 'Battle Charge' system, which allows each character to throw spells at the other from long range to "buff" their skills during combat. One demo we saw had E'lara throwing a spell at Caddoc from a balcony, which sent him into a 'Hell-fire Rage', while the same system is then used for healing spells as well.