There are few games as ridiculously wild, visually inventive, and endlessly ambitious as Warframe. Digital Extremes seemingly has one mode when designing the game’s world, and it’s going full balls to the wall.

The best proof of this is the full reveal of Warframe 1999, an update that takes the slick sci-fi imagery of Warframe and adds helpings of the Metal Gear franchise, classic anime, boy bands, and early instant messaging services.

Warframe takes place in a far, far away sci-fi future. The ancient Orokin empire has colonized Mercury, Mars, and the other planets in the Origin System. Their attempts to colonize other systems backfired, leading to an AI war. The player takes up the role of a Tenno, an ancient warrior caste inhabiting a super-fast and strong robot........

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