Beyond: Two Souls - The Bear and Badger

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Released date: 11th of October 2013

From the visionary mind of David Cage, director of the award-winning Heavy Rain™, comes the most powerfully emotional experience on PlayStation® 3. A singularly unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances, BEYOND: Two Souls™ takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.

Born with a connection to a mysterious entity with incredible powers, Jodie was different. In an adventure spanning 15 years of her life, your actions will determine Jodie's fate as she faces extraordinary challenges, danger, and heartwrenching loss on a journey to discover the truth of who she is. Beyond promises an emotionally-charged journey unlike any video game before.

- Dive into a gripping and unpredictable psychological action thriller starring Academy Award-nominees Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe.
- Explore stunning and varied settings across the world in an epic journey through 15 years of a character's life.
- Control Jodie and an invisible entity through spectacular action sequences and puzzles with unique controls.
- Experience cutting-edge technology from Quantic Dream in one of the best-looking games ever seen on the PlayStation®3.

Raiziel

I started playing Heavy Rain at the weekend. Â It's certainly different and reminds me of the film Seven somewhat. Â Beyond's new engine is certainly a startling upgrade over Heavy Rain. Â I'll be keeping an eye on it.

Facewon

Fuck you in the ass game with souls in the title.

Brooks

I can't find a good animgif of his in-game backflip.

Rev

Facewon wrote:

Fuck you in the ass game with souls in the title.

oooh, someones had a falling out with their sl80 build...

Mod74

Chopper down.

Matt_82

Raiziel wrote:

I started playing Heavy Rain at the weekend. Â It's certainly different and reminds me of the film Seven somewhat. Â Beyond's new engine is certainly a startling upgrade over Heavy Rain. Â I'll be keeping an eye on it.

I think that Heavy Rain being something new and different got it a lot of leeway with people. Â Certainly people (myself included) were prepared to look past the faults and appreciate the new experience. Â If Beyond is similar I'm not too sure that it will be given the same.

Maybe this is for a different thread but for me, the high praise for Heavy Rain helps demonstrate how starved we are these days of creativity for consoles.

Facewon

revelthedog wrote:

Facewon wrote:

Fuck you in the ass game with souls in the title.

oooh, someones had a falling out with their sl80 build...

No, someone sees a thread with Souls in it and gets a little excited, and then has his hopes dashed by David cunting Cage.

Mod74

Matt_82 wrote:

Raiziel wrote:

I started playing Heavy Rain at the weekend. Â It's certainly different and reminds me of the film Seven somewhat. Â Beyond's new engine is certainly a startling upgrade over Heavy Rain. Â I'll be keeping an eye on it.

I think that Heavy Rain being something new and different got it a lot of leeway with people. Â Certainly people (myself included) were prepared to look past the faults and appreciate the new experience. Â If Beyond is similar I'm not too sure that it will be given the same. Maybe this is for a different thread but for me, the high praise for Heavy Rain helps demonstrate how starved we are these days of creativity for consoles.

I'm hoping Cage has learnt from Heavy Rain and does less of the weird/annoying stuff in this. But at the same time some of that was part of what made Heavy Rain so unique so I'm not sure I'd want Beyond to be any less wacky.

Brooks

I'd like to think Cage/Quantic's expensively awkward output was something only the Games Industry could come up with, but really it's probably all over Hollywood and a couple other film/telly sectors too at this point.

Bollockoff

Is it worth playing even if you've had the killer spoiled for you?

Brooks

If you enjoy a good cringe-o-lol, sure.

adkm1979

I didn't find it worth playing past the prologue. Â Utter fucking shite.

MattyJ

I quite liked Heavy Rain, I'm glad I played it.

Will be keeping an eye on this one.

fullspectrum

The story revelled in the parts designed to make you squeamish, and didn't leave enough creeping fear of the unknown, or focus on the psychological aspects it teased (the drug taking cop was a nice exception to that actually).

The idea that there could have been a different killer based on your actions with each character kept me playing till the end, and I was hugely disappointed when I realised you couldn't affect this part of it. Imagine deliberately making one of them the killer - such a missed opportunity to tune into people's sense of control and natural ability to manipulate and create stories.

Eyes firmly on this one to see how it might tackle this problem of letting you feel in control, whislt inexorably marching towards the fixed end of Cage's story.

Rev

Facewon wrote:

revelthedog wrote:

Facewon wrote:

Fuck you in the ass game with souls in the title.

oooh, someones had a falling out with their sl80 build...

No, someone sees a thread with Souls in it and gets a little excited, and then has his hopes dashed by David cunting Cage.

I hope Its a little way off - still getting to grips with this one.

Mod74

Bollockoff wrote:

Is it worth playing even if you've had the killer spoiled for you?

You know when you watch Murder She Wrote, is the killer a shocking revalation to you or had you worked it out in the first three minutes?

If the former then yeah, you might not enjoy already knowing, if the latter then you'd have worked out Heavy Rain long before the end anyway.

Brooks

If he presents HD CG Angela Lansbury all, or at least some is forgiven.

Mod74

She was quite the little minx in her youth, so yeah, I'd be in for that version as well.

Moto70

I'm still undecided about whether or not to pick up Heavy Rain.

I know who the killer his and whereas I wouldn't expect this to change if I enjoy it or not it would adversely affect how I interact with that character as I obviously wouldn't warm to them. I do have a Move though whether this makes Heavy Rain better or worse I do not know, I'll have to have a bit more of a ponder before deciding which way to jump...

JMW

I thought the Move controls in Heavy Rain were pretty shit, did only play the demo though.

Mod74

I'd recommend anyone play it, just to experience it. Put it on the easiest difficulty (if it has one) and then just watch it as a vaguely interactive movie.

I still can't properly say whether I enjoyed it or whether it was even any good.

Plornt

New trailer has been release today. Still looks awesome.

Bollockoff

I guess from her dialogue and the name of the game that she's got herself a nice guardian poltergeist following her around rather than going all TETSUOOOOOO.

adkm1979

Plornt wrote:

New trailer has been release today. Still looks awesome.

I can see the box already.

BEYOND features:
â€¢ Quantic Dream Rainâ„¢ for lots of Atmosphere
â€¢ Tiny depth of field for even more Atmosphere
â€¢ Shaky-cam for increased Atmosphere
â€¢ Exciting Navigate-a-train-roof gameplay
â€¢ Proprietary Walk Between Trees control scheme
â€¢ Entirely set at night for unparalleled Atmosphere

[Deleted User]

looks great.

Mod74

There's a off screen gameplay video linked from the above

Seems you play a ghost for some bits and then the usual Heavy Rain QTE's when you control wee Ellen.

It also looks pretty wank.

Ho hum.

Brooks

See, clearly, clearly the tech exists for a hardcore, guff-free Angela-Lansbury's-ghost-pranks-the-shit-out-of-people-incl.-wotsit-from-Juno sim but is that is sufficient for Cage*? Is it fuck.

*"Cayje" or "Cahhje"? I mean he is French or summat.

adkm1979

It's pronounced "Divide Coadge".

LazyGunn

Dunno why this game reminds me of cryo's efforts, and whoever did those Inca games

Brooks

adkm1979 wrote:

It's pronounced "Divide Coadge".

Learn a thang err'day.

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