![]() ![]() There’s a hazy blur throughout the game that seems out of place early on due to a lack of time travel–and therefore special effects–but becomes much more welcome later on when Jack gets into a time-aided firefight with a half dozen enemies. Using some creative techniques to blend the virtual world with the real one, Remedy utilizes a custom film-like filter over the player experience. Never before have we been able to move from live-action into the virtual space with such fluidity, and while it isn’t perfect, there is only a slight jar between the two segments of the game, making the transition smooth and effective. ![]() Remedy Entertainment has never been lazy in their execution of cutting edge visuals and production, and their latest title is absolutely no exception.Ĭharacters are modelled after their real-world counterparts– Quantum Break is part video game, part live-action television show–and there is little separating the human characters from their virtual doppelgängers. Quantum Break is a showpiece for Xbox One. Suspend disbelief and let the game draw you into its world, and the City of Riverport becomes an intensely interesting, albeit eerie, setting. The entire thing is farfetched, but it lays the groundwork for a game that is otherwise fantastic. The beginning of the game revolves around finding Will to see how to fix the time problem, but once that is sorted, the game goes off in a few other directions which we’ll be careful not to spoil. Unlike Jack, however, he decides to, of course, use his newly-crafted time powers for evil. In Quantum Break, you play as Jack Joyce, the brother of insanely smart Will Joyce, an engineer who has somehow managed to create a device that let’s people travel forward or backward through time. Perhaps the part of the game that is cliché is that there is a massive accident at the outset that causes Jack to have various time powers, while Paul Serene, the CEO of Monarch Corporation–a company you’ll love to hate–is also caught in the experiment gone wrong. Quantum Break doesn’t exactly aim to change that, but Remedy Entertainment manages to handle the concept of time manipulation in perhaps the most coherent way it’s ever been done. ![]() Time travel has long been a cliché in science fiction movies, books, and video games. ![]()
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