Remedy demonstrated with Alan Wake that it was capable of telling a good, offbeat story, but Quantum Break is a more focused, successful effort in every way (and one full of Alan Wake Easter eggs, to boot). There's a question mark there because I'm still surprised to be saying it. Kojima - but Remedy has actually done it.Įven more surprisingly. Other narrative-heavy games that take the reins from the player for minutes or even hours at a time have often jokingly been criticized with the suggestion that their creators should "go make a movie" - I'm looking at you, Mr. This is no half-measure: Four out of five of Quantum Break's in-game acts are followed by half-hour live-action episodes using the same actors cast within the game proper. It's not that combat is bad - though its success is a little more uneven - but Remedy accomplishes something no one has really tried, much less successfully executed on: The studio has integrated the game of Quantum Break with a fully live-action episodic component. The way Quantum Break handles story is, easily, the most interesting, successful thing about it. By sticking to this concept, and mercilessly driving it home, Remedy pulls off the Looney Tunes rule pretty well - if you just keep running and don't look down, everything will be fine. Remedy's narrative operates from a simple, stabilizing premise: The past cannot be changed, but the future isn't set. Time travel stories are a tricky thing, and most collapse under the simplest scrutiny. There's a greater conspiracy afoot involving family friend Paul Serene and the mysterious - of course - Monarch Corporation, and Jack is thrust into the middle of it all as he tries to pick up the pieces and save existence. Quantum Break tells the story of Jack Joyce, the wayward brother of a physics genius who has discovered the workings of quantum theory and, in the process, threatened the fabric of time itself.
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I'm surprised to say that Quantum Break's TV show element actually works Despite a development period that saw Quantum Break seemingly pulled toward two very different storytelling mediums, Remedy has found a remarkably successful marriage of on-demand television and narrative-driven action game - albeit one with some confusing quirks. Weird, in this case, doesn't get in the way of good - or even great. Now, six years after Alan Wake and with even more pressure behind the studio for a flagship first-party game for Microsoft's Xbox One, Remedy has managed something surprising: to stay a little weird.
Neither game was perfect, each with its own idiosyncracies, but they were driven by a clear vision.
Remedy has always displayed a flair for putting its own distinct, and often bizarre, spin on genres - from the hard-boiled detective dreamscapes of Max Payne to the Dark Half-era Stephen King overtones of a terrifying Pacific Northwest in Alan Wake. If nothing else, Quantum Break demonstrates that Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment's priorities remain constant.
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