Stealth in survival horror games can either be a stroke of design genius or utterly immersion breaking, with the balance between the two being awfully hard to strike. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alien: Isolation gives you little choice but to hide from the Xenomorphs and Androids aboard the Sevastopol, with our main character having very few means to defend herself, while 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Evil Within often has your character moving too slowly with uneven enemy movement patterns, all but turning stealth into a tiresome chore. Though both build on the fear of bein🌠g caught, stealth and horror can be strange bedfellows.
This brings me to A Quiet Place: ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚThe Road Ahead, a newly announced survival horror game by Saber Interactive that plans to tell an entirely new story within the film universe. John Krasinski’s harrowing creation follows a family that struggles to survive after a race of hostile aliens with supersonic hearing arrive on Earth. As even the slightest sound will alert them, it doesn’t take long for most of humanity to be wiped out. It’s a simple premise that is expertly executed, to the point that I’m surprised nobod✅y has tried it before. And now, after two films (and with a prequel on the way), we have our very first game.
Surviving Against Aliens With Asthma Sounds Like A Really Bad Time
This week saw Saber release the very fir𝐆st trailer for The Road Ahead, and it lo⭕oks pretty cool. You appear to play a character who has been surviving in this world for a long time, and also appears to have asthma and needs to use an inhaler in order to avoid coughing fits. We all know they exist in a world where aliens will tear them to shreds for making the slightest little sound, so this isn’t an enviable long-term health condition to have. But it’s hard to feel sorry for them when one of the first things they do is flick a switch to turn the power of a massive building on, knowingly activate lights, doors, and other industrial equipment bound to make noise and attract the aliens. Surely you’ve been through the ringer enough times to realise this is a terrible idea? This is a video game though, so things like this are par for the course.
Upon activating the power and seeing a bunch of aliens storm in, our hero crouch𒊎es behind a window before glimpsing a nearby corpse, which then blurs the scene and h🐟as us reaching for the inhaler. To me, this suggests that you will need to manage exactly what you witness or experience in the environment in order to avoid startling yourself, similar to how Amnesia handles sanity and the way you perceive the world around you. This is a cool idea, and one I imagine a game like this will need, given it revolves around a single enemy.
But It Can Be Done, So Long As It Doesn’t Get Boring
You’re also in possession of a handheld device which tracks directional sound, similar to the motion detector found in Alien: Isolation. Once again, it’s an essential bit of kit for a game like this you will need in order to avoid frustration. But I think my biggest question is whether Saber will deliver a worthwhile🐽 emotional investment with its characters, since this is the glue that helꦜd both A Quiet Place Part 1&2 together.
Withꦅout it, you’re left with a generic 🌺flick with a creative central gimmick that could soon outstay its welcome. It will presumably have no or little spoken dialogue either, or integrate flashbacks that explain who our character is from a first-person perspective. I have a lot of questions, but mostly I’m pretty hopeful about this one.
What I a𒐪m curious about is how a game like this will deal with being caught, or what exactly the failure might be aside from getting killed within seconds, because we know these creatures show no mercy and will kill indiscriminately. The last thing I want is insta-fail stealth sections with no chance of escape, so perhaps we can craft tools to lure the monst🔜ers away or give us precious time to escape. Alternatively, a big part of the game could be figuring out how to kill them, or it could tie into the end of the second film where our heroes get the message out about exactly how to take them down.
Licensed games like this𝓡 are so often hit or miss, but when a property like A Quiet Place that is so perfectly suited to the medium comes along, I can’t help but take notice. No🐻w, here’s hoping it can deliver.
