However I thought this was of interest:
Original video located here. Accessed 16th June 2014
What could this be? It's hard to say as the people behind, The Chinese Room, said little beyond it's about the end of the world. But from the looks of it, it could be one of many things:
- It could be a post-apocalypse game that eschews shooting zombies for exploring an abandoned world
- It could be a religious themed game could, for once, be actually GOOD
- Or it could be the next step in atmospherics.
However even if this game shows some potential at this early stage, there is no escaping that this is by The Chinese Room. And for the uninitiated, these are the same people who made Dear Esther, a game infamous for being all about wandering around an environment (however well-rendered) with minimal gameplay and a weak narrative. A game infamous for wandering abound doing nothing that some people actually hesitate to call it an actual game.
Therefore my interest is tempered with caution - and rightly so. I will not fooled by a trailer that shows footage rather than gameplay or what the game wants to accomplish.
Still, it may be tempting to think The Chinese Room may have learned from their mistakes and may have delivered an actual game, but what are the chances of that happening?
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