The latest emotional action game from Quantic Dream and director David Cage, began to take shape when he happened upon a photo of Ellen Page and knew she was his main character, he said in an. Cage told Kotaku that Beyond started with the idea of making a game about death, a concept that came to him while he was attending the funeral for a close friend who had passed away. 'I started writing the first scene of Beyond: Two Souls and I asked myself, 'Who is my main character?' I thought she should have this strength inside her. She's courageous and she's brave,' Cage explained. 'But at the same time she is just a little girl.' After doing some searching, he found the following photo of Page at age 16, and it was 'exactly what I was looking for,' said Cage: Cage continued to write the Beyond script for the next year, and it ended up with 'pictures of Ellen all over the place.
'I began to realize that might be a problem,' Cage continued. 'Because I realized I was going to have to ask Ellen to be in the game.'
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Luckily for Cage, Page agreed to star in the game when the two first met in Los Angeles. Beyond: Two Souls, with Page as protagonist Jodie Holmes, will be released Oct. 8 on PlayStation 3.
As a small child, Jodie Holmes became a government lab rat due to her strange psychic powers caused by her link to an incorporeal psychic entity known as Aiden. Scientist Nathan Dawkins was chosen as her handler and tasked to study her, raise her and prepare her to join the Psy Ops military division as soon as she's of age. Having no friends, and being bullied and accused of witchcraft by every kid she ever tried to become friends with, Jodie grew attached to Nathan and became his surrogate daughter. Eventually, she joined the military only to become their pawn forced to commit criminal acts abroad for the supposed greater good. She also discovered that, since she can also channel the dead, the military will eventually probably force her to use all her powers to open a rift to the afterlife dimension, even though this could literally unleash Hell on Earth. Realizing that she will never be free, Jodie decides to run away like many times before.
However, wherever she goes, the military. From video game developer David Cage, maker of Heavy Rain and Indigo Prophecy, comes one of the most amazing and most entrancing video game experiences I have ever had in my entire life. Without mentioning any spoilers, I'll just say that this game carried me emotionally the whole way through, and gripped me the whole time.
Unlike most video games, this game stars actual actors, Ellen Page & Willem Dafoe. Page plays a girl names Jodie Holmes, a girl linked to a supernatural entity.
Dafoe plays a man named Nathan Hawkins, a scientist assigned to study her case. There's not much else I can say without giving away major plot details. Since the game plays out on a very large scale, it makes sure the player is invested by jumping around to different points of time. If the game followed a linear storytelling method, the segments would drag on. But this system gives the player a lot of flexibility, since no level is similar to the previous one. I don't usually look at performance by a mo-cap actor or voice overs, but this is a rare exception. Both Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe deliver exceptional performances, both should win some award at the GOTY shows this year.
This is also on a large part due to the phenomenal tech team Quantic Dream was working with that allowed the actors to show every facial expression, and every detail of the world around them to further captivate the player. The gameplay is fluid and rather exciting. Quantic has really stepped it up a notch with the gameplay, allowing for a control scheme that is easy to adapt to, and subtle. In the game, there are segments where you get to play as the entity Jodie is linked to, and these are very fun to play. The entity (which Jodie calls Aiden) can control various things in the world.
In some levels, it adds a puzzle game feel to it, giving Jodie a situation where Aidens abilities are used in creative ways. The soundtrack is beautifully composed, as with Quantics latest venture (Heavy Rain). It's also very emotional, bringing a very powerful reaction out of me. As to be expected from a Quantic Dream game, the shining quality is the story.
This is by far, the best storyline I have ever followed in a video game. You're captivated and involved in the story, and there are no levels I would classify as 'filler'.
Every section serves the story, and the story takes twists in ways I couldn't expect. Overall, Beyond: Two Souls is a rare game. One that came to me as a large surprise. And while the action oriented fans of the shooter genre will not be impressed by the strange thing called 'plot', It's an amazing narrative, one I will easily play again & again.