Seeing a field of yellow light up when you use Jack’s Time Vision skill causes a sense of dread and kicks in my OCD of needing to find and read every single thing that is available, just to make sure I get it done. There are a ton of pick-ups and story elements that are told through emails and notes, and this is probably the only nitpick I had with the game, is that there gets to be a little too much to read at times, some areas are dense with story elements, and it kind of locks you down to one place for a little too long.
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The pacing is excellent, not full of enemy spawn closets, and playing this game with a mouse and keyboard isn’t too far off from using a controller, after using both though, the precision of mouse and keyboard was what sold me on that control method. The combat and gunplay hits all the right notes without being overly tedious or cheap, although the final boss battle is probably the only exception I would make, in that instance some of the deaths felt cheap and beyond my control, even with all of Jack’s super-powers available to me. Quantum Break also has that other thing going for it that Remedy is known for, Well-crafted gameplay. Remedy has done a wonderful job with their storytelling this time around, and doesn’t get too bogged down in time paradoxes or anything too nonsensical. Players are treated to a live action show in between major chapters of the game, so in addition to the roughly five hours of gameplay, there’s an additional two hours of video content that helps bookend a lot of the story elements, and it’s interesting to see how your trip through the game affects these episodes, for example, if you turn on a radio that’s reading an audio-book midway through the chapter, that radio playback will come in during the episode.
But here’s where Remedy deviates ever so slightly in their storytelling. Paul’s become a mad super-villain, and Jack had to stop him with his newly acquired powers that allow him to manipulate time, and function within ‘stutters’ where time seems to stand still. Paul’s got something big to show off, and it involves time travel, and the sci-fi tropes start running rampant and now we’ve got something that has essentially created ‘The End of Time,’ known as The Fracture. Jack Joyce is visiting his old friend Paul Serene at his lab on campus in the college that occupies idyllic Riverport. You can get a good synopsis of the story from Chuck’s review, but here’s the shorthand. It’s ultimately what lead me to enjoy Max Payne, Alan Wake, and now, Quantum Break. And it’s not that I don’t believe the hype, but it’s more that Remedy does such a good job in crafting a story and narrative, that I don’t want to run the risk of spoiling it for myself until I’m ready. However a recent refresh of my PC hardware has left me wanting to enjoy more games on my PC, and Quantum Break just happened to have a PC edition coming, so why the hell not give this one a shot? I’ve been pretty in the dark about this game, much like I am about Remedy’s other titles. You can check out his review here, I myself let the exclusive pass me by, simply because I had too many other titles to play at the time. Chuck went pretty hard for Quantum Break when it released on the Xbox One earlier this year.
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