Less examples of gaming than of the director's magnificently pretentious soul, if Heavy Rain's appetiser and Beyond's entree haven't sated your hunger for French sci-fi-guff, then this autumn's PC version of Detroit will ensure you've had a gutful of Cage. Still, it's never anything less than spectacular to look at, even if no longer state-of-the-art, and backed up by a typically bombastic Hans Zimmer score. Tethered to a spirit called Aiden, our unseen spectre could engage in Tom-peepery, interact with objects and generally scare the bejesus out of folk.Īs with Heavy Rain, the main issue here is a lack of gameplay, with players more voyeurs than participants, nudging the control stick in the direction of on-screen dots to prod Jodie into action. Juno meets Carrie in a cinematic thriller which grabbed headlines on release when canny hackers accessed CG renders of star Ellen Page in the nip – mercifully, no-one attempted the same for co-star Willem Dafoe.īeyond played out with lush production values in a lavishly mounted saga that follows Page's whining indie chick Jodie from stumbling child to action heroine.
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Already ported from PS3 to 4, this third gasp for the critic-dividing epic – stylish as hell, though choking on fromage – offers everything PlayStation puritans have come to expect from the Gallic auteur. And Cage's pursuit of the cinematic continued unabated with 2013's Beyond: Two Souls.
While little more than a fancy-pants Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book at its high-tech heart, Heavy Rain sure does look good. FBI agent Norman Jayden, scream queen Madison Paige and Ethan Mars (who must face a series of challenges pilfered from Saw to rescue his son) engage in a mix of everyday mundanity – including a hilariously meme-tastic sex scene – quick-time events and ham-fisted dialogue as they take on the Origami Killer. You'll laugh, you'll cry, but mostly you'll cringe, with Cage as your tour guide in a duet of cinematic tours de force that are flawed, fascinating and hokey as hell.Ģ010's Heavy Rain intertwined the lives of four people in a Se7en-esque PS3 potboiler. FRENCH auteur David Cage is renowned for his cinematic grandstanding: now, the PC set can get in on the action, as two of his stand-out PlayStation jaunts land on the format.