LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE: ONE LIFE, TWO SOULS
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls™ takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
Born with a...
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls™ takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
Born with a connection to a mysterious entity with incredible powers, Jodie is different.
Your actions will determine Jodie's fate as she faces extraordinary challenges, danger, and heart-wrenching loss on a journey to discover the truth of who she is.
Create an action-packed story through your choices and actions as you live her life – a girl born with a link to a supernatural entity called Aiden.
By playing as both Jodie and Aiden, you will face spectacular physical and psychological challenges to understand what truly lies… beyond.
TEST YOUR SKILLS WITH ‘ADVANCED EXPERIMENTS’
The original DLC mission from the PlayStation™ releases is included in the full PC game. The entire game is playable in two difficulty modes, and in Solo or Duo mode.
PLAY THE STORY THE WAY YOU WANT
Cinematic or chronological order? Select the way you want to experience the story, and even play in local co-op mode using two different controllers for each player – one to play as Jodie and the other to play as Aiden. Play the way you want to play.
FULLY OPTIMIZED FOR PC
Beyond: Two Souls is brought to PC with stunning visuals including 4K resolution, widescreen 21:9 compatibility, and 60 fps framerate.
The only bad thing I have to say about this game is the controls are not intuitive at all. While I get what they were trying to do here it just doesn't work too well. It's still playable and a good game.
So, first i will adress the controls which people are really complaning about. I played using an xbox one controller and although it can feel clunky sometimes, it is nowhere near to a point of impacting your gameplay seriously. Worst of worst you will get a little stuck because of the camera switch positions in small areas, and that its it. Also you have to remember it is a interactive movie, so things like that are to be expected in some degree (not that its an excuse).
The graphics are beautiful and really realistic, even for today standards. You can easily take some screenshots and think its real life. I remember playing the demo on the PS3 when it came out and how stunned i was, im getting the same reaction as before playing right now. It is really amazing what they achieved with this game regarding the graphics.
The characters are great especially Jodie and Nathan (Elliot Page and William Dafoe). They did an almost perfect job in the acting! But even the side characters are really well done, keeping the same level of quality as the main protagonists.
About the story i understand that some people may find it confusing since it keeps switching from past to future and vice versa, but now you can play it in the "right" order so thats no longer a problem. For me i think the story was great, very emotional and really outstanding from anything we had at the time, interesting from beggining to the end. It was really innovative and they did an amazing job as well.
I just wish we had a sequel since they leave it open in the end. The ending is epic and the future state of the game would be epic as well storywise.
Play, you wont regret it
This game is another David Cage banger, but probably the weakest out of all Quantic Dream titles. The story is great. The acting is phenomenal. The gameplay mechanic with Aiden is a good addition to the traditional Quantic Dream formula so you're doing more than QTEs and slowly walking. Really wish they would add a run button to these games though. The main problem is that as much as the game tries to convince you that they are lots of choices to be made, that is simply not true. Its still great if you're a David Cage fan though. If you don't like PC controls, then hook up a gamepad because like all other Quantic Dream games, that is how it was designed to be played.
David Cage's games are a weird thing. They're generally praised by people who don't really know better when it comes to storytelling, mostly because what makes them special is the amount of genuine player choice in them. There's no way to sugarcoat it: a game with good writing will usually have little in the way of meaningful choices, and a game with many choices will have its writing suffer.
This is generally the case for Cage's games. Lots of choice on what to do (the story will even continue if some characters die), with multiple endings available. This is great, but unfortunately the storytelling in these games tends to be preposterous. So when a game like this one comes out, where there's very little in the way of actual choice, most of it being on rails, you'd expect the story to be incredible. Unfortunately, this is probably his worst story yet.
Technically speaking there's nothing exceptionally jarring about the story (save for how disconnected some chapters are), it's just it's all been done so many times before and better. You can predict exactly what'll happen at every step because you've seen it so often. There's absolutely no effort at all put into the writing and it's a testament to the skill of the main stars that they can even make the painfully trite dialogue sound in any way engaging.
Heavy Rain certainly cheats when it comes to its story and characters, but at least it does SOMETHING. Beyond refuses to put the slightest effort. I can only recommend it if you have never seen more than three movies in your entire life (and even then chances are you'll still run into familiar territory here) or if you are a diehard Willem DaFoe fan and absolutely must have everything with him in it. Otherwise your money and time are better spent elsewhere.
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