New Beyond game appears truly real
The developer of Heavy Rain gets hyper-real with a new title starring a young Hollywood actress.
Quantic Dream, the first developer to speak at Sony's E3 2012 press conference, confirmed a new PlayStation 3 exclusive interactive psychological action thriller game named Beyond: Two Souls. The title uses a new game engine, and appeared similar to Quantic's previous work, Heavy Rain.
Quantic video game designer David Cage announced the game to the crowd of thousands, noting the title stars Hollywood actress Ellen Page as Jodie Holmes. In a real-time gameplay demo at E3, Quantic showed off Page's character using telekinetic powers to defend herself from attackers. The level of detail and accuracy in the facial animations of the video game character appeared far beyond the high level already set by Heavy Rain.
"For the first time in a video game, we will live the life of a character," Cage said.
CNET editor Scott Stein, planted at Sony's E3 press conference, noted the game "looks better than Heavy Rain. Significantly."
