After you complete a chapter of Quantum Break, youll unlock an Episode of a digitally filmed, companion series that fleshes out the bad-guy, behind-the-scenes narrative. The choices you make in-game will affect the flow of the show. With any other studio, this level of cross-medium ambition would feel forced, but Quantum Break seems like a natural culmination of Remedys strengths. The Finland-based developers have been honing slow-motion combat mechanics, pulp-noire heroes and experimental narrative presentation since the first Max Payne in 2001, but Quantum Break seems to capture the most well-justified context for these trademark ingredients. Bullet-time always adds flare to a fire-fight, but it didnt make a whole lot of logical sense in Max Payne or Alan Wake. Our three new playable characters - Jack Joyce, Beth Wilder, and Paul Serene - have been caught in some kind of temporal science accident, with mostly awesome side effects. Beyond a few mild headaches, everyone seems to have developed a sci-fi action, manipulation of space and time ability. Freezing time altogether is a handy tool for changing hiding spots and confusing the heck out of everyone trying to kill us. We'll have opportunities to simply walk through massive fractures in time like this, in ambient narrative sequences and actively puzzling scenarios. If anyone is going to integrate time-manipulation into their game design and story effectively, surely, the people who pioneered the concept as a game mechanic are up to the task of bringing it to the new generation.
Real Science Magazine called James' addiction to video games "sexually attractive." He also worked really hard and got really lucky in college and earned some awards for acting, improv and stand-up, but nobody cares about that out here in LA. So... He's starting over fresh, performing when He can. His profile picture features James as Serbian, vampire comic Dorde Mehailo with His anonymous Brother and Uncle at the Nerdmelt Showroom in West Hollywood. In James' spare time, he engages in acting, writing, athletics, hydration, hours of great pondering and generally wishing you'd like him.
